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Best Review: Panasonic KXTG7875S DECT 6.0 5-Handset High Quality Phone System with Answering Capability - Let me start this review by saying that my 900mHz Panasonic phone system that I couldn't kill worked beautifully; I just wanted more cordless handsets and couldn't add any. So, I purchased the Panasonic KX-TG7873S (model # on box was TG-7873;this review also applies to TG7873/4/5. Note: When the operating instructions booklet is 95 pages including the front/back covers, you know that this is not a simple, cordless phone. While the ability to link two cell phones* to this system is fabulous along with independent alarms per handset, verbal caller ID and numerous other features, the non-intuitive set-up of phone features and easy, basic functionality that is missing from this phone system made me rate this item as a "3."*Another reviewer of Panasonic link to cell phone systems said these phones are not compatible with the iPhone 5. Check Panasonic's compatability list before buying to ensure your cell is listed.Panasonic, take note:1. Volume on handset earpiece which only goes up 3 steps (4 levels) can be too low. Had difficulty hearing some voice mail outgoing messages when I dialed other people I call often. Good luck if you have any background noise or music in your home! Hooked up old phone - volume was louder and OM's could be heard just fine.2. No hold button. You have to press the menu key (very small button on other side of handset) twice to enable hold. Who designed this? Isn't the "hold" feature an integral part of every phone since wired AT&T trimline phones came out (which are still sold on eBay)? Why hit a key twice to enable hold, which did not "take" a few times when I did it? C'mon Panasonic. You can do better.3. Handset size (smaller than Panasonic Model KX-TG7745S) is a bit small to comfortably hold phone between ear and shoulder. Doesn't everyone do this whenever they are in the kitchen, making dinner? And, the handset is not shaped to follow any facial contours -- it's totally straight. So, when you try to crook the phone next to your ear, you cannot hear the person very well because the handset shifts position. Maybe it's because I move around a lot when I cook. Even so, I am not doing jumping jacks, so the phone should stay put.4. Charging bases can be tipped over real easily if you hit the phone by mistake. Cheap, cheap, cheap. Guess Panasonic couldn't afford to weight the plastic charging bases and the plastic base unit for this system. (Bases for TG7743/4/5 are a bit larger and slightly weighted so they don't tip over as easily as TG7873.)Also, power cords for the charging bases should be longer. The very thin cords are 6'10" long. Also, the cords are hard-wired into the charging bases. So, if one becomes loose or breaks, you'll have to buy a new base. Note: When you want to buy another handset, Panasonic supplies the charging base, but I don't know if you can buy just the base if the cord breaks. (TG7873 has cords that connect to bases with sturdy L-jacks.)5. Handset keypad is illuminated strangely. Instead of having clear keys where the numbers are illuminated by the backlight, the phone I received had black keys which are not illuminated. There is an amber backlight behind the keypad that lights up the space around the keys, but the illumination doesn't have the same intensity across the keypad. My Panasonic 900mHz system was much easier to read at night with the room lights off because it had clear keys. (Amazon's picture of the TG7873S that I ordered shows orange-numbered keys; the unit I received [TG-7873] has white-numbered keys.) Note: TG7743S/7745S have handsets with clear keys which are illuminated by the backlight.6. Setting various functions is tedious because you cannot just scroll through features using the Menu button and intuitively find what you want. While you can set some features using the Menu button, you have to use the operating guide to enable, set or change most others. Once you find the feature in the operating guide that you want, you have to press the Menu button and enter a 3-digit code to access the desired feature and then go through the steps to set or enable it. Took a while to find how to turn off verbal caller ID, never mind finding the code to change the voice mail dial-in number when I changed tel providers. Be prepared!7. With Magic Jack VOIP in the house, the network ethernet/LAN cable and the phone line must be connected to the VOIP gizmo before it's plugged in for power; Magic Jack does not operate using wireless LAN. Since I had to move my kitchen phone to my home office to use the LAN connection, I was left with a handset in my kitchen and missed being able to use a speaker wall phone. Note: There is no hardware to connect handsets to a wall phone mount that exists in the kitchens of many homes built before 1980 and keeping a phone on the counter in a small kitchen gets in the way of food prep. While the handsets have a speakerphone feature, the handsets only work when removed from the charging base; you cannot use speakerphone with the handset sitting in the base. Now, who wants to hold a phone when prepping dinner? Panasonic should develop an attachment to connect a handset to a kitchen wall phone jack for customers who have them or enable the handsets sitting in the charging base to function whenever speakerphone is engaged.4/29/13 update: Panasonic told a customer in another review on its website to use two screws to affix the charging base to the wall. So much for a vendor adjusting to customer needs.8. The area for names in the contact list/address book should be a smaller point size or it should be longer to accommodate more letters. I ran out of room when entering business names and couples where I wanted to list both parties' first names with the surname. Also, caller ID info seems to be too big for the display area on the phone and everything is capitalized, which eats up more display area than U/L case.9. The ring selections sound nothing like a "ma bell" phone. Really? What's up with that, Panasonic? The 16 ring styles (1 for Xmas) are not the best and sound like computer-generated ring tones from the 80s or 90s, and I didn't want any of them. I wanted a "clean" phone ring like my 900mHz phone had, not a bunch of contenders.(Update 4/29/13: Just remembered where I have heard these ring tones before ... as sample ring tones for a Motorola Razr Flip phone (remember them?). OMG, the ring tones are from the 90s!10. Nice to have feature: There should be a way to keep the handset or the base dimly illuminated at night so that you can find the phone without turning on a lamp since the LCD backlight times out. There'd be no battery drain if the charging base lit up because the base runs on electricity.While this phone has many of the bells and whistles you could want, I plan to exchange this for Panasonic Model KX-TG7745S because the handsets are larger, volume setting on the handsets has one more level than on Panasonic KX-TG7873/4/5, and the handset keypad keys are clear so the keys are illuminated by the backlight. I hope I like that system better than the TG7873/4/5. Don't get me wrong. The TG7873/4/5 is a great telephone system; it's just missing some features I wanted in a home phone. At least I didn't have the cell phone pairing problem noted above.
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