BT Duet 210 Corded Telephone – White Updated for 2024
BT Duet 210 Corded Telephone – White
- 10 number memory
- Last number redial
- LED call indicator
- Mute facility
- Wall Mountable
DUET210 Corded Telephone with 10 Number Memory, LED Call Indicator, Last Number Redial, Mute Facility & Wall Mountable
List Price: £11.99
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Similar to the BT Duet 20 but the phone has a different curly cable (straight at one end with the BT plug on it.,
I actually like the style of the Duet phones so bought the updated 210 model.
Someone has mentioned in a review about getting charged for a 15 hour phone call because this phone had not cut off when he replaced the receiver.
When we had our first phone ( I was 14) we had a party line so we all ALWAYS checked we got the dialling tone back again before putting the receiver down and I have done this after every call I have made since. Do this everytime even when someone has rung you and you can’t lose.
All you do with this phone is plug it into the BT socket and you’re ready to go.
No choice of ring sounds except you can choose a loud or quiet sound and the quick dial numbers (only 10 – numbered 0 – 9) were easy to set up.
Sound is great, no crackling though the voices sound a little “sharper” than on the earlier model.
One thing which did surprise me is that unlike the previous model the cable from the BT socket to the phone does not plug into the !gondola holder like before – the cable leaves the BT socket and travels along loose and then is fed into a groove under the gondola, it runs along the length of the gondola underneath and comes loose from the gondola and plugs into the handset – in other words no data or sound is entering the gondola at all it goes straight to the handset.
I am sure a generic extension curly cable WOULD NOT work with this model as the cable just goes straight from the BT socket into the handset and the gondola merely acts as a stand for the handset. The handset’s button that you can wiggle to get the dialling tone back is merely pushed in by a bump of plastic on the gondola when you hang up. On the previous model this moving button was on the gondola not the handset which is how I spilt coffee on the button.
So the extended curly cable shown as “a buy with this item” by Amazon won’t work with this phone at all.
If you want a longer cable from the gondola to your ear – you simply remove the cable from the groove and fit part of its straight end from nearer to the BT plug into the groove and buy a short extension cable to run from the BT socket to the plug of the phone.
For under a tenner I am very pleased.
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Very happy for many reasons,
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