Customer Rating: 
Summary: Good phone, but room for improvement
Comment: I've had this phone for about a month. I like the phone's many features, especially the speaker
capability built into the handsets, and would buy it again. However, there are a few things, one
especially, that Panasonic could improve on.
(a)Missed call list - While for some
things, the handsets coordinate with each other (e.g., phone #s entered into one handset can easily
be copied to all other handsets; date/time set on one handset sets it on all), when a call is
answered using another phone in the house, it shows as a "missed call" on ALL handsets. IOW, the
handsets do not recognize that the call was answered. Even worse, a call answered on one handset
records as a missed call on ALL other handsets. In addition, deleting missed calls from one handset
does NOT remove them for the others; you must delete them individually from each handset. The phone
can have up to 8 handsets. If I needed more than the 2 handsets that came with it, this malfunction
would cause me not to buy the phone. It's the #1 thing Panasonic needs to fix.
(b)The
clarity of the speaker for the base unit answering machine is poor, to the point that it's often
difficult or impossible to understand the person's name or the phone number they left. Luckily,
unless the caller blocks their ID, the handset captures the number as a missed call, so you can get
it from that, but it may not show the person's name, only part of a company name.
(c)Although the phone is advertised as a "5.8GHz Digital Gigarange", it's not necessarily
"gigarange"; depends on where you put the base unit. I have the base in my basement office. The
location probably accounts for the very short handset range, which is pretty much limited to the
confines of the house. The manual says to put the base unit "high"; e.g., on the 2nd floor of a
2-story, but I have to have it in the office because I have an intelligent fax connected to it that
automatically picks up when it "hears" the fax signal. I did an experiment where I put the unit on
the 2nd floor, and the range increased dramatically (~200%). However, I also compared it's range to
a 20-year-old Panasonic 900MHz cordless, and the new phone's range is only about 30' more than the
old phone. So if you need a LOT of range on the handsets, determine whether it will be convenient or
even possible to put the base in a high position.
(d)The handsets are small (1 7/8" wide by
1 1/8" thick); my hand is big (palm alone is 4" wide x 4 1/4" long), so the handsets are not
particularly comfortable. Panasonic could improve the comfort by putting soft rubber along the edge
and around part of the back.
If you go shopping for a 2-line phone, you will discover
that there's not much out there and few choices in the brick-and-mortar stores (Best Buys, Staples,
Office Depot). Reviews of other 2-line phones show that they all have their quirks, some pretty
serious. The KX-TG6702B is a well short of perfect, but probably better than most.
Customer Rating: Summary: It works as advertised
Comment: Panasonic KX-TD7896, 2.4GHz Multi-Line Wireless Phone
In this age of so many electronic
devices failing out of the box or not quite operating at advertised ability, amazingly enough, this
Panasonic product works perfectly as advertised. I have a resort in iron country where radio
signals get lost in the iron content in the ground. This 2 line phone has a range that exceeds a
quarter mile. Similar phones by Uniden lost contact outside the office door. Models by Sony failed
to work out of the box and no one would stand behind them including Sony who no longer manufactured
the phones they just sold me.
The only wish we have is for a two button quick dial on the
hand-sets, a minor inconvienience.
Customer Rating: Summary: A very good choice
Comment: I've only had this phone for a week, but it is already better than the 3 other AT&T phones I've had
over the past 2 years. The best thing about this phone so far is that it doesn't have any
background hum in the handset(all 3 AT&T phones did). You can hear the person you are talking with
clearly. The volume in the handset is more than adequate. The phones appearance is so-so, but it
is very functional and that matters more to me than a sleek appearance with lousy sound quality. My
3 prior AT&T phones didn't last more than 4-10 months. The background hum eventually got so loud, I
could barely hear the person I was talking with. From my experience so far, I would recommend this
phone over AT&T and VTech. I hope the phone lives up to my praise over the long term.
/>I've now had this phone for over 4 months and am still very satisfied with it.
Customer Rating: Summary: It died on me
Comment: Panasonic KX-TG6700, 5.8GHz Cordless Phone
I have had bad luck with Panasonic phones
dying after a couple of years, but the features of this phone were what I needed so overcame my
reluctance. The phone has worked fine for several years but this morning every light was on and the
phone was inoperable. The issue is apparently the ribbon connector to the circuit board in the phone
(a number of troubleshooting forums have addressed this problem), which i managed to disconnect to
reboot the board. Now the handset is working again but not the base unit, and only if i leave the
back off the base. Maybe Panny is taking a cue from the Auto companies who planned to have their
products fall apart after a couple of years so you'd have to buy new ones. I don't know but this is
the 4th Panasonic phone I've bought that did not live to a normal replacement age.
