Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: 940se@mather1.af.mil (Pete Brown) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: My Wife & a cordless phone Message-ID: Date: 22 May 89 16:11:33 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 174, message 4 of 4 >From: Blake Farenthold >Subject: My Wife & a cordless phone > ... (deleted stuff)... >Any tips on what to look for? What to stay away from? Basicaly I'm not >overly worried about price, I just want one that sounds good. I had a bad experience with a UNIDEN cordless... non-user-replaceable batteries kept failing. I spent as much in shipping it back to South- ern California as I did to buy the thing! About a year ago, bought an AT&T 5200 which has worked like a charm: batteries ARE user-replaceable (but haven't needed to yet,) two channels which are user-selectable from the remote, excellent signal quality, a fully-charged battery lasts about a week, no spurious noises on the line (like the UNIDEN had!), no neighbors on the line, etc. The only problem I've encountered is this: the system generates one of 4096 "security codes" when you remove it from the charger/base on a "random" basis; on occasion, the handset has gotten out of sync with the base - and all control is lost until I cycle it through the base. All in all, I'm happy as a clam with the 5200, despite its being an AT&T product! :-) Good luck!