PRODUCT: Panasonic KX-TG5439 5.8Ghz Phones

Following in the footsteps of Kevin Drum endorsing fabulous products, I want to blog about my home phones, the Panasonic KX-TG5439 5.8GHz. If you are one of the diminshing few who actually have a home phone line, these phones are incredibly useful. There are all sorts of really cool phones and "phone systens" made by Panasonic, actually. However some of those are full of features you may not need and can get sorta pricey, i.e. over $200.

However, the model pictured to the left is pretty cheap ($89.99 at overstock.com) and has lots of useful (and often used) features. Both handsets have extremely clear and loud speakerphone abilities, plus they come with caller-id, directories of calls made and a very cool intercom mode. This is the feature that I use the most; you can basically use the phones as walkie-talkies to talk to "the other person in the house" instead of having to walk all the way to find your spouse in order to ask them something, you can just talk to them via the intercom. There are actually a bunch of other features the phones have that I haven't used (there is some voice enhancement feature that I don't even know what it does). I suppose these phones won't be as useful to people in small apartments or if you don't have a home phone line, but otherwise I think these gadgets are indispensable.