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Current landlines phone is about 15 years old and display screen is getting more difficult to read due to rubbish back light and probably my eyesight too (had eye test 2 weeks ago).
I'm now on the lookout for a new landline phone, unfortunately when you visit shops like curry's etc the display screen is usually a sticker so you don't get to see the real effect before you buy.

Any recommendations on your own phones which have a bright and easy to read display screen? Button size is not important.

Thanks
 
I have an old Logik that I got from currys years ago but they don't seen to do it anymore, they have a BT 2200 for £25.00 which does not look bad.
Check their returns policy if its in stock and not on display I think you can return if its not suitable
 
We have a BT Freestyle 750 at work with a big display and buttons. As it also has an induction coupler for hearing aids I suspect it was designed for customers of a certain age! It's a good, solid but rather large phone - seems to be expensive new on Amazon, but reasonably priced reconditioned, there and on ebay (it's a discontinued model).
 
I've always had Panasonic dect phones. Seem to work ok.
 
Panasonic dect here too, good clear display. We have 2 and they update each other’s stored numbers.
 
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We got the BT 8500 set with call guardian on and they're brilliant - don't get bugged by any cold calls now :)
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Surprising to hear that people still use landlines.
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When you have a unreliable mobile signal in my house like i have no matter who the provider is then a landline is the better option. If imobile connection was 100% reliable then I'd dump the landlines in a minute
 
frank said:
When you have a unreliable mobile signal in my house like i have no matter who the provider is then a landline is the better option. If imobile connection was 100% reliable then I'd dump the landlines in a minute
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A lot of mobile phones now do wifi calling. If the mobile phone signal is poor or doesn't exist, the calls and texts are routed via your home wifi. Of course that still means a landline connection at home.
 
Can't recommend any model - our BT one is only adequate.

If I get another on one thing I'll make sure that it has an easily visible notification of a new message. Ours shows the number of message so if a new message arrives the display of the number of message will be increased but I'd prefer a flashing indication of a new message. Seems the Siemens Gigaset phones are well liked.

Dave
 
BT 8500's have been mentioned before. I have them too and like the fact that you can call block on them.

Good clear screen and fantastic battery life too.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
A lot of mobile phones now do wifi calling. If the mobile phone signal is poor or doesn't exist, the calls and texts are routed via your home wifi. Of course that still means a landline connection at home.
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Unless you can get vm cable. No phone line needed.

I think Vodafone do a no phone line internet package. But they're a complete shower of a company.
 
neil_g said:
Unless you can get vm cable. No phone line needed.

I think Vodafone do a no phone line internet package. But they're a complete shower of a company.
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While true that you can have VM cable without phone their plans are structured so that there is no saving if you don’t have their phone line, at least that was true when I signed up.
 
andyred said:
We got the BT 8500 set with call guardian on and they're brilliant - don't get bugged by any cold calls now :)
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Yup. Call Guardian is super. Well worth the extra. We bought it after asking on here. Not had a single spam call since installing it. Ours is the BT 8600 and it's excellent. A nice clear display that I can read without my glasses!
 
sphexx said:
While true that you can have VM cable without phone their plans are structured so that there is no saving if you don’t have their phone line, at least that was true when I signed up.
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Yes very true they really want people to buy into having the phone as well. When I phoned them to have our landline removed from our package (we haven't made an outbound call on our landline in over 2 years :D) they offered us a discount which made our package less than what it would have been taking the landline off. :thinking:
 
Decided to go for the Panasonic KX-TGD322EB which seems to have all I want and as my old panasonic is almost 15 yrs old and still working hopefully the new one will be just as reliable.
I liked the look of the BT 8600 but browsing the Virgin Media phone forum it seems like some BT handsets users have problems using them on VM, something about voltage differences on BT handsets.

Thanks all who replied.
 
frank said:
Decided to go for the Panasonic KX-TGD322EB which seems to have all I want and as my old panasonic is almost 15 yrs old and still working hopefully the new one will be just as reliable.
I liked the look of the BT 8600 but browsing the Virgin Media phone forum it seems like some BT handsets users have problems using them on VM, something about voltage differences on BT handsets.

Thanks all who replied.
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Just in case anyone reads this thread in the future, I'll just add that I've never had a problem using the BT8500 handsets with Virgin, 1 base is plugged into the Virgin landline and the other set into the Virgin Superhub 3 for a VOIP service.
 
How about a nice Trimphone or my personal favourite the Silver Jubilee phone in Balmoral Blue, came with a separate bell set to mount on the skirting board.

Spent many hours fixing telephones when you still rented the instrument from the GPO/British Telecom.
Unlike today all parts were replaceable, dials, transmitters, receivers and even the plastic label cover on the front.
 
frank said:
Decided to go for the Panasonic KX-TGD322EB which seems to have all I want and as my old panasonic is almost 15 yrs old and still working hopefully the new one will be just as reliable.
I liked the look of the BT 8600 but browsing the Virgin Media phone forum it seems like some BT handsets users have problems using them on VM, something about voltage differences on BT handsets.

Thanks all who replied.
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I have no problems and I'm on Virgin, but as long as your happy with your choice thats the main thing (y)
 
We use one of the Gigaset units. Afraid can’t remember the mode but small with silver/chrome case. Swapped the base unit to an IP version and also use Skype and SIPGate with it too. All pretty seamless
Will dig out the model numbers if anyone is interested when I get back home
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Which is why I mentioned Wi-fi calling.
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Dave1 said:
If you have a decent phone it penetrates anywhere there's a WiFi signal these days ;).
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Which still means, generally - and VM excepted, a landline/copper path of some description. If you're out in the sticks there is little option.

WiFi telephony is very much VOIP - not all IP providers offer this as a choice (unless at a premium). I do recall BT offering it to me once - the call charges were higher than those of a conventional land-line.

O2 offered TU for free as a WiFi option but it disappeared - maybe because it was losing Mobile revenue!
 
chuckles said:
Which still means, generally - and VM excepted, a landline/copper path of some description. If you're out in the sticks there is little option.

WiFi telephony is very much VOIP - not all IP providers offer this as a choice (unless at a premium). I do recall BT offering it to me once - the call charges were higher than those of a conventional land-line.

O2 offered TU for free as a WiFi option but it disappeared - maybe because it was losing Mobile revenue!
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O2 stopped developing the app because more and more handsets have the feature built in. So, they haven’t stopped offering WiFi calling, it’s just offered in a different way.
 
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Which still means, generally - and VM excepted, a landline/copper path of some description. If you're out in the sticks there is little option.

WiFi telephony is very much VOIP - not all IP providers offer this as a choice (unless at a premium). I do recall BT offering it to me once - the call charges were higher than those of a conventional land-line.

O2 offered TU for free as a WiFi option but it disappeared - maybe because it was losing Mobile revenue!
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I don't think you understand what the WiFiCalling being discussed is.

It's a native ability built into many mobile phones that allows the phone to 'see' WiFi networks as if they were mobile masts, you can make and receive calls (and texts where the network has correctly set it up) just like you're actually connected to a network mast. No apps involved, and certainly nothing offered by landline providers.

As an example, there is no mobile signal in my local Tesco, using their free WiFi my phone will connect as if it has a conventional signal and I can make/receive calls and texts exactly as if I was outside with a standard cellular signal.
 
Dave1 said:
I don't think you understand what the WiFiCalling being discussed is
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Really? 26 years in PO/BT - 16 years with Nokia - 6 years with a supplier to Vodafone? I think I understand a little bit more than just WiFi calling.
 
chuckles said:
Really? 26 years in PO/BT - 16 years with Nokia - 6 years with a supplier to Vodafone? I think I understand a little bit more than just WiFi calling.
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I doubt you actually do, it's got absolutely nothing to with either the P.O. or BT, that's probably where you got so confused. I mean you even thought BT offered it to you for your landline...

Here is EE's help page, if you'd like a read:
http://ee.co.uk/help/help-new/getti...your-phone-features/how-do-i-use-wifi-calling

WiFiCalling isn't what you thought, it's as simple as that, once again WiFiCalling is a new feature built into some modern mobile phones, it doesn't use an app and it's got nothing to do with the P.O. or BT.

VoLTE and WiFiCalling are routed through IMS, VoLTE actually establishes an additional connection to IMS while WiFiCalling establishes a VPN connection to the IMS network. VoLTE and WiFiCalling should be able to hand over to each other as required (for eg. walking out of a WiFi zone and the call routing back to VoLTE).

The TUGo app was simply an app that allowed making calls on an open internet connection ala Skype or WhatsApp.

Just noticed you claim some sort of affiliation to Vodafone, that isn't surprising, as they are the network that managed to completely balls up their WiFiCalling rollout by messing up the IMS stack and disallowing sms usage while connected to WiFi and somehow not getting WiFiCalling <->VoLTE handover working :facepalm:. Hopefully they'll have it fixed sometime this year, as you consider yourself the P.O./BT expert have you considered going in and offering to sort out their issues? ;)
 
Dave1 said:
I mean you even thought BT offered it to you for your landline...
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When I took up their ISP solution (i was trying to be economical with my words) - which just happens to use a copper path (landline path!)

I won't argue for argument's sake - I just don't have the time or inclination - I certainly won't react (any more) to your trolling!


Dave1 said:
]ust noticed you claim some sort of affiliation to Vodafone, that isn't surprising, as they are the network that managed to completely balls up their WiFiCalling
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Are you associating me with their incompentency? In which case I take an immediate dislike to your tone and accusation!
 
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iv'e been using one of these for the last few years and it's turned out to be a good phone

https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-phones/phones-with-wi-fi/kx-prw120ew.html

it's as close to a concept that BT had rumoured a good few years ago when BT mobile was still in existence
BT advertised a mobile phone that would also double up as your landline phone when you got into calling range of you property and was a BT mobile phone when out of range
at the time the idea interested me but i don't think BT ever produced a commercial mobile handset that worked as a dual phone so to speak or at least if they did i was not aware of it's release

many years later i came across the panasonic landline phone that offered a good alternative that uses your mobile smart phone which connects to your landline phone via wifi and allows you to make or receive calls as if your using the landline handset within the wifi range of your property
we tend to have our mobile phones close to us most of the time which makes the feature quite convenient


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WKgV1NVhzo
 
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