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Excellent Phone
We bought this phone for my mother-in-law who is to phones the exact opposite of Will Rogers to people. She never met one she liked. This one, however, has enough adjustment range in both volume and tone, has a simple to operate answering machine and a cordless handset so that she actually seems to like it. It's an excellent phone for anyone who has trouble hearing on a...
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Limited Clarity
This is a great cordless phone as long as you don't wander more than one room away from the charging station. The range of the phone is my biggest complaint. I literally find it difficult to go more than one room away without loosing reception. For the price, you think they would do something to improve this feature!
This review is from: Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230) (Electronics)
We bought this phone for my mother-in-law who is to phones the exact opposite of Will Rogers to people. She never met one she liked. This one, however, has enough adjustment range in both volume and tone, has a simple to operate answering machine and a cordless handset so that she actually seems to like it. It's an excellent phone for anyone who has trouble hearing on a "regular" phone.
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This is a great cordless phone as long as you don't wander more than one room away from the charging station. The range of the phone is my biggest complaint. I literally find it difficult to go more than one room away without loosing reception. For the price, you think they would do something to improve this feature!
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I bought this phone for my mother who is very hard of hearing but refuses to use hearing aids. I no longer have to spend our phone conversation screaming and not being heard. My parents are not very tech savy but did not have much difficulty setting this us. They have also called customer service for the phone a few times and found them to be very helpful also.
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We've been through two of these phones now and most of the time they don't ring. Other phones in our house wlll ring but not this one. Bought it for my mother who has to wear hearing aids. The volume is good but the clarity is not that good. Would not recommend this phone.
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This review is from: Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230) (Electronics)
My 86 year old Gram does NOT like changes. But after her phone from 1970 started falling apart, I talked her into getting a new one. After careful searching, this is the phone I thought would work best for her. It has all the features she wanted and FINALLY she can hear me over the phone. It is simple enough to learn to use, and was a very smooth transition. I highly recommend this phone.
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This review is from: Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230) (Electronics)
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The power supply needed to be replaced once, a few months after I bought it. Then came the really chronic problems. On many occasions, the phone just plain would not ring. Other times, the ring was intermittent, as though the "ring signal" was being interrupted.
The biggest problem is the handset becoming non-functional. The phone rings, you pick it up, hit the TALK button, and nobody's there. When this failure mode is going on, it's also impossible to get a dial tone. The solution? Pull out the battery for one minute, then set the handset back on the cradle. Then it beeps to indicate it's working correctly.
Sometimes, doing even that won't work, and it's necessary to both remove the battery and unplug the power for a moment.
This is a real pain in the butt. Why Clarity/Plantronics' engineers haven't fixed this is beyond me. Again, this is the third identical phone from them; they have replaced it twice.
This handset problem is now occurring a few times daily, and this is unacceptable. I'm currently searching for a replacement.
Update 7/8/09: I neglected to mention that the Caller ID feature quit working on my current C-4230. LOL
Due to its chronic problems, I can't recommend the Clarity C4230...but I wish I could.
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We got this phone for my mother. She has enjoyed it and it has helped. After a little over a year the batteries are going out. They can't be purchased locally (we tried many stores). You must order them from a subcontractor of Clarity and they are $25 each. We will get them. The phone is worth it but it is a hidden cost one should know about.
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The phone is well constructed, has lots of features but unfortunately we could not get rid of the static on the line. I called Clarity to find out if we were doing something wrong and they thought it might be the phone itself but the tech support person said that maybe we had too many electronics in the room. I don't think we do but then he said with the amplification, you can hear more static than you might be able to hear on other phones. I've had plenty of cordless phones installed in my house and none had this static problem so I ended up having to return it. My 85 year old mother who would be one of the main people using the phone didn't like the display. I think if you had an area where static isn't a problem it would be a great phone. I wouldn't NOT recommend it, but beware, static could be a problem. Because of Amazon's return policy, I was able to return the phone with no hassles.
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I found this phone through my hearing aid provider, "Hearing Best" . Checked it out on line and purchased it on line because it was $40.00 Cheaper. I did give my provider an opportunity to match the price but no respone.
The phone works quite well, with good support from Clarity but is a little complicated to set up. Requires the manual help to complete the job. Has all the functions any other quality phone supports and does provide "high volume with good clarity". The phone works on a multiple phone system with other phones. I purchased the mode with a recorder. It works well but the answering system will not function unless voice mail is removed from the phone system.
I would purchase this phone again if I needed another phone.
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