This phone can work during household AC power loss, using stored power from the handset's battery to operate. It has very good voice quality when talking and excellent when listening. We found this phone very good to use. It has very good message quality and answerer ease of use. It also has a generous 30-minute message recording time and can conference handset to handset, like an intercom. This phone serves as a wireless monitoring system. It Comes with a garage door sensor, other sensors are available. The sensors helps you to monitor your garage door, in-house door, window, medicine cabinet, or an area around your house. This keeps you notified if the monitored object is open or closed, or someone has accessed an area that is off-limits.
Phone features include side volume control, a lighted keypad, which is essential if using the phone in a dark room, talking caller id, any-key answer and a voice-mail indicator. To save energy and extend battery life, the phone automatically reduces radio power when its base is nearby. It has chain dialing( helpful if you frequently use calling cards), multilingual menus and is conferencing capable with an outside line. It's Energy Star compliant. Additionally, the answerer has an audible new message alert and you can record the answerer greeting using a handset.
On the downside,the phone and answerer setups are overly complicated. Handset lacks auto talk and a headset jack, which is a useful feature for hands-free operation. Answerer lacks announce-only mode.
