Siemens E450 DECT 6.0 Digital Cordless Phone System The Gigaset E450 is a particularly robust phone, which resists the usual tests your little explorers subject it to. That’s why the Gigaset E450 is the first telephone resistant to shocks, water splashes and dust - ideal for families.Apart from that, the Gigaset E450 provides you with so many useful features that everyone in the household will benefit from it. The room monitoring function will help you keep an ear on your children when they should be sound asleep. Additionally, thanks to the Gigaset E450’s handsfree function, you can make a call when preparing a meal for the family. Up to 150 numbers can be entered into the telephone directory, enough for the whole family and all of your children’s best friends.
Customer Review: Very good phone, well designed and built
Replaced an old Vtech with this phone, after trying a new Vtech LS-6125-2 two handset system (horrible battery life, being returned). The E450 appears to have at least three times the battery life of the 6125. I have had none of the problems mentioned in the other reviews of the E450.

The keys have accepted every press when I am dialing, and I dial fast. The **display** does not update as quickly as the phone will let you dial, but it does actually dial the number as quickly as you enter numbers.

Battery life appears acceptable for a DECT 6.0 phone (they are said to have high power requirements). See below.

Range from the base station and sound quality, both incoming and outgoing, are superb.

Features are great. If you take the time to think through what you are reading in the manual, and play with the phone, it does everything you could want and more. Oh, and it DOES show caller ID with name. The Gigaset website and the manual seem to strongly imply that it does not, but it does. If you enter a number and name in the directory, it will display that name as well, after flashing the caller ID name and number first. It also has cell-phone-like battery level and signal strength indicators that appear to be quite accurate.

Mine **did** set its own time and date from the phone company network while it was charging up during its initial 10 hour charge/learning cycle. It does not lose time, but it remains exactly 31 seconds behind National Institute of Standards time, which is probably due to my phone company, Embarq, supplying a time setting that is slightly behind NIST time.

It does not update the time in the display when the display is off. Kind of quirky, but a very minor matter. When you turn the phone on, like by pressing the “Talk” key, it will quickly flash the time that it was last on. But it is keeping and will display the correct time, it just lags a second or so when you wake it up.

Best of all, it is made in Germany, not China. I dislike buying Chinese goods for several reasons, and this phone, and its sisters, the S450 and S455 (and their extra handsets, the S45 and E45) are the only cordless phones I have found that are not made in China.

Customer service was great to me the two times I called them. Much better than Vtech. There is actually someone there at Siemens, and they go out of their way to help you.

The only possible negative that I can find is that it may, **may** not have the battery life that Siemens claims. However, it is still in its first full charge/discharge/learning cycle, and battery life can increase after a few cycles. Further the Siemens phones have a very sophisticated balanced charging system that monitors the battery. For what it is worth, the Vtech LS-6125-2 system that is going back to the store claimed about the same battery life as the E450, but the handsets for the 6125 were only good for 24 hours or less, even after several cycles and with low use. That was totally unacceptable. My E450 is at over 36 hours off of the charger now, on its first cycle, and medium to high use so far, and still showing that it is 2/3 full of charge. After a few cycles it should do well enough to be quite acceptable, but possibly not the full 160 hours standby or 12 hours of talk that Siemens claims. Still quite acceptable and far, FAR better than the Vtech 6125 handsets were.

All in all, very happy with this phone.
Customer Review: Great defective phone.
We received the phone in great time. The phone is overall EXCELLENT. The only problem we had is that we received a deffective phone. It took approx. 10 tries to dial out. Then using the caller ID or phone book, you couldn’t “quick dial” those numbers. Other than that, the RANGE of the phone was VERY impressive. I just wish we would’ve gotten a good phone to begin with.

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