Panasonic 5.8 GHZ Single Handset System Expandable Digital Cordless Answering System (KX-TG4321B)
Panasonic KX-TG4321B 5.8GHz Expandable Digital Cordless Answering System
Packed with contemporary features, the Panasonic KX-TG4321B 5.8 GHz Expandable Cordless Digital Answering Phone System includes handy call waiting and caller ID features, an all-digital answering machine with 12 minutes of recording time, a 50-station shared phonebook, and a digital handset speakerphone. With the Panasonic answering system, you'll never miss important calls, even when the ringer is off. The integrated light-up indicator featured at the base of the handset's antenna will flash quickly when an incoming call is in progress, and will flash slowly to let you know you have a new message. Should you choose to expand the answering system to include additional handsets, each handset can be programmed to ring or simply flash at your discretion. The system is compatible with up to three additional handsets (for a total of four). In addition to the standard call waiting feature, this system comes with call waiting caller ID2, a feature that allows you to see who's calling you if you're already taking a call. Other great features include a 50-station shared phonebook, a handy charge indicator, a backlit LCD display, and a convenient intercom feature. Providing up to five hours of cordless talk time, the handset's rechargeable Ni-MH battery offers up to 11 days of uncharged standby battery life. What's in the Box
Base station, and one handset.
Panasonic 5.8 GHZ Single Handset System Expandable Digital Cordless Answering System (KX-TG4321B) Accessories
Panasonic 5.8 GHZ Single Handset System Expandable Digital Cordless Answering System (KX-TG4321B) Reviews
Bought this phone for parents and they love it, but can never tell when they have a message on the answering machine, as it only had a little led that blinks and no auditory indicator.
The base was exactly what I had expected it to be. It came in really good condition, considering that I bought it used. One small problem was the batteries that it came with were not Panasonic batteries, so it wouldn't work. I was lucky to have two stored away and was able to make the swap. After that it worked like a dream.
This Panasonic is a great little cordless speaker phone. It's small and cute ans works well.
I really wanted to like this phone, from the moment I began to use it, the sound wasn't clear and there was constant static. After less than a year, it just started shutting off out of nowhere (usually when I had to make a phone call). I am sending it back to Panasonic.
I purchased two of these phones to install on Linksys Analog VOIP adapters in my home. After deploying Power over Ethernet (POE) 802.3AF IP phones from Grandstream and Astra, and configuring the VOIP PBX with 3 POTS lines
in a Analog to Digital trunk card, and configuring QOS on my primary home switch (A Cisco 3550), and deploying POE switches where needed with QOS, the house is now wired with all VOIP ethernet based phones. I# did try using SIP based WIFI phones, but with encryption, they just are not ready yet. So I installed two Cisco Linksys PAP2T Analog to SIP Digital converters that talk proxy to the PBX via SIP. Each PAP2T will accept 2 regular phones as each has 2 FXS ports.
Ironically all my IP phones, the IVR's, Trunking, Web conferencing works
great. But my Panasonic analog phones do not.
One had problems after a month of use. Press speaker phone button, the phone instantly resets. The other issue is when trying to dial someone, if the phone is busy, and you hang up and redial as you would with any phone sometimes you get a "Line Busy", or a "Cannot connect to base".
The second phone functions well in the same room as the base. It can become
a problem if I walk to the next room, (20 feet through 2 walls), or downstairs, 20 feet, as the room below is directly beneath the receiver.
While talking with no warning I lose the transmission channel to the base
ersulting in my ability to hear my remote speaker, but he can not hear me.
Resetting the base and phone solves the problem for now.
The irony is that my wife is angry that the phones are unreliable and is
blaming it on the "complex PBX", which is working fine! She can see the first phone reset when the speaker phone button is pushed, but was convinced it was a problem with the PBX or Linksys adapter. So I took the second phone and remove one of my phone lines from the PBX.
I plugged the phone base directly in to the Telco Jack on my Fios ONT.
So now it was running on the line the old 2.4Ghz phone system was running
on. Same problem.
BTW, my VOIP PBX is replacing a dead Panasonic 4 line 2.4Ghz phone system that served me well. But these panasonic phones have really poisoned my
view of Panasonic. I will try another brand and eat these. I am very surprised as there was a lot of positive ratings from Amazon customers and I usually do well following the ratings from other users, expecially when there are many (> 40) when I puchased them and the rating is 4 stars....
I have seen quite a few people that have had problems also however.
Some have discussed the problems in their review. Followed up on their review 2, and 3 times to say how bad it was, but yet rated it 4 stars???? Whats with that?? If everyone did that, the stars would be completely meaningless...
I recommend trying another manufacturer. There are just too many other brands to take the chance. One phone bad, OK. Two.... Not so good...
*** UPDATE:
I switched to VTech DECT 6.0 model DS6111, and purchased directly from VTECH. These phones do not need a
desk phone, they are standalone phones, no answering machine, but has a "find me" button, and has a voice mail
indicator which lights if your telco provides you with voicemail (which many companies do today).
This phone works throughout my house and even to the back of my back yard which is about 130 feet from the inside base. They only support 5 frequencies, but that should not be a problem. You can buy up to 4 phones that can
share one phone line, and intercom one another. In my case I am using 4 as extensions on a DLINK Fxs port, and this works great as well. It is simple, has ability to speed dial/store local, and mute button (some companies leave this off for some reason...), and speaker phone button. At $39 each, it is a great deal. If you need the answering machine, check out the Website, there are models in the DS611X line that have the answering machine base as well... Much better. I tossed the Panasonic units out in "e-cycle trash" as it was too late to return them, and I would not sell them on ebay when i had trouble with them. So they are now $200 worth of E-trash being recycled.
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