British Telecom BT Mango Trio 1-Line Cordless Phone

Hi

Well it looks good, i got the black one. worked right out the box no fuss setup
with well thought out menus and a good call signal. The sim card reader is great and easy to use, great for backing up your mobile sim contacts.

Over all for the price i paid its a great phone so go grab your self one, mine was second hand at the price £17 inc postage lol. Even at the new price would recomend

Thanks for looking

Daren

I love the look of these phones,the nice bright colour.The size of the phone is ideal with the sliding function.They certainally beat the old phones that we had.Some people might find the buttons a little bit small compared to oldier phones,but once you start to use them that fear disappears.In a way it is just like using a mobile that has this sliding function.With an answer machine function included I believe they are great value for money.The service from www. dectcordlessphones.co.uk was truly outstanding and the price was truly brilliant.Many,many thanks for the truly Rapid service.Kind regards martin.

Thorough gentleman, easy to deal with, good product, good service, excellent. I have not had an easier and smoother dealing that this. Hopefully will deal again soon.

Once this was set up,it was a dawdle to use,and the colours are great according to my good lady.what more can one ask than the Item does what it says on the Box?.Great value for money,a rare one to find though?,but no more attempting to dash from one room to the next to answer the phone,especially when you can't do that,as I'm disabled.Well done BT,and thanks.

Very usful to have the sim reader as you can download all your numbers from your mobile. Is quite chunky to use though.

**Functionality**
The display, although not colour, is large, backlit and easy to read while the menus are really simple to use. I haven't found this to be the case with some other BT models. The menu buttons are large and easy to operate and the manual says the range is 300 metres outdoors, although any obstruction will reduce this, and 50 metres indoors.
It has a 255 name phone directory, clock, alarm, memo facility, secrecy button, handsfree, call screening, and 15 ringer melodies to choose from, 5 standard and 10 polyphonic. (The cool thing here is, like many mobile phones, you can select different ring tones for people in your phonebook - if you can remember which tune you assigned to them! You can, of course call internally between phones, transfer calls and page the other handsets too.
Another handy thing is that it has a sim card reader so you can copy your mobile phonebook straight to it and it can then copy the phonebook to each handset.
Yes, it does have caller display. It's also GAP compatible which apparently means you can add other digital phones to the base station.
The answering machine has 11 minutes of record time which isn't particularly long but is fine for me and it gives remote access to your messages. You have the option to record your own message or use the standard one and you can opt to have the answering machine kick in but not allow messages to be left. Messages on my last phone were accessed from the handset and only in loudspeaker mode whereas this allows both loudspeaker and normal for privacy. (you can't playback from the base though) It has a time and date-stamp of messages and the quality of playback is good and clear. The phone can be set to alert that you have messages with a beep every 10 seconds, which can be turned off(and it also flashes a light on the base to indicate too. I have noticed though that if you save messages, the light continues to flash until you delete them. On the plus side, it doesn't flash to say there's a message if the caller hasn't actually left one. Again, with my last phone, I'd come in to numerous 'messages' showing and they'd all be hangups. The calls are still logged though and show via an image of a telephone with the number of calls you've had.
SMS texting also comes with this phone.
**Performance**
It performs well, with the adjustable ringer volume being much better than my last phone and the ringer can also be switched off completely. The clarity of calls is good and you can also vary the earpiece volume when you're on a call. As I've not had this phone long, the battery life is great so far. (Batteries are 2 AAA NiMH)rechargeable) The manual says it should give 9 hours talk time and 72 hours standby on a single charge.
I mentioned it had a slider mechanism - The manual says you have to open the slider AND press the call button (if off the base) to take a call but I've discovered that it works with either one of them.
**Drawbacks**
The handsfree facility is a bit disappointing as it's not particularly loud. It's enough to hear when doing other things nearby but you still have to be fairly near when speaking for the other person to hear.
No call-barring - It has call screening allowing you to intercept calls after they go to the answering machine but it doesn't have call barring which my last phone had - both outgoing and incoming.

the volume of the other person speaking is very poor even when turned up to the highest level.i will not be keeping this phone i will be getting rid

these phones are great to use,so easy to set up and lots of different things to do with them,i love the flip up so easy and compact,recomended,give them a try.

item was good but battery tottaly dead.even didn't charge,if charge than gone off in 1 mins.seller should send new battery with that than people buy more
PHONE BATTRES ARE DEAD AND FAULTY IS WELL,BETTER THAN BUY NEW ONES
after one month stop working another set,1st he send me one faulty set when i send back to him he send me in same conds even didn't tuch.I will says to every singel buyer don't buy from him