Panasonic TG8222E Twin DECT Telephone Answering Machine
The stylish wall mountable Panasonic Cordless telephone answering machine KXTG8220E brings classy piano black looks and a stylised handset shape the 8220 makes a strong design statement. The in-built answering machine that can support messages lasting up to 40 minutes allows for extended user connectivity. A speakerphone allows hands-free convenience and a headset jack offers headgear compatibility
Needs some improvement - but not bad overall
A reasonable phone overall.
It has a nice clear display and the menu options are easy to navigate around. The screen has plenty of space to display phone book entries, unlike our old Binatone phone where it could only hold names up to 8 characters. I also like the feature where, once you’ve entered all the contacts into the address book, you can automatically copy them to the other handset. This saves you time having to enter the phone contacts onto each phone separately.
There is a good selection of polyphonic ring tones although most of them are pretty poor in sound quality compared to what you can get on a mobile phone.
The reception seems fine and voice quality is on a par with our old phone.
The only negative point so far is that when the handset is resting on the charging cradle the screen is permanently lit up. It does not auto-dim or enter a screen saver mode like some mobile phones do. If you have one of these phones in your bedroom this can be a pain as it lights up the room at night. You’d be surprised how much light these phone produce in the dark! There is an option to adjust the screen contrast in the settings but it is not enough. I would imagine it consumes more power too this way.
You can leave the phone off the charging cradle to get round this problem but it defeats the purpose of allowing the phone to remain fully charged overnight. I don’t want to mess around having to take the phone off the cradle every night. If anyone knows a fix for this let me know.
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