BT Verve 450 DECT Twin Digital Cordless Telephone with Answering Machine
- Fully GAP (register up to 5 handsets)
- 200 name and number directory
- Text messaging
- Caller groups with individual ring tones
- 10 hours talktime, 100 hours standby
BT Verve 450 DECT Twin Digital Cordless Telephone with Answering Machine
As well as it’s pleasing design, this phone does what it’s supposed to do brilliantly. Reception is perfect, and the speaker for hands free mode is very good. The buttons are clearly laid out, and for someone whose eyes aren’t what they used to be, the number are clearly legible. Best of all you can easily copy all the names and numbers in your address book from one handset to the other. The only drawback is that the keys are not backlit.
Rating: 5 / 5
i was looking to update my phone as had a samsung cordless phone for 10 years and wanted 2 handsets – one for downstairs and one for the bedroom.
the handsets are very slim in design and funky looking.
they work straight out of the box and automatically configure themselves as main base unit and additional handset
you can access the answermachine from either handset if you want to access messages or record a new message without having to be by the base unit itself
the handsfree is very good and loud and allows you to dial out handsfree without lifting the handset from the base although this can be a bit fiddly sometimes
the volume is very clear and the other person could hear me clearly without me having to shout really loud down the phone to them which you sometimes find on other phones
the only minor gripe as another person has mentioned is that the keypad is not backlit although the display screen is backlt – but once you get used to the key pads this is not a major issue
if it had a backlit kepad then i would have given it 5 stars but have given it 4 instead
Rating: 4 / 5
Bought these to replace ailing IDECT phones. Very smart to look at and nice and thin so easy to hold whilst they are quite wide so easy to grip.
Reception very good.
Fairly basic user interface but they are just phones after all. Especially like the way you can just copy all/one of the numbers from one phone to another automatically.
Time,date on display and an alarm too.
Childlock to keep those little tikes at bay.
Downside is the text facility available. It must have taken me about 10mins to write a text that would normally take 1min lol. Dont think there is predictive text.
Very good phones all in all.
Rating: 4 / 5
BT Verve 450 DECT Twin Digital Cordless Telephone with Answering MachineI found this phone so easy to set up. It did, however, seem to take a day before both phones tuned into each other. It is such a simple phone to use, the answerphone is clear and easy to set up. It is a stylish looking phone without having the outlay of a different make and model with the same look which would cost twice as much. I do however have one qualm, the volume could be louder for the ring tone, having said that when both phones ring upstairs and down, you can hear it just not as loud as you would expect. If you live in a huge house I would suggest this phone isn’t for you UNLESS you bought a system for every room.
Rating: 4 / 5
The kit’s pretty well self-explanatory and easy to set up: the glossy black finish of the handsets is smart too, although, as other reviewers have noted, feels as though it would scratch easily.
The two that came with my example are identical (none of the old `Handset 1′ and `Handset 2′ business – this is all programmed into the base station these days), are a little longer than modern mobile phones, but don’t feel as robust – it’s obviously not suited to chucking into a bag, then that’s not what you’re supposed to do with it. The batteries are a bit fiddly to connect, although the chip-puller tweezers from the trusty PC toolkit sorted that.
The base station has a handy two-position standby mode, with the handset either sitting upright like the secondary handset(s) or flush with the casing.
The choice of ring tones is skimpy at just two (unless anyone knows better) – for a bob more it’d be nice to have, say, a dozen to choose from: surely they don’t cost that much? There’s a fair amount of audible background hiss `on line’ and the sound quality has a somewhat muffled quality.
Continuing the skimpy line, the quick-start guide packed in the box is just that: download the full version of the user’s manual .PDF from BT’s website to broaden your scope considerably!
Turning down the criticism knob a notch or two, the sound quality isn’t as disastrous as some reviewers have claimed – at least with the set I have – although clearly some have had some serious issues with this aspect. That said, I do own up that it isn’t up to the standard of my old BT Freestyle `phones.
On the plus side, there are quite a lot of features for a low price, so you get what you pay for. If it had been half as much again for the same system, I’d have expected much better sound quality, but hey, you can’t have everything without getting the chequebook out.
The ability to store up to 200 numbers in the directory is good, and can be copied between handsets swiftly – they do seem to work almost independently: the pager facility is handy if you want to hail someone elsewhere in the house – like an intercom. On the downside, this doesn’t give the Verve an advantage, as this is a common feature standard with almost any competitor.
Overall then, not the perfect five, but in the mid-percentile of 3.5 stars. Unfortunately, because of the parsimony with the ring tones, that’s a casting vote to round down rather than up, so three it is, as you can’t give half a star.
Rating: 3 / 5