Suggestions on a BASIC Cordless Phone for home?
 

OK, I need to replace an aging cordless phone at home.

I've used a few others and found the quality and/or reception to be nasty on some.

Does anyone have a suggestion on a BASIC cordless phone model that they like?

No special features are desired. Just a cheap yet reliable cordless phone....

Anything DECT 6.0 should be fine. I use Panasonic cordless phones and they are the best, speaker phone, etc. You can use them as a basic cordless phone, but they have advanced features that are there if you want it.

I too moved to the DECT phones, whatever was on sale at BJ's at the time, think it was five stations, the base with the answering machine, and chargers all for $50 or something.

Watch the really cheap ones, if you have wireless they may be on the same frequency and cause problems.

I've been happy with a variety of AT&T cordless phones. I've had my current ones for so long I don't even know if they still make them.

+1 for Pansonic, although I'm UK based very please with mine which I bought 6 years ago and still going strong.

AT&T branded those phones from some other manufacturer; look inside the battery well or other location to see who the actual manufacturer was. :-:

From Walmart, as basic as one can get:
Vtech DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone With Caller ID - 1 Handset, $24.00 delivered.

Can't even use a headset to talk.....but it's connected to my cable modem and works like a charm!

Another +1 for Panasonic. IMO worth a premium over other well rated brands. My base station is one inch from my wireless DSL /modem router and two inches from a Dell desktop, and its quiet as a church mouse. I've had mixed luck with VTech and AT&T, and bad luck with GE.

DECT 6.0
 

Any phone that supports the DECT 6.0 standard. You might want to grab a set (usually two or three handsets bundled together) at Costco or Sam's Club for around $50.

Sometimes OfficeMax has on sale a single generic DECT 6.0 cordless phone for $10 - $20.

Just to answer the question that hasn't been asked...

DECT phones use licensed frequencies.
They will not interfere with WiFi (neither the 2.4GHz nor the 5.8GHz bands)

At Christmas I had a hard time finding a single basic cordless phone. Everything I found was either multiple handset or had an answering machine included. I finally found a uniden for $12 at CVS of all places

Wirelessly posted (Nokia N97 / Palm TX: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-3/12.2.024; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) BrowserNG7.1.12344)

Whats your experience with some of the higher end Panasonic models...

Im looking for something that is a 2 line base with multiple handset options and if possible a door monitor/intercom option.

Ideas...?

Wirelessly posted (Nokia N97 / Palm TX: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.4; Series60/5.0 NokiaN97-3/12.2.024; Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1; en-us) AppleWebKit/525 (KHTML, like Gecko) BrowserNG7.1.12344)

one other question... are the AC/DC power adapters that come with these Panasonic phones 100-240V or are they just 110V...?

This one should work for you. Not sure about the door monitor / intercom though.

I like Panasonic phones because they use standard AAA rechargeable batteries, and generally have all the features one would need on a phone - speakerphone, mute, headset plug, intercom to each other / base, advanced phonebook / contacts / ringer options.

The one I have it says the input is 120v.