BT 84668 4600 Big Button Advanced Call Blocker Home Phone with Answer Machine, Trio Handset Pack, Black, White

These are up to BT’s high standard. They are easy to set up and have many useful features, especially call blocking. They are well designed and simple to use. Only moan would be having to look up the internet for instructions. I’d rather pay extra and get a booklet , but this is common practice now. Elderly people prefer a booklet, but phones are great.

Use:Got these for my gran after BT blamed her old phones for the reason her phone service kept going down. I had to buy them in a rush in case she needed to ring 999 in an emergency because the other phones stopped working.In end it was because BT's service had gone digital and the phones needed plugging into broadband router instead of separately into wall. Despite the unnecessary expense I'm still glad I got these phones as they're a little more practical and the batteries kept needing to be replaced every 2 years or so on the others.Size & Design:These are a lot bigger than the phones they replaced and stand out with their (cheapish) silver colour. I have looked at replacing the phones several times over the years but the previous high costs and looking for phone with separate buttons (not flat ones with no gaps between them) and lit buttons and screen and good reviews have been hard to trace.The phones are nice and big. They do have a curve to them which is a little strange - a bit like many phones before speaker functions were common to fit the profile of your face.Their size makes them easy to pick up as my grans struggles with her hands. The buttons are nice and big and the screen size is average. The screen is easy to read with different contrast settings and is lit by an orange light.My gran doesn't use the phone number storing features on phones or an answer machine as doesn't understand a lot and may accidentally press buttons and then not know what to do.There is an X in the middle to block numbers - as such it's a little worrying that this may be pressed by accident at some point - I would prefer the option of a customisable button that could be set to something else or disabled altogether.Quality:The phones are moulded and joined midway and look a little cheap and also feel light in weight so don't give the greatest sense of quality. The orange light also doesn't give a good a sense of quality - white would have been better but the text is easy to read and that's the main thing.Sound:There are several ring tones to choose from and these seem to be fairly loud for elderly people.There's also compatibility with hearing aids (if I can only persuade people to actually get them).The phone sounds themselves on the phone i.e. selection tones however are not very loud and aid elderly people in knowing they have pressed buttons.The speaker quality is ok and also seems very loud and loud enough for my gran.Menu:The phone were easy to navigate in set up and there's only 1 or 2 things I was unsure of so had to look up in the instructions.Charge:I don't know how long these last but they came with enough charge on them for me to set the phones up. The instructions also recommend to charge the phones for 12-16 hours? before use.Value:At £90 for 3 phones and an answer machine I think these are pretty good value!The build quality certainly isn't the highest I've ever seen but if you're only bothered about having something that works then I think they're good.In the past I've perhaps has to pay £55 for each phone in a set.Summary:Would I recommend - yes.I'm not ever so bothered about the build quality and put function and ease of use above it which are good.For my gran it's just what we needed and since I had to order them in a rush and didn't have time to read many of the reviews I'm happy.Time will tell and I'll update the review if there are any problems.

Easy to set upGood quality Phones

I previously had the three piece set of these telephones. But the volume was getting poor. So I bought the same phone with an extra set. Even with this new phone set, I am still finding it job to hear to hear callers. My mother is 84yrs old, & I bought the same set for it's large buttons, & ease of use

I don't think many people make landline phones these days, so the technology feels rather old. But at least this set hits all my basic requirements - sound is good, ring volume decent, big buttons etc. It was easy to set up, although I didn't bother with nuisance call set up, which may have been trickier.

We've previously used a Siemens Gigaset system for our home but found that its features were poor quality and difficult to use and having decided not to go down the route of VOIP, we looked around for a simpler DECT system for the four rooms the phones are installed in (we bought a 4th BT4600 handset as we were so pleased with the system).The plus points are that we able to setup and individually name all 4 phones within minutes and there weren't any problems with them connecting themselves to the base unit.Keypad is nice and large and the display clear and easy to read.Sound volume and quality on hands-free are quite good. I don’t have hearing problems so can’t comment as to whether it is good enough for someone who is hearing impaired.Size and weight we found to be ok but the size may be a little large if you have small or weak hands but that's the compromise for big buttons and display characters.Menus are fairly straight forward. Perhaps not perfect, but certainly better than many phones.The two big features of this phone we really like and have found extremely useful.First is the nuisance call blocker. It's simple but we've found it be quite effective in stopping nuisance callers. Quite simply if the callers telephone number isn't in the phone's directory, they will be asked to identify themselves. When you answer the phone, you get to hear what their response was. If you don't trust the caller then you can simply reject the call. Simple but effective enough to put off the spam caller.It won’t stop a robot caller but as a robot system can’t identify itself when asked and it won’t be able to press the # key it’s not going to get very far.Second. At bottom of the handset is the ‘Record’ button. Press it at anytime to record your conversation (records both parties voices).Negatives.This phone doesn’t have any means of transferring data to/from your PC, such as your contacts list. Handy if you want transfer your Outlook contacts or to use your own music files for ring tones.Limited choice of ringtones.The callers telephone number scrolls around the screen making it impossible to read. If the caller isn’t in your phone directory, then at least you can see the area code they’re calling from.As a footnote. Some reviewers have complained about the sound quality and the display. I wonder if they know that there is actually a menu option to adjust the tone and also one for display settings!!!

Very good buy. So many functions- excellent.