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- Jun
Tag : 2 handsets, cell link, 6 0, system w, panasonic kx, convergence telephone
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 Company : Panasonic List Price : $129.95 Amazon Price : Too low to display Used Price : Average customer review :  |
Features
- Use both Bluetooth Cell Phones and Landlines
- Talking Caller ID/Talking Alarm Clock/Talking Battery Alert
- Built-in Clock w/Alarm on Handset
- Call Block, Night Mode
- Expandable up to 6 handsets
Product Description
Your cell phone is your “lifeline.” It keeps you connected at work, on the road, even at home. And now, there’s a better way to make and receive calls at home with ultimate comfort and convenience. Panasonic Link-to-Cell uses Bluetooth technology to connect your cell calls to your home handset extensions. No more running for your cell, walking around for good reception, or cradling that little phone on your shoulder. Better yet, you get to tap into your free cell minutes for talk time and you can charge your cell while using the home handsets. Now, that’s convenience! How Does It Work? Just link any Bluetooth-enabled cell phone to your Link-to-Cell base unit and you’re good to go. It’s that easy. Set up takes only seconds, and you can link up to two phones at once. Talking Caller-ID lets you know who’s calling and custom ring tones tell you which cell phone is ringing.
With Link-to-Cell, You Can: Frequency/Technology 1.9 GHz DECT 6.0 Multi-Handset Capability 2 Maximum of 6 handset capable with optional upgrades Phone Lines 1 LCD Language English and Spanish 60 Channels Link to Cell technology up to 2 cell phones Caller ID Memory 50 / Phone Book up to 50 entries Battery Life (Talk Time) 5 hours Battery Life (Standby Time) 11 days Charge Time 7 hours Selectable Night Mode Lighted Indicator with Ringer/Message Alert Illuminated handset keypad Intercom among handsets Handset Locator function Belt Clip Handset accepts optional headset LCD (Handset) 1.4 Dot 16 Digits x 3 Line White Backlit Color Ringer and Talk volume controls
Customer reviews
Make Sure Before You Buy 
Nice phone and features, but make sure your BT cell is compatable before you buy. Thanks to amazon for their great CS.
Great on balance if you know what you’re after 
I installed the TH1212 experimentally a few days ago and so far I’m loving it.
BACKGROUND:
My wife and I each have bluetooth phones AND bluetooth headsets, which we use religiously. When we come home, we want to set the phones down to charge, fold up our headsets, and walk away. 99% of the time, my phone is on Vibrate, so I miss most calls when I set it down.
— GOOD STUFF —
Link-to-cel definitely hits my expectations. The system has a configurable interval where it can try to connect to each cel. I set this to once per minute, and within a minute or two of deactivating my handsfree, the base station has connected to the phone.
Handsets are configured with different rings for each cel and a separate one for the landline. So far this has not been as helpful a feature as I expected.
CallerID works as expected through the handsets– name and/or number is spoken aloud on receipt of a call via either cel or the land line. If the number matches a saved name, the phonebook name is spoken instead of the callerID.
Many features (like the phone book) are shared by all handsets. There is a map of which features are/aren’t in the manual. One interesting thing is that the phone book can only be ACCESSED by one handset at a time.
Each handset has a “Night Mode” setting (configured independently), which prevents the phone from ringing at all. We configured the phone for our bedroom not to ring during Nap Time so as not to wake the children. Another phone lives downstairs, and has Night Mode disabled (the default).
Each handset takes two rechargeable AAA batteries and has specific instructions for what kinds to buy. Batteries were included in the package, but I’ve had HUGE problems replacing batteries from previous phone systems, so this was very nice to see. NOTE: I can’t comment on battery life yet in any meaningful way since I haven’t had the system very long.
The first thing the phone does when plugged in is begin counting down to when the batteries will be charged (”charge 7 more hours”). This didn’t do much for me, since I used it before the charge was complete, but it was good to know nonetheless. I assume the same thing happens when you change batteries.
The base unit and all chargers can be freestanding or wall-mountable.
— LIMITATIONS —
None of these were problems for me, but they might be for you:
Despite the phone having three lines (two cel, one landline), only one can be used at any given time. That is, while you’re talking to your mom on the landline, your wife cannot make a call on a different handset, even if it uses the cellular line. There’s an obvious workaround: actually use your cel phone. I could imagine this would be a problem in busy households, but it hasn’t been for us.
The phone book UI is a little clunky. To be fair, I have yet to see any phone system do this well.
Although you can tell the handsets apart in the display, you can’t name them. It’s a lot easier to know where a phone belongs by a name rather than a number. Of course, the phone doesn’t seem to support calling to a specific handset, so I can understand why they didn’t feel the need to implement this feature.
Handset-to-handset intercom would be nice. The phone does seem to support global intercom, though I haven’t used it yet.
If your cel phone(s) are in different area codes than the land line, configuring the dialing rules for the shared phone book can be non-obvious. We are in this position, but it wasn’t really an issue for us since we use the phone book primarily for dialing OUT on the LANDLINE. The outbound calls we’d make for our cels are for a much smaller numberset and we’d never use the landline to make them (by definition, if we’re home, one or the other cel is present).
A Review
Once installed this unit essentially gives you convenient access to 3 telephones lines - 1 Land-line + 2 cellphones - but you can still only use one line at a time. So if you are using a handset to make or take a call that came in via your cellphone, you will not be able use the system for making or receiving any calls on the other cellphone or via the land line.
For many people this will mean that instead of carrying on 2 or 3 conversations - very common here at my house - you will be limited to only 1. Kinda like having 3 bathrooms in your house but only 1 door to get to them, fine if you live alone, but if you have more than 1 person at home expect to have somebody asking how much longer you are going to be, or when you will be done, every 2 minutes.
5 stars for a great product so far.
0 stars for the line-blocking action.
2 stars for overall execution.
Battery greed down the drain & Battery GREEN is here to stay. Thanks Panasonic !! 
After opening the box I was floored ! These phones take 2AAA batteries each ! (NMH AAA ONLY !!!) You mean when the batteries are used up or just discharged I don’t have to spend $50.00 for some exotic battery.
No bluetooth headset ….. so……….. I would just use my bluetooth cell phone.
No answering machine……… so …….. I use my VM or would buy a AM.
These phones are crystal clear and have Speaker Phone and Intercom. The phone book in each handset updates ALL handsets when you add a number.
The base should hold 4 AAA batteries for power failure and line 1 & 2 should able to be cell phones not just line 1(for families that don’t use land lines but have 2 cells).
The description on the box understates its qualities. Panasonic has outperformed its own promise.
I give this product a 10 out of 10 but it really deserves an eleven.
Best Cordless phone
I have been waiting for this phone since it was announced at CES in January. Originally I tried the AT&T EP5632 but was disappointed by the bluetooth technology. On the AT&T my cell phone would never connect automatically when I came home for the day. The Panasonic works flawlessly every time. It has a setting the can control how frequently the cordless phone looks for the cell phone.
Other then the wonderful bluetooth feature everything else works as you’d expect. I can make or place calls, there is a phone book and customizable ringers. The talking caller id is a bonus. The sound comes out of the handset not the base unit so I can hear who is calling in each room I have a handset.
The only thing I have found to knock on the phone is that there does not appear to be a phonebook transfer feature. Transferring between handsets is something my old panasonic could do. Even better is if the phone could sync with the phonebook on my cell phone. Also, the only lighted keys are the numeric keys. Everything else is not lighted. It would be great if everything else where lighted.
