Panasonic KX-TG5776S Cordless Phone

The Bees Knees

By StangoDango  Oct 22, 2006 | 6 out of 6 found this Panasonic KX-TG5776S review helpful

Pros: Color Screen

Cons: No dialing display on the base unit

This phone is the bees knees. The clarity and the range are far out. I can take the phone out the front door and down the street two houses and still talk. The phone is set up like a cell phone so setting it up is fairly easy. You can download photo...s, ringtones, and your address book. The color screen is great if you have problems with your eyes as I do. The software is easy to use. It comes with quite few photos and picture IDs that can be used or you can make your own. You just select your own picture and it converts it. ***CONS*** There is no display that shows the number you are dialing on the base unit. The Panasonic software requires that your address book be converted to CSV which is easy. However, after you convert your address book to CSV and import it into the software, you will need to do some finesseing with some of the names and numbers. It only lets you choose either first or last name and not both. That aggravated me to no end. I spent 30 minutes fixing names and numbers before I downloaded them to the handset. However, the transfer process wasn't bad and it only took seconds. I downloaded my address book to both handset rather than using the handset address copy feature. It's nice that Panasonic has the copy address to handset features tho. I have Cox Cable Telephone and the CID database used is out of date. The Talking CID says what the phone line displays. However, it would be nice if the CID looked in your address book like your cell phone does. They didn't included the belt clip. Which is no big deal but for the price one pays for this phone, it would be nice if Panasonic included it. **I saw a report on the news about CID. If your phone company doesn't update its databases you will get a lot of messages that read out of service, long distance, or out of state readings. I heard it doesn't cost much for the phone companies to update these databases. They choose or are too cheap to spend the money to update their CID databases. Read more Less