AT&T EP590-2 - 5.8GHz 2-Line Cordless Expansion Handset

Although a lot of this has been said by others, I thought it important to weigh in. My previous system was a Panasonic TGX4000B that finally gave up the ghost. It was better designed and had more features, but poorer audio quality. Almost the reverse of this unit. I have been using this unit since May, so I am pretty used to its flaws and good points. Here are my peeves:

* You can't delete messages while you are listening to them. You have to go back and listen to them again to delete.

* Same problems deleting Caller ID displays. It is a 2-3 button process.

* As stated by others, you really cannot know when you are interrupting someone on the other line.

* Almost every phone I have used has a timer for the call. I just assumed there was one. Silly me. Makes billing clients a little more artistic.

* As stated by others, the outgoing message quality stinks.

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This is a great phone on a great system. Clear, noise free and perfect reception from start of conversation to finish.

This handset is comfortable to use and easy to link to the base station (though the code I had to enter fooled me for a minute, since it was supposed to be a numeric code, yet a pound sign (#) appeared in it). I like the feature of being able to name the stations so that it's easy to page one from another, knowing exactly where it's supposed to be.