after poor experience with various 'no brand' or 'low brand' cordless phones we settled on Siemens and last Christmas we bought 3 of the digital cordless ones with the Eircom badge on for presents. We found it excellent,if a bit expensive at $150. It can send and recieve texts and has a speaker phone facility it also has a voice tag feature. Some of the Binatones from argus sound like your in a tank I woulnt touch them.
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