Motorola SD4591 Digital Corded/Cordless System Phone with Answering Machine and Keypad in Base, SD4500 Series

Not even a year later and most of the buttons on the handset don't work.

My very first cell phone was Motorola, and it served me great, so I became attached to the brand based on that experience ,and for that reason alone bought Motorola SD4591 Digital Corded/Cordless System. As we've put the wireless network in house the cordless phone started playing tricks. The battery life got very short very soon too. I was told I need to get different batteries NiH instead of NiCD. Naturally the microwave was playing the tricks on cordless too. As we have two lines in house and was told by several people to move to 5.8Hz 2 line phone I decided to get Motorola MD7091 5.8GHz Digital 2-line Phone and remained loyal to Motorola. And boy was I wrong again. What others are saying about caller ID not showing as soon as I have another phone on the same line besides Motorola MD 7091 is true in my case too. I don't get it does Motorola expect us to switch phones to their system now around the house if we want to used one of their phones??? This is really cheap trick...Read more

When I bought the Motorola I was looking for a corded (for security) phone with an answering machine and a speaker. What I was finding were either high end models with lots of bells and whistles that I didn't need or junk phones that didn't work well--or that broke after a couple of months of use.

This one has the bells and whistles and has lasted now a couple of months. The corded unit has a speaker with excellent clarity, a backlit menu with a directory that's easy to learn and intuitive to use, and good voice quality on the answering machine. It also doesn't take up much space on a very crowded desk. The cordless handset is a bit more cumbersome to use to retrieve messages and it needs to be upright to use it as a speaker phone because the speaker is in the back. But those are minor inconveniences for a good inexpensive phone.
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DEC. 2008 UPDATE

Now a couple of years later, like others I'm finding many messages...Read more