GE 5.8 GHz Cordless Phone (25830GE3) Digital Call Waiting/Caller ID

Comment: This has to be the worst phone ever made. After using it for about several months, it stopped working with the word "Searching" now constantly showing on the display. What it may be searching for, one may never know. Thinking that maybe the battery was bad, I bought a new battery. This made absolutely no difference. Occassionally it will "find" itself, but will invariably drop the signal midway thru a converssation, or have such very poor reception you can't hear the person on the other end - or they can't hear you and hang up. DO NOT BUY this phone - unless you like wasting your money.

Comment: This is a horrible phone and does not last. Do not buy!

Comment: I am was very disaapointed with this phone. It has several serious flaws that make the phone pretty useless. 1) Battery lasts for about 20 mins talk time. 2) loss of signal (SEARCHING...) even thought the phone is less than 10 feet from the base. 3) Really annoyingly loud ringer, and YOU CAN NOT CHANGE THE RINGER or the volume! Needless to say I'm looking for a new phone :)

Comment: I presently own a 900DSS and a 2.4DSS which allow me to walk to my mailbox and around the garden (several hundred yards). I figured the 5.8DSS would give me even more range. Not so! I can go about 80ft, from my workshop to my back door, before losing the signal. I located and returned the unit to the manufacturer and received a replacement - which performed no better. It's an attractive phone, has good features and clarity - but not range, which is important to me.

Comment: This phone has a much better range than my crappy old 900MHz phone, and I can walk all through the house, and around it and still get good reception.

However, the sound quality is poor, with lots of quiet but disturbing background static. I have also experienced this in the only other "digital" phone I've owned, so I suspect a problem in the conversion from analog to digital and back.

I also noticed some of the fade-in/fade-out effect while listening to some nice hold music, and some pops and clicks.

The phone has a headset jack, but my standard 2.5mm headset doesn't work with it. My headset works with my two other cordless phones, so either there's a problem with this particular phone, or it takes a special proprietary plug.