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 American Fridge Freezers
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Cookers and Hobs
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Telephones - Buyers Guide
Type
Corded Phones - are available in a wide range of colours and styles and because most are wall mountable they are ideal for kitchen, bedroom or home office use as long as they are located near a compatible wall socket.
Useful features such as last number redial and name/number memory are fairly standard but there are also models with hands-free speakerphones and, if you subscribe to the service, caller display facilities (a quarterly fee is payable to BT).
You can also send and receive email via the built in keyboard with some models.
Cordless Phones - give you the freedom to make and receive calls up to 300 metres (outdoor range in optimum conditions) from the phone's base station in your home. When considering a cordless phone you will have to choose between a standard (analogue) model and a more expensive but better digital version.
Standard Cordless Phones - provide a cheaper alternative to a digital phone and tend to work best when used around the house or with an outdoor range of up to 100 to 200 meters from the base unit.
Digital Cordless Phones - with an outdoor range of up to 300 meters from its base unit they are ideal for those with a big garden. A digital model will also give the crackle free speech quality of a corded product.
Additional Handsets
Additional handsets can be added to most cordless phones by simply plugging them in to a convenient power supply, and with no need for extra phone sockets or wiring. You can add up to two handsets to a standard cordless phone.
Digital phones enable you to include between four and six additional handsets to one base station. You don't have to keep to the same brand either as most digital phones let you mix and match handsets to suit your needs.
Digital Answering Machines
A stand-alone digital answering machine can be connected to your existing phone or you can buy a new phone with a digital answering facility built-in. Digital answering machines have improved sound quality, faster message retrieval and no tape to worry about as recordings are made within the machine itself. You can even buy models with several pre-recorded greetings or announcements.
When choosing a digital answering machine for your home of office, make sure that you buy a product with sufficient recording time. If you are away from home for long periods of time, you may require a longer recording capacity, plus remote access.
This Product Guide was provided by kind permmission of Comet.
Comet checks competitors' prices, then lowers their own.
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