2nd Gen Panasonic is amazing
Written: Nov 09 '01 (Updated Nov 09 '01)
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Pros: Tri-mode, normal rings
Cons: may be too small or light for those who lose things easily
The Bottom Line: High quality with tons of features, very light and very durable with a great price.
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| kriebe's Full Review: Panasonic Allure EB-TX310 (Silver) |
An exceptionally small and light phone. This phone is over half an ounce lighter than the tiny Nokia 8000 series. Even though it is 2.7 ounces, it still has a tight design that feels normal to hold to your ear and talk in and will be harder to break or lose than the Nokia.
This phone has been dropped many times by me already and everything works perfectly. And when I say everything, there is a lot of everything. Send text messages, caller id with picture representation, different rings for different callers. Of the different rings, there are many. There are 6 general rings which sound like actual phone rings, then there are 10 preset melody rings, and there are also 5 custom melodies that you can either compose yourself or download off of panasonic's website www.panasonic-club.com. And there's still one last ring, which is my favorite. You can record your own voice or any sound you want and have that be your ring. So when your inlaws call, you can listen to yourself tell you to not answer the phone.
Getting back to what the website provides, it has the software to do any composing you want and the software to transfer the melodies and pictures. Pictures of which there are many to download to your phone on the website also. There are also tutorials to help you do some composing of your own.
There are six different back light colors to chose from: Amber, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, and Teal.
Couple things that I especially like that they added to this phone that the previous 210 did not have are the mini jack for headsets. Before you had to buy one directly from panasonic that would only work on that phone. Also added is voice memo. You can create memos to yourself up to 20 seconds in length to listen to later for any reminder.
The phone book, yes, even the phone book is amazing on this phone. Not only can it hold 250 entries, but each entry doesn't have only the basic First and Last name, home, work, cell phone, and other. It also has Speed Dial for quick dialing of those you dial most often, email address for use with text messaging, special ring for individual people, backlight to change the color of backlight on caller id for each individual, also picture and birthdate.
There is a quiet mode, there is a vibrating ring, and there is key lock. Choose from English, Spanish, French, or Portugese. Basic security with locking and lock code and power lock. Call waiting with caller id. Voice mail. There's even speakerphone on this thing. And it actually works. Just make sure and tell the person on the other end of the line to take the phone away from there ear for a moment while you hold down the button to go to speakerphone.
Say your talking on the phone and you need to right down a phone number at the same time and you have no paper. Just key it in on the keypad and save it after you are finished with the call. The call won't be interupted.
Did I mention voice commands? Yup, say a name and it will call that person. Tell your phone to be quiet and it will go to vibration mode. Whatever you want.
In analog mode the batter is supposed to last 80 minutes of talk time and 5.5 hours on standby. I have yet to actually use analog. As far as Digital goes, talk time is up to 140 minutes and standby is up to 200 hours. I don't even know what its like to run out yet, probably never will. Batter recharge time is approximately 180 minutes.
I'm sure there's something I've forgotten, but I've probably already said too much. Sorry about that, but I just love this phone.
Recommended:
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Amount Paid (US$): $89
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Member: Kurt Riebe
Location: San Francisco, CA
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