Wish I'd read the reviews before buying this phone. Like the other reviewer said, just take your money and flush it down the toilet, at least it'll save you the aggravation. We spent more than $300 for this system and several phones for our home. The batteries had to be replaced at a hefty sum eight months later. Three months later, and now three of them say, "no signal with base," which may be another battery problem. We're done throwing good money after bad. This phone doesn't even deserve one star.

I have had this system with 7 extensions for roughly three years. Unfortunately, the batteries must be replaced every 14 months or so. However, the system excels in every other regard. Reception is static free and crystal clear - better than some corded phones I have had. And while I have not researched the market lately, at the time I bought this system, it was the only 2.4Ghz or better system on the market that could accomodate 2 phone lines on a multiphone cordless system. Fearing that if the base station ever broke, I would have flushed about $700 down the toilet, I actually bought a second base station which still sits in its box in my closet, since the original base station has performed without a hitch. The ability to transmit stored phone numbers or entire phone lists from one handset to the others is a nice feature. This system also allows for conference calling, separate voicemail boxes, and many features that I have never even bothered to learn to use. To me, the many pluses make it worth the investment in replacement batteries, which can always be found relatively chep on the web.

We have 8 of these phones and are extremely carefull about the dreaded memory effect and they still are awful!!! The displays fade in and out at will....whether they are fully charged or not. We have one phone that will last all of one dialing fully charged. We bought new batteries for these and started all over, not charging until the phone was completely dead. Same results as before. HEY Panasonic...these are the most terrible phones we have ever had.

This is a very poor product from Panasonic. I have always purchased Panasonic cordless phones and had great luck. This unit met all my specifications. I was so excited when I ordered it.

You cannot leave it off the charging station more than a couple hours or the batteries need to charge over night.

Within 6 months 2 units were returned for repair. 6 months later they were bad again but the warranty was up.

For the price I paid I should be writing a glowing review, instead I'm telling you to stay away from this product. It's no good and I'll never trust Panasonic again.

Oh, let us count the ways:

1) The battery life, as everyone mentions, is horrible. I suspect their recharging unit is not very smart, and thus they kill the batteries thanks to overcharging due to the so-called battery 'memory effort,' but I do not know this fer sure. The battery in one phone has now died on us, one is now so faint you can barely hear it, and the last one doesn't recharge much, and dies within the span of a 10 minute conversation when 'fully' charged.

2) There is also a short in the system, possibly related to the bad battery life, that results in the LCD screen blanking out when the phone is on the charger, and it only sometimes comes back alive. This makes the nice Caller ID LCD feature often useless.

3) They are NOT at all cheap for this level of crappiness. We decided to spring for what we thought were 'high-end' phones and got a terrible phone instead.

We will probably try to find the Energizer ER-P511 batteries to see if that solves our problems. But I'm tempted to go back to old but far more reliable phones. Alas, if only our cell phones worked in the house. (DON'T get me started on that one...)