BT Duet 210 Corded Landline House Phone, Home Phone, 10 Number Memory, LED Call Indicator, Mute Facility, Hearing Aid Compatible

I wanted a basic phone for the bedroom which I could mount on the wall to avoid using surface space. This one is compact, fits neatly on the wall and is barely noticeable. It has all the basic functions. The ringing tone and voice volume control are simple and straightforward. The ringing tone is audible but not excessively loud. There is some control over it, but basically it's medium and soft. Same with the voice control. The unit is well constructed and nicely designed. I find that BT products tend to be pretty reliable and this is no exception. Good value for money.
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Delivered quickly, packaged well. A nice light phone and fairly easy to use with no problem setting up or calling. Inexpensive and decent quality. The only reason I gave it a 4 star was purely for the fact that the volume on the phone could of been louder ( in my opinion) even on the highest setting I found it was rather quiet and at times when the household was busy found it was difficult to hear from the other end of the line. So if people are hard of hearing I'd most likely go for a higher volume phone as this one is rather quiet. Apart from that, works fine.
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For the money, this is an excellent, well made, attractive and reliable phone. It will work on BT lines and lines installed by Virgin Media. Again, it has a good memory facility for the price. Good, long leads are provided. I did have a slight problem that the curly handset lead tended to pull the base off its side table, but this is a very minor niggle, and probably would not be experienced on a desk top, where the user would extend the curly lead less than I did. It is versatile too, being wall-mountable. Both leads are provided, and the one from the base to the wall is a good length. I wanted this phone, because the crazy Virgin package offer on broadband and tv made it cheaper to have a phone line which is unused, than to exclude it.(In this particular application, the phone can be used to make free service calls, which in my experience can often be time consuming and useless). If you have a powered, wireless phone network in your home, this phone would make a useful emergency phone, because it goes on working during a power cut. Overall, I like it very much.
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Nice slimline phone. The ring volume can be adjusted from loud to soft to mute. Sound quality of the calls are clear. It has a 10 speed dial menu which is easy to programme. There is the redial button along with the mute button. All round this is a good phone for the money. I got it simply because I have a small side table with a larger phone so this one fits a lot easier on the table without knocking things about while picking the phone up & putting it back down.
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The phone is a nice one, but relies on the REN power from the phone line, which isn't always available on multi-socket systems, especially when a router is involved. The description should be corrected.
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I have used the BT Duet corded landline for a number of years, so this purchase was a replacement due to unforeseen damage to the telephone. The design of the telephone is ideal to wall mount or leave on a table etc., with the cable tucked into the reverse of the landline 'cradle'. The handset is easy to hold when talking and there are no issues with sound or volume. The telephone itself can be switched off using the switch on the top, so if you are going out, you can avoid the telephone disturbing your neighbours should it ring. 10/10 for the product design, usage and price.
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I moved into a new property that decides for me where and when I'm able to get a mobile signal..... Fed up of losing calls 10 seconds in - I got this so I could have a landline again for people to call me on. I mean. Let's all go back to the 1980's please where we also had telephone tables and it was basically a workout in itself to dial someone's number.... :) Sound quality is good and for what it cost - I feel it's really good value for money.
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I had a BT Duet 20 phone for a long while but last week I drenched it in coffee and the button keeps sticking, sometimes when it rings and I pick the receiver up the bell keeps on ringing and when I twiddle the button the caller gets cut off. I actually like the style of the Duet phones so bought the updated 210 model. Someone has mentioned in a review about getting charged for a 15 hour phone call because this phone had not cut off when he replaced the receiver. When we had our first phone ( I was 14) we had a party line so we all ALWAYS checked we got the dialling tone back again before putting the receiver down and I have done this after every call I have made since. Do this everytime even when someone has rung you and you can't lose. All you do with this phone is plug it into the BT socket and you're ready to go. No choice of ring sounds except you can choose a loud or quiet sound and the quick dial numbers (only 10 - numbered 0 - 9) were easy to set up. Sound is great, no crackling though the voices sound a little "sharper" than on the earlier model. One thing which did surprise me is that unlike the previous model the cable from the BT socket to the phone does not plug into the !gondola holder like before - the cable leaves the BT socket and travels along loose and then is fed into a groove under the gondola, it runs along the length of the gondola underneath and comes loose from the gondola and plugs into the handset - in other words no data or sound is entering the gondola at all it goes straight to the handset. I am sure a generic extension curly cable WOULD NOT work with this model as the cable just goes straight from the BT socket into the handset and the gondola merely acts as a stand for the handset. The handset's button that you can wiggle to get the dialling tone back is merely pushed in by a bump of plastic on the gondola when you hang up. On the previous model this moving button was on the gondola not the handset which is how I spilt coffee on the button. So the extended curly cable shown as "a buy with this item" by Amazon won't work with this phone at all. If you want a longer cable from the gondola to your ear - you simply remove the cable from the groove and fit part of its straight end from nearer to the BT plug into the groove and buy a short extension cable to run from the BT socket to the plug of the phone. For under a tenner I am very pleased.
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Il telefono e' molto bello nonche' buono qualitativamente ma presenta un problema che lo rende inutilizzabile, lo spinotto che deve entrare nella presa e di tipo inglese, non italiano. Non si puo' attaccare alla presa del telefono.
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Achtung: Das Telefon hat einen UK-Stecker, den man in Deutschland nicht nutzen kann, Adapter sind auch nicht erhältlich! Das geht aus der Beschreibung nicht hervor… ansonsten schönes Gerät aber nutzlos.
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