( 95 reviews )
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Posted: Aug 17 2009
unit works well and is fairly easy to use. sound is good. But the menu functionality requires too many steps to get to the phone book and find a number. I purchased this because I have another Panasonic with a very easy menu system and thought this would be the same, except it has two lines in. Why don't the manufacturers just use one system? otherwise, the unit is fine.
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Posted: Jul 30 2009
I've had this phone for about a month. I like the phone's many features, especially the speaker capability built into the handsets, and would buy it again. However, there are a few things, one especially, that Panasonic could improve on. (a)Missed call list - While for some things, the handsets coordinate with each other (e.g., phone #s entered into one handset can easily be copied to all other handsets; date/time set on one handset sets it on all), when a call is answered using another phone in the house, it shows as a "missed call" on ALL handsets. IOW, the handsets do not recognize that the call was answered. Even worse, a call answered on one handset records as a missed call on ALL other handsets. In addition, deleting missed calls from one handset does NOT remove them for the others; you must delete them individually from each handset. The phone can have up to 8 handsets. If I needed more than the 2 handsets that came with it, this malfunction would cause me not to buy the phone. It's the #1 thing Panasonic needs to fix. (b)The clarity of the speaker for the base unit answering machine is poor, to the point that it's often difficult or impossible to understand the person's name or the phone number they left. Luckily, unless the caller blocks their ID, the handset captures the number as a missed call, so you can get it from that, but it may not show the person's name, only part of a company name. (c)Although the phone is advertised as a "5.8GHz Digital Gigarange", it's not necessarily "gigarange"; depends on where you put the base unit. I have the base in my basement office. The location probably accounts for the very short handset range, which is pretty much limited to the confines of the house. The manual says to put the base unit "high"; e.g., on the 2nd floor of a 2-story, but I have to have it in the office because I have an intelligent fax connected to it that automatically picks up when it "hears" the fax signal. I did an experiment where I put the unit on the 2nd floor, and the range increased dramatically (~200%). However, I also compared it's range to a 20-year-old Panasonic 900MHz cordless, and the new phone's range is only about 30' more than the old phone. So if you need a LOT of range on the handsets, determine whether it will be convenient or even possible to put the base in a high position. (d)The handsets are small (1 7/8" wide by 1 1/8" thick); my hand is big (palm alone is 4" wide x 4 1/4" long), so the handsets are not particularly comfortable. Panasonic could improve the comfort by putting soft rubber along the edge and around part of the back. If you go shopping for a 2-line phone, you will discover that there's not much out there and few choices in the brick-and-mortar stores (Best Buys, Staples, Office Depot). Reviews of other 2-line phones show that they all have their quirks, some pretty serious. The KX-TG6702B is a well short of perfect, but probably better than most.
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( 0 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 14 2009
Panasonic KX-TD7896, 2.4GHz Multi-Line Wireless Phone In this age of so many electronic devices failing out of the box or not quite operating at advertised ability, amazingly enough, this Panasonic product works perfectly as advertised. I have a resort in iron country where radio signals get lost in the iron content in the ground. This 2 line phone has a range that exceeds a quarter mile. Similar phones by Uniden lost contact outside the office door. Models by Sony failed to work out of the box and no one would stand behind them including Sony who no longer manufactured the phones they just sold me. The only wish we have is for a two button quick dial on the hand-sets, a minor inconvienience.
