General Chat

This may seem like a stupid question but thinking of buying this for my daughter. The main phone I know would have to be both plugged into electric supply and attached to phone line - does this apply to the second one or would it just have to be plugged in to electric? I did ask an assistant and he could not tell me! I gave up and left. Thank you Ann

Hi, The ones we have need electricity to both and a telephone line for the base station. Meryl

Brilliant Meryl - that's what I needed to know. I'll go tomorrow whilst there are still bargains about! Ann

We got a pair recently. You can manage without electricity to the second phone at all once both are fully charged. What we do is use the base station to charge them both alternately - just swapping the phones round or so every day or so. Our basestation is in the bedroom and this way we can do without wires on the downstairs phone, which sits neatly on a shelf in the hall with no wires for the kids to tug on. Angela

I want to get these for our house - we currently have a phone line (whith phone attached!) in our lounge and our bedroom, but of course I always want the downstairs one in the kitchen and the upstairs one in the office next to the computer! I'd be grateful for any recommendations - I would like to have an answer phone in the package too. nell

I have two base stations a Phillips and a Binatone and about eight handsets. IMPORTANT POINT FIRST. You should have at least one normal phone in the house for emergencies. In a power failure the digital ones won't work! Choose ones with normal size batteries AA or AAA, with high capacity batteries they can run for weeks. The Binatone ones although cheap, are very well made. They have an auto answer feature which means you just pick up the handset to answer like a normal phone, not all do that. Bob