Home Phones & Accessories

Home Phones & Accessories

Corded or cordless is the first decision and it is not only about convenience. A corded phone draws its power from the line itself, so it keeps working through a power cut, which is the reason many households keep one in the hall. A cordless DECT handset needs mains power at the base but lets you carry the call around the house, and multi-handset packs put a phone in more than one room from a single base and line, which is cheaper and simpler than wiring extensions. Twin and triple packs cover that. Big button phones exist for a specific and important reason: larger keys, high contrast numbers and audio boost make a phone usable for anyone with reduced vision, dexterity or hearing, and they are worth choosing deliberately rather than treating as a compromise. An integrated answer machine saves a separate device and stores messages on the base. On accessories, a curly handset lead is the coiled cord between handset and base and comes in 2.5 metre and 25 foot lengths, while an RJ11 splitter lets two devices share one socket, which is what you need for a phone and something else on the same line.

Panasonic is the widest range, with digital cordless phones in single, twin deck and triple packs, a two handset DECT set and a cordless phone with an answer machine in silver. Uniden covers accessibility most fully, with big button corded and cordless handsets and a big button model adding big numbers and audio boost in white, plus a 7203 basic desk phone in black. Doro supplies big button DECT cordless phones including a twin pack and the Phone Easy 311c in white. Powermaster makes the accessories, covering curly telephone leads at 2.5 metre and 25 foot and an RJ11 three way splitter adaptor, and Benross a classic retro style home phone in red.