Siemens Home and Office Communication Devices (SHC) is following up on the success of its Siemens Gigaset C450/455 with the Siemens Gigaset C380 as well as the C385 with an integrated answering machine. The Siemens Gigaset C380/385 offer long standby and talk times, ECO DECT, brilliant voice quality and handsfree calling. They can also be used to send and receive SMS text messages.

The handset’s standard batteries let users call family and friends for up to 25 hours and can go up to 240 hours without being recharged. The phonebook has room for 150 entries for people with a lot of friends, and handsfree calling is a snap: The user just plugs a standard headset into the 2.5 millimeter jack on the handset. The Siemens Gigaset C385, with an answering machine that can record up to 25 minutes of messages, ensures that no call is lost.

Thanks to the ECO DECT technology, the Siemens Gigaset C380 and C385 cut power consumption by up to 60 percent compared with conventional Siemens Gigaset phones. They slash the transmitting power needed by nearly 100 percent when the handset is idle or being charged.