PANASONIC KX-TGF352N Corded/Cordless Phone System with Answering Machine & Call Blocking - 2 Handsets (Champange Gold) for Home & Office Communication

I needed a landline desk phone for my office, which had extensions for my kitchen and bedroom. This system fit the bill perfectly! It replaces a 20+ year old Panasonic 2-line desk phone that still works well, but has no extensions. Panasonic products are the best!Sound on receiver echoes..and is not very clear..hard to set up time using the button to change from am to pm. Could not do it..still observing as it's practically new.Value for money and great designWe had an old set of 3 top of the line (in their day) Panasonic wireless phones. But after our having them around 10 years (plus they weren't new whe we got them), the buttons on some of them were getting a bit cantankerous. Playing the #1 hard on this one, hit the 2 on this handset and eventually having to go back to the base to end a call on them got old. So I started researching.The biggest thing I was looking for was one that didn't stick out far from the wall.THIS is the ONLY one on the internet I could find after hours of research that fit fairly snuggly to the wall.The base at its deepest it protrudes just a hair over 4". With the wall mount our old one stuck out close to 6". So it is narrow, tight fitting, close to the wall. Again the narrowest I could find.The width is about 9" and the height is just over 7.5". (Again the handset - which I suppose you could disconnect and remove if you had to for some reason.)The features are easier to figure out than our previous set. (although some of the setup for one we don't plan on using have #codes that probably only the geekiest would remember).I like that the mounting plate just switches around for wall mount or desk. It also is hallow so it can hold the extra length of the phone and power cord. Love that you don't have to play the wind the cord around and /or tuck in here - oh bother now it won't reach the outlet game.The wireless handsets come with batteries, the backup power on the base does not come with batteries. It functions without them. It takes 2 AAA Ni-MH batteries. I researched and ordered the iMac brand, they are orange and black. A person would probably not need them if you have a battery backup box from the phone company.Other things to note:Color is only champagne (light brownish goldish color) on the front of the wireless handsets, the back of the wired handset and the front of the base - the rest is more of a white. The key pad and the display in the middle of the base are a darker tone.The cord is super short and has the narrower jacks.Ringer can be set to what I feel is super loud.I did not think I would miss the caller ounce from our old phones. But I did, I scoured the instruction/set up booklet. No luck.However as I was configuring the base...lo and behold it does have caller ounce that you can turn on or off.Bonus with the corded base - you Always know where at least 1 phone is.Note: I have only had a week and so far loving these phones. The only thing I am having trouble adjusting to one thing...I forget I can just push the off button and instead I head over to the base.I hope this is helpful - I know I would have appreciated it when I was searching.*Since I've become accustomed to the use of Panasonic Telephone over the past nearly eighteen years, and my 5.8GHz had seen better days, I decided to purchase an upgraded version. Model: KX-TGF350 N was recently purchased via Amazon. While I'm excited about this new version, there's however, a slight defect. Intending to use it as a "desk model" rather than "wall-mounted," it is noticeably lapped-sided. While there are four tiny legs, only three are functional--which causes it to rock to the right side. Because I do like the product and do not wish to return or exchange it, I wanted you to be aware of this defect. In the meantime, I've simply elevated the right leg.Working okExcelente equipo.Muy buenos,muy buen sonido excelente volumenTeléfonos de calidad, la pantalla es muy clara, tanto en la base como en las terminales. El sonido es muy claro, y tiene muy buena recepción, no se escucha ruido a pesar de estar en diferentes niveles en la casa. El sistema de lectura de llamada es útil, te dice quien llama, pero sólo viene en inglés, por lo que los nombres guardados los pronuncia mal, y los números los dice en dicho idioma. El respaldo de batería es muy útil, ya que la base y las terminales siguen funcionando un rato aunque no se tenga suministro de electricidad.I bought these phones specifically for the bright black-and-white display shown on the Amazon page, but in fact the screens on all three phones are dark grey with black lettering. I can barely see what's being displayed by leaning down to about six inches from the phone itself. I can't find anything in the manual that addresses this, and the "help" page on Panasonic is just a bunch of irrelevant questions answered by other owners of the phones.I'm not going to bother returning them, since they work other than that, but I'm very disappointed in this purchase. I wish now that I had replaced my old V-Techs with the new V-Techs.lo compre por que ya estaba cansado de los teléfonos de telmex y estos teléfonos panasonic son excelentes tienen bloqueo de llamadas, alarmas, tienen intercom, tiene una agenda para registrar a tu contactos y también tiene un altavoz que te dice quien te esta marcando. solamente conectas el teléfono de base a la linea telmex y los otros dos inalambricos funcionan.Really glad my last basic landline died suddenly and I ended up buying this landline / headset combination! It's an order of magnitude improvement with a lot of really nice functionality, beautiful silver look and nice tilting large easy to read LED display. Now that I also have handsets, no more dashing madly from the bedroom to get to a call on the living room landline in time. Much functionality that I will never use as I don't get a lot of calls and have phone company voicemail but it was a lot of tech fun setting up a bunch of interesting features. Though I can see the manual being a problem for anyone with only basic (older?) landline experience, I had no major problems with it myself and don't think anyone who has worked through a cell phone manual would have any difficulties. Since all my recent phones have died/malfunctioned within a couple of years recently, I decided to go for the three year warranty offering. It's nice to see they even offer a three year one as it infers the company expects a longer problem free lifespan.Had noticed after some use, the handsets (which I store sitting in their charging docks all the time) would once in a blue moon give out a beep. The last time this happened, I lifted the complaining device out of its dock and cleaned the contacts and then put it back in. It immediately indicated 'Charging' despite the power icon on the handset display showing three bars.Update: I created "groups" of recognized numbers in my "phonebook" and set these groups to bypass the phone's "silent mode" that I have turned on. The phone thus only rings when someone I know calls (and incidentally uses a different ringtone with each group!). I occasionally turn off silent mode for a short while if I am expecting a call from, say, a delivery driver.I also use call blocking e.g., I set up one "range of numbers" block that matches the first six digits of my own phone number as spammers will often use a spoofed caller id number closely matching your number to gain your trust. This particular feature would be much more powerful if I could set my phonebook groups of known numbers to override this blocking much like I can set them to bypass silent mode!This phone works great and it has all the features that my old Panasonic phone had. The only thing I wish it had was a flashing light signal for voicemail like my old phone had. Other than that so far it works great and I do like the colour a lot better then just being black. I do recommend this product.