Siemens Gigaset Designer Digital Phone with Color Display (S795)

Overall I LOVE this new Siemens cordless phone. I had to update a couple 5.8ghz phones due to old age. I first bought and kept a new ATT model..that was just $59 with an additional handset and answering machine. The ATT is actually quite good, though WAY boring and too simplistic for my taste. This is where this Siemens S795 comes in. I wanted a phone that had to sound GREAT both on my end, and to people I call. This S795 answers THAT call..sounds fantastic.., great range too!

I wanted a phone I could "customize". This is where Siemens blows away all the other companies in my opinion. You can go so far as to silence the ringer between any hours you choose so you no need constantly flip on/off the ringer each night.

What I like most though is you can assign different pictures AND ringers for your callers. When my brother calls for example..HIS REAL picture shows up on this phone..plus a custom ringer I gave ONLY to him. This to me is actually very...Read more

I have this phone for 3 months. Every thing was great until the answering machine stopped working. I contacted customer service by phone more than 5 times. and every time, I got a different answer on how they are going to address the problem. However, every time I call, they ask me what is the problem with phone. As if they don't keep a log of what is going on. Every time you call they tell you we will get back to you within 24-hours after we contact the hotline to fix this urgent problem. Then they disappear. You call again. Its groundhog day all over for the past month. Basically the phone is great until you have a problem with it. You are stock with 130 phone that does not work and no customer service help except for aplogies. Its seems their customer service personall have been told to keep appologizing for inconvenient until the customer goes away.

I love this phone, except for one thing. I own an older Siemens Gigaset, and this is a vast improvement. Lighter, great colors, great features,great music for ringers, and the Eco-Dect low radiation option is the real reason I purchased. The only problem is that for some bizarre reason, they did not build in a way to answer call-waiting calls. They do show up both visibly and audibly, but there's no button (hard or soft) that allows you to accept the call. I called Siemens customer service twice, only to learn that this feature (pretty basic, no?) isn't available on this model! It does work on an internal intercom call, but not on external calls. What a design goof! So if you see a call come in from someone to whom you wish to talk, you have to end your first call and then call back the other person. Otherwise, it's a great phone.