VTech VS112-17 Cordless Phone for Home with Answering Machine, Call Blocking, Caller ID, Intercom and Connect to Cell

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Very nice home phone. Everyone uses their mobile more than a landline these days, but we call the UK a lot. It's also a bit more reliable.

Works great except I have too reseat main base bye turning it off and on.

Easy to install and good phones. I haven't tested the Bluetooth function but like these overall.

They function as the should, but you get what you pay for. They are harder to use than the phones that we previously owned. They are especially hard to navigate the menus and hard to answer in the dark if you don't have your glasses on, to easy to hang up on callers

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8/29/23 Update: Now when I have multiple voicemails I can't simply delete the whole lot by hitting the delete key twice. I have to go each message and delete them individually. This was not the case until yesterday. This phone system is absolutely the most regrettable purchase I've ever made!7/23/23 Update: I would not wish this phone onto my worst enemy!!! It is horrible beyond anything. I am now going to waste money throwing this garbage out and go back to using my old Panasonic set which the only reason I was getting rid of was the short battery life. Unfortunately, this brand new VTech set has even shorter battery life and a host of many, many other issues. The Panasonic set still works perfectly, I just have to recharge the handsets every day.I bought this set to replace our previous Panasonic set that also had the ability to connect cell phones to it. The older set's batteries started to go so I bought this VTech set. At first all was fine but in the last couple of months of using it (I've only been using it for 4 months), the battery life on the handsets is horrible. We barely use the phone and get perhaps 4-6 junk calls daily. Based on that we are recharging the batteries every couple of days. That is pretty bad for a brand new phone.Periodically we will go make a call and the handset will tell us that its not connected to the base, even though we are within 15 feet of the base. For this I usually swap out the handset with the one that is sitting on the base.Today we experienced a new problem. Went to make a call and no dial tone. Tried another handset and same thing. I attached out wired phone and did get dial one so confirmed that the issue was not with the phone service but with the VTech base unit. I unplugged it for 30 seconds, plugged it back in and let it "boot" up. After that we had dialtone.I really would stay clear from this phone set.

Bought this phone for the call block functionality. I am silently blocking 10-15 calls per day (as high as 25 in a day). I've had this phone for 2 months now and a long the way I've picked up a couple of things that may help others.My environment...My wife and I have our cell phones permanently forwarded to our home phone (VOIP - MagicJack). Why? The cell phones ring 6 times before the VTECH answering system picks up. If we're home, we use the VTECH phone as our cell reception is terrible.When we first got the phone..Connect via bluetooth and downloaded both our cell address books and had 256 phone numbers in the address book. Hint, you'll get any TEXT 5 digit numbers that may be in your address book as well. I went thru and cleaned these up. Learn how to fast-path thru your directory.Next (what I wish I knew) - DISCONNECT YOUR CELLPHONES from your bluetooth VTECH phone after you've downloaded the address book. The cell interface may be nice but it adds a lot of addition things you need to know and introduces a number if problems and confusing rings that you don't need. Some of the problems I've seen other users report on are similar to what I observed until I disconnected the cell/VTECH connection. There's a lot to learn with the basic phone usage.I use the address book, WHITE list and STAR name features and all work fine.Block list - I don't use this as most of the junk calls use random phone numbers in their calls. Blocking a number is almost useless unless you have that 'special' friend you want blocked.Observation - because I use VOIP (MagicJack, Vonage, etc), the scammers are using a technology to send their calls straight thru the VOIP service. This means they don't show up on any of your incoming call reports you get from your phone providers.If your provider is supplying you with the verification mark with the number (ie. [V] 111-1111), it's kind of useless. The scammers are already spoofing this as well.There's a lot to learn with these phones, start with just the basics. My 2 cents worth..