Motorola SD4561 Digital Cordless System Phone with Answering

Product Review

The hardworking SD4561 combines cordless convenience with a digital answering machine. You'll enjoy advanced features like caller ID with visual call waiting, hands-free intercom, and a 50 name phone book, plus the integrated answering machine is accessible from any handset in your phone system. On the go? You can forward your messages to your cell phone!Optional devices let you expand your handset with base even farther. Add home monitoring capabilities with the wireless camera/intercom module and cordless video-audio expansion handset or integrate your compatible Motorola cell phone into the phone system with the cell phone dock module.For added convenience, you can easily add handsets to any room in your home or office with the compatible SD4501 cordless expansion handset.

Product Features

Add up to 8 cordless devices per base, with no additional phone jack required
Does not interfere with wireless home networking devices
Caller ID with visual call waiting lets you see incoming caller's name and number before you answer
Long battery life (up to approximately 6 hours talk time, approximately 6 days standby time)
15 different melody ring tones can be personalized to identify incoming callers

Accessories

Home Phone Tunes HPT001 Ringboxx

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(13 customer reviews)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Terrible telephone, December 16, 2006

William Clark "watcoh" (Dublin. OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motorola SD4561 Digital Cordless System Phone with Answering Machine, SD4500 Series (Office Product)

This seems like a nice idea, but Motorola's excution is terrible. The phones now have a battery life that can barely last one reasonabley long call. The sound quality is average, at best, and they drop calls willy-nilly. I would never have bought these phones knowing this, and I will be avoiding Motorola for a long time to come.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Looks nice, lot of nice features, a couple issues that ruined it for me., May 30, 2006

Kelley Pittman (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motorola SD4561 Digital Cordless System Phone with Answering Machine, SD4500 Series (Office Product)

I'd have to agree with the jazz guy's review. There are some design flaws here. I did find out how to change the # of rings on the answering machine when I called the service line. You go to devices under menu and choose answer base, then there is an option to change it there.

As stated above, there is no way to turn off or change the volume on the base ringer. This defeats the volume control on the handset.

They state on the box that 15 ringtones can be used to identify incoming callers. This really means you can choose 1 ringtone for everyone in your phone book and another for everyone else. I expected to set a ringtone for each person. Not possible.

Lastly, there is no speed dial. Just an option to choose from your phonebook which often takes more effort than dialing the number. For these reasons, I will be heading back to the store today to exchange. I should have stuck with Uniden. Had a great one for 5+ years.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Best Phone, March 16, 2006

Bhavik B. Patel "Bhavik" (Anaheim,CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Motorola SD4561 Digital Cordless System Phone with Answering Machine, SD4500 Series (Office Product)

its really nice phone...i wanted a phone with everything ..I got it at 55 $ which has Answering machine,caller id,speaker phone ..I also got free handset with it..Sound quality is good... no intereference with wireless devices.. I have my router just after the phone..Satisfied with it as expected