PanasonicKX-TG6823EB Trio DECT Cordless Telephone Set with Answer Machine

Easy to program and use . Call blocking useful against unwanted calls. Ring volume can be put quite high and conversations easy to understand. All round not a bad phone for the price.

I bought this unit to replace my old Panasonic equivalent, which was still going strong, but after 5 years of faithful service the buttons are very difficult to use, due to wear and tear.First impressions are that the build quality is ever-so-slightly inferior to the old model. The old one stood up on it's own, the new one is "modelled like a pebble, with curved round edges", I guess in an effort to make electronic devices less dated and angular, which I guess is no bad thing. It's just annoying that it won't stand up, lying down on it's back the speaker outlet is covered and therefore the ringer is muffled significantly. The display, buttons, and base are practically identical. The base is slightly smaller and lighter, with a stand protruding from the rear of the unit. The usual answerphone controls are present, along with a message counter (something the old one didn't have), showing clearly that you have new messages, the old one flashed to show a message, but unless you delete all messages straight away, there was no way of knowing how many were new/were on there already.Generally no real concerns about build, the important thing is the audio aspects surely? Well, I'm afraid to say that like many others I feel the sound quality is inferior to the old unit. Voices sound muffled and background noise is amplified far more (like TV's or radios), there is a "Noise Reduction" button, but it doesn't work very well to be honest, just makes the voice on the other end quieter. I have tried turning the speaker volume up to the maximum but that doesn't do a great deal. As far as I can tell, Panasonic have done this in an effort to reduce power consumption. The old unit worked at crazy distances from the base unit, but chewed through the battery life as a result. You were lucky to get 3 days out of it with general use, if you forgot to replace in the cradle. As a direct comparison I have left this unit in the living room for 5 days, using a normal amount of around 2 hours or so a day, it's still going strong with 40% battery life left. I have enabled "Low power mode" which reduces power by 90% apparently, I haven't noticed a huge drop in performance, but a couple of times when the wife has been standing directly in front of the base unit, there is a fair amount of interference and signal breakup.It seems strange that Panasonic would change a perfectly good design, in favour of an inferior one, but I guess it's all about POWER these days! To be fair the phone works just fine, calls are pretty standard, but I have noticed that I do have to ask people to repeat themselves more often, especially when speaking to people with thick accents, as these tend to become more muffled than most. To summarise:Positives = Battery life, Number of ringtones, Answerphone features (remote access/control), Clear display, Call barring (needs caller ID service to work)Negatives = Slightly muffled sound, not free-standing anymore, highly sensitive microphone picks up EVERYTHING in the room.Basically, if you have owned an older version of this model, like me; you may be disappointed. If purchasing this unit for the first time, I'm sure you won't notice these minor flaws, as it is a perfectly functional phone, well designed with an abundance of quality features.

Bought the 4 phone version. Well packaged. Easy to set up. Still reading through the booklet, but not using all it's possibilities. Excellent info window, easy to read (black on white). So far so good.

Easy to set up and use, good quality sound. Excellent value for money.

Easy to install. Looks good. Works well.

Good set of phones. Setting up extra functions takes a while reading and understanding all the instructions, and I still havn’t managed to turn off the intermittent ringer indicating a waiting message, of which there are non! Hence the 4 rating, else it would be 5.

Great quality, easy to set up and use

I wanted to like these phones, I really did.We needed to replace our ould Panasonic cordless phones - at least 15, maybe 20 years old that had started to become troublesome - buttons being very difficult to use (press repeatedly until it works!)Nice looking handsets, fairly basic, nothing flashy. Just what we wanted really.Spent quite a while putting our numbers into a handset - tedious at the best of times. Quite rewarding that the other handsets (we bouught a triple pack) were able to access this, negating the need to have to do this with the other two handsets. It seems, however that the other handsets can only access the phone numbers on the first handset, they aren't copied across.A nice touch is that the handests can be named - for example 'Kitchen', 'Office', 'Bedroom', etc Another nice touch (which our old phones didn't have) is an illuminated keyboard.Our old Panasonic cordless phones were bomb-proof and very reliable.Why only 3 stars then?Of the three handsets, one had a fault on speakerphone. The sound and display glitched for several seconds after pressing the speakerphone button, then settled. As this was discovered 'just out of the box' we hadn't had a chance to test the call quality, so cannot comment to that.Sadly, these were returned. Shame really as they seemed to be ideal.Panasoic quality doesn't seem to be what it was.