VTech Super Long Range 5 Handset DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone for Home with Answering Machine, 2300 ft Range, Call Blocking, Bluetooth, Headset Jack, Power Backup, Intercom, Expandable to 12 HS

I got this phone for my parents who still have a landline. The display is larger and easier to read than their last system. Adding numbers to the phone book isn’t too difficult (though I did have to show my mom as it wasn’t as simple as push-this-one-button). Best feature is the spam filter and permanent call blocker. A security system requires caller to say their name and push the pound button before the call will ring through. When the call is answered the recorded name is replayed and you have the choice to accept the call, accept the call and add the caller to a “safe caller” list so they can just dial and ring past the system in the future, send the call to voicemail, or permanently block the number. It has empowered my parents to feel more confident with the people they can choose to engage with on the phone. The one potential draw back to this security feature is that some official callers might not get the option to leave a name and press pound (depending on how their dialing system is up). For instance, my mother’s doctor uses a physician referral system that couldn’t get through until we added the number first. 8/10 for display size, 8/10 for ring volume, 9/10 for call-block and security system…and so vastly superior to their last cordless phones that I will never go back. (I bought the system with 5 cordless phones and left two of them in the box. If/when any of three currently in operation get permanently lost or have battery issues, I can “take a spare” from the box without interrupting their phone service or making them potentially learn yet another new system :D )

Sound quality is great it's easy to set up. It has call blocking that i like alot. Worth the money

The phone works great. But Amazon says that you can expand it the phone to 12 headsets. I called customer support and that is not true. I need 6 hand sets and this will not work for me. Customer support told me to purchase the VTech IS8151-5 . I'll have to return these phones and puchase the VTech IS8151-5 Otherwise the phone is good. No problem with the volume and speaker and phone calls.

VTech 5 handset have great features. I definitely love the call blocking feature, it works

Absolutely the worst cordless phones I have ever purchased. No ability to store a number by saving one after it has called. Spotty reception. Biggest issue is the hit or miss function of placing a call. It is unclear after 2 years whether you are to press the home green button in order to make a call. I kid you not. I say unclear because it can go both ways. You dial the number, hit the green button and a call is placed. Sometimes, you dial the number and then hit the home button and it will hang up forcing you to re-enter the number. Other times, you have to hit the home button, then dial the number and it will proceed. Unnecessarily convoluted. Much prefer other phones that our neighbors have. I will go back to Panasonic.

Plugged it in. It says "No date/time". The instructions say "Enter the date", but doing that with the keypad doesn't work. I bet it has lots of fancy features. Too bad they didn't get the first step implemented properly. Once I got past setting the time, I'd say this product works nicely. Audio quality is good and we never get interference. Having said that, the user interface is hard to use: * "Home" means answer the phone * "Menu" means select a menu option, but also means "ok" or "select" in certain contexts * When in a menu option doing something (eg. looking at the caller ID log), you have to use the "Off" button to go back to the previous menu. Hitting left on the big cursor toggle button doesn't do anything. Also, I called Vtech phone support about adding extra handsets. They say you can't add extra handsets (past 5) for this product (product id IS8129-5). Note, that the product description for his product says, "Expandable to 12 HS". So that's an error, you can't expand the IS8129-5 past the 5 phones it comes with. But according to Vtech phone support you could purchase model number IS8151-5 (base + 5 handsets?) and IS8100 (additional handset?) as an alternative to this model.

Some people, like me, like to have a land line. I have an iphone also and understand that point of view. However my iphone is off when I’m home and phones like this are perfect to have. This way I have a phone close by where ever I am. These phones work great around the house.

Very disappointed. I ordered a multi-line phone, which to me, means 2 or more lines. I have two land lines here. This has 1 line for phone and also connects to my cell. All well and good, but I get terrible cell reception here and I do a good number of conference calls. I do not appreciate the (in my mind) mis-representation off the website description. It does say multi-line, but not 2-line. This is not functional for me day-to-day. Got to return and start shopping again.

100% recomendable

Lo malo del producto es que las instrucciones no vienen en español, siendo que la venta se hace en americana latina.

Los teléfonos tienen acabados de calidad, pero el timbre es muy bajo.

Están muy bien. Solo que no se puede cambiar el nombre de cada teléfono para poder identificar cada teléfono. Es una pena porque tenía un teléfono 4 años más viejo que este y si se podía. Solo eso le veo mal.

Es mentira lo que dice la descripción del producto. El modelo que llega no permite conectar más de los 5 teléfonos que vienen, aunque la descripción dice que puede hasta 12. Esto fue verificado en la misma base al querer registrar un sexto teléfono.