Best Panasonic Cordless Telephone
Panasonic KX-TG7645M Link-to-Cell

In our opinion the best Panasonic cordless telephone is a Link-to-Cell phone. It's packed with state of the art features and if you can usefully spread five or more handsets around your home it's a bargain. Panasonic is clearly throwing down the gauntlet with this phone. It's a superior product at a highly competitive price. While others are trimming features to achieve cost savings Panasonic is adding features while cutting prices. It's a strategy that Japanese car manufacturers successfully pioneered.

Panasonic Cordless Telephone - Competition

The advent of DECT 6.0 technology initially intensified competition by leveling the playing field and eliminating many of the differences between competing cordless phone brands.

That was until Panasonic brought out its DECT 6.0 Plus phones. They have proprietary features that other brands struggle to compete with:

Talking caller ID

Call blocking by caller ID

Silencing individual handsets by time and day of the week

Extended range and optional range extenders

Power backup - using the power stored in handsets

Link-to-Cell Bluetooth technology

In responding to the challenge most of Panasonic's competitors are focused on cutting costs by any and all means available. These include eliminating optional extras such as headset jacks and persisting with proprietary battery packs.

The greatest threat to Panasonic cordless telephones doesn't come from other cordless phone manufacturers, but from consumers ditching their land line phone services in favor of cell phones. Panasonic is tackling this threat head on with Bluetooth cordless phones such as the KX-TG7645M. They can be used with both land line and cell phone services or as a bridge between the two. Better still they are addictive. Use a Bluetooth cordless phone for a few days and you will be hooked for life.

The Agenda

Before long every Panasonic cordless telephone will be Bluetooth enabled. Link-to-cell technology will be standard on all models. Consumers will no longer look for a Bluetooth cordless phone, but a Panasonic Link-to-Cell phone.

The Pros

While the latest phones are all DECT 6.0 phones it shouldn't be assumed that they are all the same. The Panasonic KX-TG7645M offers functionality that is only available on Panasonic cordless phones:

As standard on most cordless telephones the KX-TG7645M has an integrated digital answering machine, but it is also equipped with:

A large display with large easily read characters

Cordless telephone headset jacks

Flashing lights on the handsets indicating calls and messages

The KX-TG7645M also uses standard NiMH AAA rechargeable batteries. Other brands including: ATT, Uniden and VTech phones persist in using batteries with proprietary contacts. They charge a premium for replacement batteries and obviously enjoy a healthy stream of recurrent income as a result.

Collectively these features distinguish this Panasonic cordless telephone. It's absolutely the best DECT 6.0 cordless phone currently available, however there is still room for improvement.

The Cons

We have attempted to identify some short comings in order to temper to our rave, but there really isn't much we can say, here goes:

1. The speaker phones aren't full duplex, but that's also the case with nearly all cordless phones. We haven't found this to be an issue with the latest Panasonic phones, but if it's a show stopper your options are fairly limited. Siemens cordless phones are one of the few exceptions, but be prepared to pay significantly more for a Siemens Gigaset SL785.

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