Uniden CellLink ELBT595 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Flip Phone with Color LCD, Answering System, and Bluetooth Capability

5 Responses to “Uniden CellLink ELBT595 5.8 GHz Digital Expandable Cordless Flip Phone with Color LCD, Answering System, and Bluetooth Capability”

1. Arrazzamatazz says:

   March 10, 2010 at 8:10 am

   The phone has the typical confusing, inadequate 100 page manual. Further, the manual has the usual poor index, so it is frustrating trying to find the items you are looking for. Even if a piece of software or electronic divice is full of great functions, it is useless if it takes a long time, or impossible to figure out. I spent a long time trying to figure out some of the functions, and some I was never able to get. My secretary is very frustrated with this phone.

   Also, even at the highest setting the volume is too low. Poor Sound quality.

   Mobile phone won’t work with it.

   This phone is way too confusing, and poor quality for the price.
   Rating: 1 / 5
2. K. Lavine says:

   March 10, 2010 at 10:15 am

   This whole phone system is rather awesome — in the design, use, and flexibility. I am a rather fickle phone person — changing phones about once a year. However, if this system retains its overall usefull-ness and capacity, I may actually hold on to it for quite a while! Highly recommended.
   Rating: 5 / 5
3. D. Thompson says:

   March 10, 2010 at 12:31 pm

   This may be a naive statement and or thought but: You’ve got your land line/Mobile line that can link with your cell phone. If Bluetooth and CellLink can access your cell account (keeping in mind that it’s bouncing around out there in the wild blue yonder and bouncing off cell towers and your cell phone) why can’t these phones (Uniden CellLink ELBT595) use the bluetooth/link-up technology and latch on to your cell account via the tower? When you link up to your cell phone with this ELBT595 it’s still has to bounce a tower for account info and so on, does it not?
   
   Maybe all info is in your cell phone but it does access a tower and transfers data.

   Can anyone say “Bluetooth in the sky/tower databases?”

   Why can’t we use this phone as a land line then grab one of the phones and walk out the door, switching to a mobile line…….. and presto chango.. You need only one phone for home and travel.
   
   I have this phone and an extra handset. So far, so good. I like it a lot. I did not need a camera, pda, music, etc., on this phone, so it’s great. But, I never seem to read anyone griping about having to use a land line and a cell.
   
   They’ve combined so much technology in these new cell phones, would it really be so hard to take an extra step with the ELBT595 and allow the phone (while in mobile mode) to access a cell phone account without owning a cell phone(with bluetooth)?
   
   Simplicity is such a wonder to me these days and often I feel technologically challenged.
   
   Of course, I’ll be a dork too, if someone replies to this, informing me that it is already being done. But… I shall save judgement on myself. I’m sure someone can and will fill in the blanks for me.

   Tell me that someone else has the same q’s….
   
   Dawn

   Rating: 4 / 5
4. user says:

   March 10, 2010 at 1:07 pm

   This phone is designed to look like a cellphone and it even has features that look like they’d work like cellphone features. If you only need a facsimile and not useful features, this phone is for you. The fact that you can’t edit caller ID numbers (like adding a 1) when you move them to the directory is astonishingly stupid. It seems like this phone was made by people who had seen cellphones but never used one.
   Rating: 1 / 5
5. Robert C. Charley says:

   March 10, 2010 at 4:03 pm

   An excellent phone system, though a little complicated to set up initially.
   Rating: 4 / 5