Philips SE7452B Enhanced High DefVoice Digital Dual Cordless Phone Answer Machine by Philips
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Digital camera reviews of Philips SE7452B Enhanced High DefVoice Digital Dual Cordless Phone Answer Machine
Digital camera Review: Average phone
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this phone because it boasted of increased sound clarity. I didn't find this to be the case. A couple of friends thought the voice sounded a little "echo-y" on their end. The speaker phone function is ordinary. It's a pretty and streamlined phone, but ringtones are limited, it is too many steps to add numbers to the phonebook, and it overall is just of average quality. Not bad, but nothing that justifies the higher price. The phone I switched to is a Panasonic, and it's a better phone in my opinion at a lower price. Especially the feature of a caller ID announcement. I find it very useful if I'm in another room or am cooking or something to know without looking at the phone itself if it's a call I have to answer at that moment or someone I can call back in a minute or two.Digital camera Review: Batteries don't last and quality only OK
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought these phones last September and in less than 60 days they were holding a battery charge of 45 minutes. How irritating that is. Now on of the phone screens are black - won't show calls, etc. The keys don't work well, typically have to dial a number more than once to get it on the screen - hard to use, hard to maintain and hard to justify the price.
Digital camera Review: Beautiful, but horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
I wouldn't recommend this phone to anyone. Moreover, based on my experience with this phone, I would never recommend a Philips phone to anyone.
The phone looks beautiful, but it's actually a horrible piece of equipment.
The handset keypad is very slow to respond when you press keys - makes dialling a number and exercise in restraint. G o s l o w !!! Good luck trying to do that in an emergency. Don't rely on this phone to call 911.
The handset has to be rebooted on occassion (by taking the batteries out) because, upon taking the handset out of the charging cradle, the handset does not respond to key presses. Apparently it's little tiny operating system has it's own blue screen of death.
One of the biggest failings is that the handset thinks the batteries are not charged, but they are. Taking the batteries out and reinserting them will solve that problem until the next time (typically, several times per week). Again, don't rely on this phone to make an emergency phone call.
Transferring a call to a second handset is not straightforward, which is a problem when the handset you use to answer the call thinks the batteries are not charged, when they are, in fact, charged. You will find this out in a hurry when you answer an important phone call and are immediately warned by the handset that the batteries are low, even though you just removed it from the charging cradle. Don't rely on this phone if you need to take an important incoming call.
Overall, a terrible user interface and terrible implementation of the software. No matter how pretty Philips made this phone, it's readily apparent that the didn't spend nearly enough time figuring out how to make it work right. I would expect all of their products to be just as bad.
I would give this a "-5" star rating if I could.
Digital camera Review: Best Cordless
Summary: 5 Stars
I am using an SE7451B as well as an SE7450B (bought later). The SE7450B is an additional handset with a charging base but no base station - it uses the same base station as the SE7451B for communication and therefore is just another phone on the same phone line. Registering the second handset with the base is easy and quick but you do have to read the manual because you have to follow the steps in the right sequence and you have to hold down buttons that would behave differently if you just pressed them. You can also buy the two handsets and one base together as a package in SE7452B, if you need two handsets right away.
For my home phone, I have a traditional line from AT&T, and for my home office I use Vonage because of the addtional features I can get for a low price (my favorite is the Simulring feature). I am using these Philips phones with the Vonage line.
Positives:
1. No interference. Dect 6.0 is great. I got rid of a set of Panasonic 2.4GHz and got this phone - and all interference with the WiFi and the wireless video baby monitor are gone.
2. HiDef really works. The sound quality is just simply amazing for a telephone - unlike any other phone I have ever used, you get a very broad dyanamic range of the human voice.
3. Works well with Vonage. I make a lot of international calls and with some other phones there would be a 2 second delay between when I spoke and when the person at the other end hears it. When I started using this phone, that delay seems to be gone - now it is as good as a domestic phone call (All this on Vonage).
4. The speaker phone is the best yet. It is comparable in quality to a polycom star-shaped speaker phones one uses in offices (except that you can't talk across a large room - you still need to be near the phone which is ok for a home office.
5. Mute works. I considered the Siemens S450/S455 and E450/E455 but the lack of a mute button turned me away. Yes, the hold works on the Siemens, and you can turn off the hold music, but the idea of a mute is so that you can still listen in on a call which the hold function does not do.
6. Ability to copy phone book entries from a SIM card is very handy - you don't have to key in hundreds of phone numbers. I usally keep all my contact information in outlook which syncs with my windows mobile smartphone. Then I use the copy to SIM feature of the phone to copy the numbers to the SIM. Then pop the SIM card into the base station. Make sure to read the instruction manual.
7. The two handsets and the base station are always in sync. For example, I just need to set the clock one one handset. Also, if I enter a phone number in the phonebook of one handset, it immediately shows in the other.
8. The intercom and the baby monitor features are very nice to have and they work well. With the intercom, you can actually forward a call from one handset to another.
9. I like having a battery life indicator. The signal strength is also a nice to have for those days when I venture out too far in the back yard.
10. I am going to repeat this because it is that good: the speaker phone is just outstanding!
Deltas:
1. This is a nitpicky thing, but since main color display turns off to save battery life, you can't tell if you are on mute or not (during a conference call for example) without pushing a button to turn on the display. It would have been nice to have the "missed call" led indicator do double duty as a mute indicator during a call, may be in a different color.
I will post an update if I find anything new.
Digital camera Review: Best wall-hanging DECT currently on market
Summary: 5 Stars
I was in the market to replace our home phones and found my solution in the Philips SE7452B.
The key benefits for me are:
1) Truly wall-mountable. This phone base easily mounts on the wall, protruding only about 2". It is slightly more than the GE 27909EE1, but the handset on the Philips is *far* more comfortable (the GE one is like holding a smooth brick, btw). The only other wall-mount DECT option that seems to be currently on the market is from Panasonic, but it seemed nothing more than a small, awkward shelf.
2) DECT. Oddly, they do not put this in the product descriptor and on the Philips website they don't mention it at all, but these really are DECT 6.0 phones. I *love* not having to type in phone numbers across multiple phones, or having to place extra handsets where there are wall jacks. This technology is fabulous and the sound quality is superb, with no echoing or loss of volume when multiple sets are being used. The phones work equally well indoors as out in the yard.
3) Intuitive setup. You don't really need to look at the manual. These phones are idiot proof, with very logical menus and easy to see message counters.
4) Keypad locks! To be honest, I didn't know how fabulous this would be until I discovered it on the phone. With a curious 2-year old wandering about, I'll never get another phone without them.
Quibbles:
1)For some reason, I was not able to use my SIM card in the phone reader. I actually wound up calling in for a replacement, thinking that there was something wrong with the first unit sent. Both Philips and Beach Audio were super nice, easy and fast about responding. But as the second unit posed the same problem, I suspect my old SIM card is at fault, rather than this phone. Still, I appreciated only having to enter the info into one phone: with the touch of a few buttons, the same info was instantly (and exactly) transferred to the other handset.
2)Wish the holder for the extra handset had a little more weight to it. While it doesn't tip over anywhere near as easily as our old Dualphone (which was *obnoxious*), it could have been designed with more stability.
Overall: These are marvellous phones. I'm really pleased with my purchase and would strongly recommend them to anyone else in the market for cordless phones.