Siemens Gigaset SL400A

We struggled with a BT phone for a number of years - crackly sound, awful menu system, date kept changing so you never knew when a voicemail had been left etc etc.

Decided to finally get a decent phone and did some research. The Siemens Gigaset SL400A seemed to get some exceptional reviews for both its styling and functionality so we took the plunge.

Its a very nice phone indeed.

It feels very solid, the sound quality is excellent and it looks like a really good quality mobile phone.

We have 3 of them so they are spread across the house. You can adapt each handset (eg lower volume, different ringtone etc) so its very flexible.

I haven't really played with the bluetooth functionality yet - I guess it would be useful if we can use it to upload some names/numbers to the phone, but it wasn't a massive selling point for us.

So far I've found this phone excellent and would definitely recommend it. The only real downside is the price. We paid about £270 for the 3-handset version which is steep. That said, you seem to get what you pay for in this instance.