Product Review: General Electric 5.8 Gigahertz Cordless Telephone

Technology has become an ever growing area of interest for many people and cordless phones are nothing new. When shopping for a new phone my husband and I sought out a good brand at a fair price with many of the typical useful features. We found the 5.8 GHz cordless telephone by General Electric. We have used cordless phones before and found them to be average in their features. This cordless telephone has a frequency of 5.8 GHz, giving it a stronger frequency than any other cordless phone we have ever owned.

This cordless telephone sounds clearer in more places than any other cordless telephone I have ever used. Among its feature capabilities are the usual caller ID, call waiting, and 10 number memory. This telephone has a lighted call indicator which is a godsend for those like me who sometimes have radios and televisions running and may have trouble hearing the phone ring for whatever reason.

Most of the buttons for the features on this phone in one main place atop the keypad something I find useful. I hate having to search all my gadgets for every last button to control all the functions. The only functions that have buttons below the keypad are mute and flash which I rarely use.

The telephone is also able to be named in the caller ID window which we found funny when we got it home last month. When you are an owner of this product and have voicemail message waiting the name of the phone disappears and is replaced with the "New Voice Mail". This can come in handy if you keep your phone off the base a lot. The base of this cordless telephone has a charge-in use light which also blinks when there's voicemail to be heard.

I would recommend this phone to anyone who wants a good quality cordless phone and has little space. Even with the base unit it only takes up a few inches on a table or counter and if need can be mounted on a wall. This phone is a good value for what it does; it is easy to operate and doesn't take up much space. For a little over twenty dollars after sales tax, this phone is a good value for the money but nothing incredibly spectacular for what the device is intended. If you are looking for a new cordless phone you may want to give this one a try.