Motorola… Sucks!
OK, do not buy any home phones from Motorola Corp.
The reason, the Motorola MD481 cordless expandable phone system with digital answering machine. We have had it for a year and a half and it is already whooped. Let me give you a laundry list:
BASE:
Answering machine volume lousy.
Speakerphone lousy volume
No noise cancelling
Buttons are laid out poorly
HANDSETS:
Overall volume (speaker and receiver) lousy
Ringer volume lousy
Buttons on handset keypads are mushy and unresponsive
Buttons on handset easy to get dirty and uncleanable
No noise cancelling
Can’t sync time and caller id with the base
Must sync handsets from the base instead of from the handsets (?)
Transfering a call from one handset to another unituitive
Big, bulky and heavy
I bought a NEW handset on ebaY to add to the system, it is only 6 months old and already it is non-functional. My wife paid over $130 for this system when she got it, and she regrets every minute of it.
I have replaced it with a Uniden DCT648-3 with three handsets included, and it already looks better made and durable. I have already set up the answering system, and it is noticibly louder than the Moto. Once the handsets charge, I will let you know how they fare, although they are looking good.
The distressing part is that Motorola was one of my favorite companies. My mom had a protable Motorola phonograph that she bought in the ’50s that worked for us well into the 80’s. My favorite cell phone was my Motorola StarTac. Now, this and the thing with Apple has made me a little cold on them.
Anyway, I will let you know, and please comment.
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Another wrinkle; DSLExtreme had SBC (now AT&T) torque down the power on the DSL. While I am getting less speed, I am getting better thruput. The annoying static on the line also has gone away. With noise cancelling on the Uniden unit, everything has come together really nicely at this point.
Well, it looks as if the Uniden system is going to work out. It has everything I want except a shared phonebook (all handsets have separate phonebooks they can share by dumping the info to other handsets) and the ability to use the handset speakerphone on intercom. I have set noise cancelling for our lousy phone line, and picked ringtones for each handset. Cool.
Shame too, and they used to be so good.