BT Calypso 225

I had Panasonic phones previous to buying BT Calypso. I am ready to ditch my Calypso phones and go back to Panasonic. For the first two to three months they were fine, apart from not being able to hear caller very clearly through handset. The battery life is apalling and, like other reviews, everytime we get a call or try to make a call, the handset switches off - it's a good job we have mobile phones !!

Don't bother wasting your money on a BT Calypso 225. It will make strange (and sometimes loud) noises at any time of the day or night that can go on and on for several minutes - almost sounds like aliens trying to get in touch! The battery life is appalling and I have yet to find replacements. The handsets will just switch off as soon as you try to answer a call. We are now down to one of the 4 handsets that will work for calls and answerphone messages, even the one handset that was recently replaced has died on us. After spending over £200 on this set of phones I have tried to stick with it, but I think I will have to give up and try another manufacturer.

I brought this BT Calypso 225 phone after having the elder version previously. With a double handset....the second of which needn't be plugged into a phone line, just an electrical socket....it seemed just the job. In actual fact, nothing has worked right with the phone from day one. It was correctly charged before using, and still the battery life is way below average. I have purchased more rechargeable batteries at a cost of a quarter of the phone itself. These I give a good charge fro their own charger before use. Talk time is low.....a loud battery low warning would nearly deafen you. The answerphone has a life of its own. More often than not I get a 'not available' talk bubble and cant retrieve my messages. Other days it will play, but by then they are not worth listening to.

I am only waiting for it to die a complete death before I lash out on another one........from any manufacturer but BT.

If you are considering buying this phone, then my advice would be to read a few reviews beforehand and buy anything but the BT Calypso 225.

I was desperately disappointed with the twin phone setup I bought from BT. If I had paid £10 for it I would have felt cheated, but £60 was a complete buying disaster. The whole user experience was so bad that I found myself deliberately not using the phone. Fortunately the phone resolved the problem for me by breaking down completely. Overall, complete rubbish product.

For the £32 I paid i think the BT Calypso 225 is not bad at all! I've had it for 3 weeks now and it works great!

The first thing that I liked about the BT Calypso 225 was the ability to add numbers from my mobile phone to the address book using the SIM reader. Great facility as there is no way that I can ever remember all of the mobile numbers of friends and family and I can save 200 on here.The BT Calypso 225 has quite small keys, which I did think that I was going to regret, but I haven't miss-dialled yet so either my fingers are quite as fat as I thought they were or the keypad isn't actually that small. The button are quite fun too and 'squidgy', which I like. I have to admit that I quite like tinkering with this phone and messing around with the different facilities as it is a bit like a mobile. You can send and receive text messages too, although when you are sent one you get a female robotic voice trying to decipher what you have written in your abbreviated text language. My son loves the games on the phone and the fact that we can talk to his grandparents on speaker phone, which has now become a Sunday afternoon ritual whilst I prepare lunch. The keypad lock is also a great feature when I am out of the room and my son thinks that dialling random numbers is a good idea. There is also the facility to make internal calls, which is a bit like having an intercom and great when I am trying to assemble the rabble at the table for dinner and a 'page' button for when 'someone else' has walked off with the phone and can't remember where they put it down.I am very happy with this all singing, all dancing telephone and am more than happy to recommend it.

The BT Calypso 225 had a low speaker volume even at the highest setting, no voice clarity.

Disappointed.