GE - True Digital Technology - Cordless Phone

I am very satisfied with this product, although I was disappointed to discover three things about it:

1. It doesn't have a lighted dial. The image in the ad created the impression, for me, that the dial was lighted. I should have thought to look more closely. Not lighted dial can be more inconvenient than one would imagine; although, of course, there is always putting on a light or bringing the cordless handset to a more lighted area. (Once someone is accustomed to the phone's keypad a lighted dial may not be all that crucial.)

2. The phone is described as "black" in the ad. While the front of the phone is black, the back (and part of the sides) of it is charcoal gray.

3. Also, because I couldn't see a picture of it from all sides, I assumed it was a straight, flat, candy-bar phone. The top section of the back of the phone is tapered in toward the top. The design is an ergonomic-appearing one. A side view shows that it is narrower...Read more

I bought this phone sight unseen because I love my old GE phone and this phone seemed to have the features I wanted. It turns out that this phone is missing a headset jack so it cannot be used with a headset. This seems like a major flaw to me and is a basic requirement that almost all phones have so I cannot give it a high rating, particularly since my older model GE phone did have a jack.