I've been a fan of the OOMA Telo since I got it just over a year ago. In fact, I just got my first annual bill associated with OOMA that starts on your second year of service. I paid only $11.75 for another year (saving me $360 per year). A fantastic deal for what has been excellent phone service and a great way to cut your bills without sacrifice!
When I bought my OOMA telo I simply used it with my old Uniden cordless phones (and it worked reasonably well with them). However, the batteries on my Uniden handsets were starting to die and rather than replace them I thought it might be time to look for something better.
Panasonic KX-TG6445t
Initially, I was just looking for a decent deal on a phone set with at least 4 handsets.
However, as I read a bit more about the newer DECT 6.0 phones I ran across some really cool features that made upgrading my phones particularly tempting.
Because my old Uniden phone wasn't able to detect if there was voicemail on my OOMA telo, I was always stuck with using two message systems. I used the built in answering machine on the Uniden 95% of the time. However, if I got a call while I was on the phone, it would still go to my OOMA voicemail.
This was particularly annoying as it was easy to miss that I had a message waiting on my OOMA telo (v.s. my Uniden which would simply flash to get my attention).
Time for a better phone!
Note: The KX-TG6445t
is the 5 handset (t = titanium black) version of KX-TG6441
(one handset w/answering machine), KX-TG6442
(two handsets), KX-TG6443
(three handsets), KX-TG6444
(four handsets).
