Siemens Gigaset presents new DECT phone
The Siemens Gigaset S670 and S675 with integrated answering machine have an extra-large illuminated display (supporting 65,000 colors), a clearly laid-out keypad, intuitive icon based menus, and superior sound. With a metallic chrome and matt black finish and novel “L-shaped” base station, the Siemens Gigaset S670 & S675 will make a handsome addition to any home or small business office. These new S-class phones have a nice feature set. Such features include an address book that can store up to 250 contacts, and each contact entry can contain a name, up to three different numbers, an email address and a birthday. This new range of Gigaset phones can also send and receive text messages up to 640 characters long.
The Siemens Gigaset S675 has an integrated answering machine that has up to 40 minutes recording time. The answer machine can also send a detailed SMS to a mobile or external phone when you receive a message (service provider dependent) and messages can be retrieved remotely.
The volume can be adjusted easily on the handset. Also: You can expect to use up to 60% less energy in comparison to conventional power supplies. The base station transmitting power is adjustable, and when the phone is docked in the base station, the transmitting power is reduced to almost zero. Furthermore, when multiple handsets are used (up to six additional handsets can be used at any one time), users can manually reduce the transmitting power, which in turn reduces the phone’s indoor range by approximately 25 to 30 meters.
The Siemens Gigaset S670, S675 are on sale August 2007. The Siemens Gigaset S670 is priced at 79.99 Euro and the Gigaset S675 with answering machine at 99.99 Euro – an additional handset including cradle costs 79.99 Euro.
Iintegrated answering machine offering 40 minutes recording time is awesome.
Is it just me, or does plugging in the S675/Duo phone stop anyone else's broadband from working??!!
I think I am going to take it back. In the last day, each time (and I've tried this a lot of times) I connect the phone to the phone line, my broadband connection dies, and it comes alive when I unplug the phone again... It's definitely too often to be coincidence!
Hum,
Just discovered there's a S675IP from another article.
But there is no S670IP . What a pitty. Why anybody need to pay an answering machine at home instead of using telco provider voice mail ?
It would be a biggest approach to sell a "big family pack"...S670 IP base + 4 or 6 handsets. Now, any family member could have his handset with his phone number !
Hello Nicolas
Just to comment and say my family (esp wife) prefers a local answering machine because it is (generally) easier to know you have incoming phones waiting on the answering machine and how many, no special action to be done.
Also because one unique answering machine for two lines seems simplier than one special for the PSTN and another one for the VoIP lines, especially when they have different Man Machine interfaces !
My concern is more on the fact i would like to get hold of a S675 IP for use in France and can't take it for granted it is multi lingual where ever it is sold. Especially when I read the documentation (in different languages, ...) and it doesnt speak of setting the answering machine speech synthesis language !
Does any one have some experience on this ?
Regards
Nick
Hi Nick,
I could understand.
But :
- my analog line (France Telecom) voice mail raise a LED on my S450IP and send me a mail when a message was recorded. The mail could be forwarded as an SMS. The voice mail could also send directly a SMS against a fee (I use it when on hollidays). A record box on phone can't do that.
- my VoIP voice mail send me the message by mail.
When will the S670 be available for sale in the USA? No one seems to know...
Anyone know if the phones can be used in Canada?
Power adaptor?
Thx