We have an issue with phones in the house. CK thinks they make great basketballs. Seems like everytime we get a cordless phone, it ends up getting dribbled on the floor like a basketball. A little rough on the life expectance of the phone.
The current one has gotten to the point where we never know if we can hear when we pick it up. So it is time for a new one.
Dudette and CK went out today to purchase it. We researched which one had the features we wanted, without the problems inherent in cordless phones.
So we are now in the process of getting the new one set up and charged. By Sunday morning it should be up and going. We got a second remote handset to go with it. The second remote location hand set is for CK. We purchased an extended warranty for that one. If she destroys it, they replace it. If she destroys OURS, we replace HER.
Fair enough.
Darn expensive basketballs.
Addendum to answer a good question:
We picked up an AT&T model 5870. With second station remote. It should be fully charged today so we will probably finish ALL the set-up stuff and give it a test run. It calls for a 12 hour "first charge" to get it going.
We checked in Consumer Reports and a few other mags before deciding on this one. It has the 5.8 GHz range as not it interfere with the wireless nteworking. One of the things ALL the articles warned about was the interference factor of the 2.8 GHz phones on other electronics.
It has all sorts of bells and whistles. Not that we need them, just we couldn't get what we wanted in a phone without all the other baggage that came with it. Still, It's COOL.
Now all we have to do is figure out how to use it to our advantage.
The old phone is replacing the "last" old phone in the garage. That one is toast, totally broken. The "new" old phone, I will fix so the ear-piece speaker will work. Figured out the issue with it is, CK likes to use the "ear-bud" hands-free attachment. The assembly the jack fits into controls the ear speaker. And it is messed up from constant abuse and droppage (basketball dribbling). So I plan to bypass the circuitry and make it an "hand held only" model.
Before you run out to buy one of these, I have to warn you, they are expensive. And the operators manual for it is bigger than the manual that came with our computers. A real cure for insomnia.
Oh. The phone has one really great feature. It has a storage compartment for a spare handset battery. It keeps the battery carged in case you need a spare quickly. It will also keep the base unit powered up in case of a power outage. With the weather out here, that is a plus. I can't tell you how many times the neighbors borrowed our cell phones when the power went out. At least we have the common sense to keep at least one corded phone handy for just such emergencies.
So, what brand did you get?
Posted by: Bogie | November 16, 2003 at 01:40 AM
hello...
i have long since given up on cordless phones...they seem to find a way to hide from me right before they are to be juiced up...usually it's a blessing in disguise...though others tend to disagree...
Posted by: yuk ha | November 16, 2003 at 09:49 PM
I need to get one of those new cordless ones that comes with two others....you know, the kind that look like cell phones. See, our phone jack downstairs doesn't work...and we can't hear the phone ringing when it's upstairs, which means I could be called and given the option of having a day off from work and I'd never know it because I couldn't hear the phone ringing. Why don't I just carry the cordless downstairs? Because I always drop the stupid thing and make the batteries fall out, break the antenna, or accidentally slam it into the wall as I'm walking (okay, okay! I'm NOT graceful!)
At one point in my life, I went through 6 cordless phones in a single year.
Posted by: Da Goddess | November 17, 2003 at 12:30 AM
"I could be called and given the option of having a day off from work" - yeah, like that is going to happen. They'll be calling you to come in for an extra shift more likely!
Posted by: bogie | November 17, 2003 at 04:35 AM
Day off or extra shift, either way. This phone allows up to 6 extra remote handsets. (we have one extra, for the basement) As for the charged battery thing, the spare battery you can buy for the base unit, stays charged until you need it, and/or it will keep the base powered up in case of power outage.
I'm with Bogie, they would probably call for giving an extra shift ON, not OFF.
Posted by: Wichi Dude | November 17, 2003 at 04:53 AM