Good phone, the paging and intercom suck!
597788
Okay so far the phone works for its intended primary use; calling people.  The only thing I HAAAAAATE about this phone is that if you misplace one handset (as my sons and husband tend to do) and I want to find it you can page it. However, the phone that you are paging with rings too.  So you can't locate the lost one with the original one blaring away in your hand.  Also I use the intercom setting to call my boys when they are in the basement because I dislike shouting. When you try to call the phone downstairs, same thing.  The phone in your hand rings.  I don't need the phone in my hand to ring.  I know where it is and am trying to use it to call downstairs.  Obviously I am not going to be holding it up to my ear so that is just another awful thing I despise about the phone.  Maybe there is a setting I am missing, but as far as I am concerned this is a huge flaw.  I miss my old phone but can't justify getting rid of this one.  *sigh*
1885464
This is a great phone with horrible interface. If you need to do anything, you need the user manual. And, it lacks major features like an audible phone message alert. You must look at the top of the hand set to see if the light is flashing to know you have a message! Saving a phone number from an incoming call requires too many key strokes.
3873298
Buyer beware.  On paper, this is a decent phone, and I like it.  I've owned it for 3 months now and despite a few quirks that you can simply expect from a value-priced smartphone, it's excellent.  The battery is a beast, its fast enough, and has a nice finish.
Some of the quirks I've experienced include the GPS going nutty (this seems to be a common thing with the Blu phones, and may be fixed) and the phone deciding to reboot on its own occasionally.  The screen is HYPER sensitive, in a bad way.  Any slight moisture or a raindrop will cause it to be non-functional until it is cleaned off as it spazzes just a bit.
Now, the reason why 2 stars is necessary.
  I cracked the screen (MY bad) and due to the sensitivity of the screen itself, is making it pretty much a paperweight.  Have a question about servicing your Blu phone?  Just try calling them.  I've tried, all day, and I was on hold for 30 minutes.  I called again, and hung up after 5 minutes.  Next time I called, 15 minutes, all no answer.  They claim they are open and put you on hold, and that's about as far as I can get.  I don't know if I can even get it fixed through them, and it being an oddball phone it may be more hassle than it is worth.  A decent phone overall, but you are on your own.  AND BUY A CASE!
12343
The phone is fine but the menu system and operational controls leave something to be desired.  If you are not tech savvy, the menu system can be a problem.
3151964
Got this to hook up to our internet-based phone service through Comcast/Infinity.  Sound works fine, but I've been frustrated with the way the menu options work.  For example, trying to set memorized phone numbers or save or delete numbers from caller ID is very difficult.  We haven't had a home phone for years and it seems like the old phones worked better.  Or maybe I am just spoiled with smart phones!  If you don't have to set any phone numbers in the directory it works great!
3866675
Had this device since it came out and I'm finally fed up with it enough to type out how fed up with it I am, though I imagine it's too late for some as this has been out long enough to either feel similar pain to mine or to have bypassed this phone completely (which is the best idea really) for something new/better that has come out since. I will admit, honest and truly, that when it comes to some operations - mainly the browser and map navigator - this thing handles amazingly. It definitely pushes that data through very well and the battery holds up surprisingly good for such activities. The problem is, I can't even use it as a phone. More precisely, I try and use it for phone activities and it stalls and falters and sometimes (pathetically) reboots. For example, as I type this, I've been trying to send a text to a friend for almost six minutes now. The phone takes usually over a minute just to bring up my contacts when I click that button, about another half minute to fully load the list (I admit, I have a decent bit on there due to Facebook syncing), and then when I go and click my recipient I can usually expect to be treated to a minute or two (and right now I'm at about four) of "not responding" messages before it finally gives in and lets me compose and send a text, like it just did now actually. Only took about seven minutes and I always strive to make sure I have a third to half the phone's RAM open. That's quality. Same happens with the dialer too. Go into contacts, stall, look for friend, stall, click on friend, stall, stutter for about a minute when I press "dial." I guess this leads to one more positive aspect of this phone that I should mention before ending this, and that it's pretty darn durable. Because, trust me, once you've had your fifth, five-minute wait to reply to an important text, or your dozenth dropped call because the phone does not bother to actually become active when someone is ringing you, and so on, you're going to throw it at the wall. Which is why I can say this is easily the worst tech device I have ever owned and will leave it at that. Cheers...
4320016
Wow! Its big smartphone, i like it. But..

PROS: nice smartphone and beautiful background picture, camera, WiFi is work, that it.

CONS: too slow, data connection is so hell slow, hard to get connect (i live in small town),  so slow everything. I was little piss off when I was battle work with my sim card fit in that until finally get it. Ugh!  Download is OK. Battery life is soooo terrible like same bigger V8 SUV or trucks gas guzzler

I thought I buy this because could better work but boy, I was wrong. Not compare with my indigi phablet '7inch. Because indigi is faster and work everything better than that. My indigi in shop for repairs (physical damage) long story, anyway, please be careful what you did spend for, and look other better phablet than this. Thank you for read my review
2136480
First the quality, it seems to work fine. The speaker phone and regular phone all work without issue so far. Volume can be low for the hard of hearing but it is clear.

My problem with this phone system is the features and usability quirks.

1. The base has no speaker phone (I knew this before buying).
2. Each handset will display "N Missed Calls" until you manually go through each missed call in the CID list and erase them one by one. Once you've done this the handset will display the date/time which is what I would expect. There is no, erase all feature.
3. The phone system rings at a serious delay. The caller may have waited one to two rings before you actually hear it.
4. Both the listening and ringer volumes don't get very loud.
5. The usability of speaker phone is odd. You cannot toggle it. Instead hitting the speaker phone button does nothin if speaker phone is already on. You have to hit the talk button to turn off speaker phone.
6. The customer service menu item give you a internet URL instead of dialing customer service for you. I don't consider this a minus because at least something is on there.
7. The base set has no display. You can't view CIDs or manage anything from it visually.
8. The belt/shoulder piece on the back of the phone is to thin to be useful for anything.

It's not that this is a bad phone system. It's that there are a lot better designed phone systems out there. This is my first 1.9 GHZ phone but as for the 5.8 GHZ systems the Uniden TRU-8885-3 5.8 GHz Digital Cordless Phone System has much better features and usability. We had that system for about 6 years without issue. The batteries were starting to get flakey so we decided it was time to "upgrade". We sacrificed a lot of functionality for 1.9 GHZ which I hear absolutely no difference.

I don't recommend buying old tech but be careful with these Amazon reviews. It seems people will give anything that's shiney and does the basic job of a phone a 5 star rating.
1847840
It pains me to only give this phone 3 stars. The price was exceptional and has since dropped (less than 100). It's the largest screen on a phone you can get (for anywhere close to that price) and the stylus is nice if you want to keep your gloves on. The sad part is, that mine was slow- not sure if they all are or just mine was. It ran really sluggish, and yes, I filled it with apps, but my 2 year old HTC Desire 816 (hands down THE best phone I've ever owned) was faster. The 8GB of space went further than the HTC (HTC had a LOT of bloatware, but I couldn't transfer many apps to the expansion card- not sure why. Kept saying the card was full (at only 2GB of the 16!). It also is a more cumbersome process than the HTC. The volume and power buttons are on the back, right under the camera so you end up constantly touching the camera to change the volume- poor placement! Also, the speaker is in the back. I thought this would be worse than it turned out to be, but the HTC had them on the front! Exceptional sound from the HTC, and much less wasted sound. The back comes off this phone and needs to be to replace the battery (can't remove the HTC back) and add the expansion card. But the more you remove it, the easier it is to come off and has the potential of breaking. What's good about it? The screen size is what sold me on it and still is a great feature. The camera has a nice panorama feature that works really well! But then my phone's screen just randomly quit on me after 1 month. So I just can't give it a higher rating.
637628
I really loved the experience of the Windows OS, it ran smooth and clean, but the phone has some key issues:

Pros: Clean and smooth interface. Camera is quality with good lighting.

Cons: WiFi Calling/Texting doesn't work, cheap plastic feel, no front facing camera, no flash on camera.

I would recommend this phone to someone who doesn't need the WiFi calling, but unfortunately I do. It's a feature that shold work, but Nokia has messed something up somewhere that causes it to not work. Shame because I could have overlooked the cons if I could have gotten service at home, I mean let's face it the budget phones have crappy front facing cameras and all cell phone flash sucks anyway. If you want a budget Windows phone and get service without the need for WiFi help then get this phone. It's nice. Otherwise look elsewhere.
1170572
I really like the idea of a phone system based on the Android operating system. It's great having access to all my contacts and apps in one phone, with the added benefit of some light web browsing. Combine all that into a home phone system and it should be a winner. Not!

First of all, it's not really practical. You get one handset with this system and it becomes a big expense to add additional ones. It's also a bit difficult and ergonomically uncomfortable to use as your primary home phone, especially if you're used to using previous Panasonic phones. However, I discovered some major flaws that made me return this system. The problems began when I started to add my favorite apps from the app store. The first app I downloaded was ironically, the Amazon app. I immediately got a message that the app was not compatible with the version of Android built into this phone. So I skipped over it and proceeded to add some of my other favorite apps. After adding about 10 apps or less, I got a message that there wasn't enough internal memory on the phone....huh?

Before I even began to use the phone, I installed a 32gb memory card and made sure that all apps were installed directly on the memory card. Even though I verified that the apps were installed on the card, I kept receiving low internal memory notices on the screen and I was unable to add anymore apps. Anyone thinking about buying this phone should note that you can only add a handful of apps due to low internal memory. This was a real deal breaker for me.

In addition, I found the handset speaker, ringers and speakerphone volume to be unacceptably low. Overall, I agree with the previous reviewer that this phone is not up to Panasonic standards and seems more like a beta released product; a very low end Android phone. For the price paid, it should have been a much better phone system with a lot more available memory.

On another note: since this phone has access to email, Ebay and other sensitive account information you may add, all members of the house who also use this phone, will also have access to this information unless you make sure to log off of all accounts you wish to keep private.
4387150
We have had the phone for 3 months now and for the most part we are happy with the phone system:

Pros:
The battery life is good.
The distance/clarity is good - can take it into the backyard.
The intercom feature is usefull.

Cons:
The Caller ID doesn't seem to give as much info as our previous panasonic phone, such as not telling us the persons name- just giving a phone number.

Individual phones don't always ring and we rely on hard wired phones to hear the ring.

There are occasional bugs like unexplanable beeps or going to a busy signal during conversations. If these problems happen more often this is a big problem. A phone should work always, first and foremost. I will return it as defective if it continues.

The answering machine doesn't have an audible beep to let you know there is a message.
1832621
I really wanted to like the N78 - filled to the brim with all sorts of features in a very attractive case - but it was just too buggy to live with. Being able to set the phone up as a wireless access point using the brilliant JoikuSpot download was incredible, and certainly one of the things I'll miss most as I repackaged this and ship it back to Amazon.

I feel (or at least hope) that my unit was just defective, so take some of the issues I had with a grain of salt - it may not happen on all devices, but here are some of the things I experienced:

1. Camera zoom stopped working after the first picture taken. It's a digital zoom, so not the most critical thing in the world, but still annoying when you want to frame a shot and can't. This was fixed when performing a factory reset using the *#7370# combination, however once I tried re-importing contacts, the camera zoom would break again.
2. I kept getting the phone's welcome message - about twice a day - no damnit, I don't want to see an introductory video on how to use the phone, leave me alone already!
3. Browser would crash and freeze constantly.
4. Phone would randomly restart - like right after going into Contacts to make a call.

What I liked
 * JoikuSpot. One of the primary reasons I bought a Nokia - the ability to have a 3G based wireless access point on me at all times is really powerful and useful.
 * Screen. Bright, crisp, very nicely done
 * Design. Obviously very subjective, but I enjoyed looking at it in my hand - not something you can say about most Nokias
 * Predictive text. Coming from an old Motorola, I hadn't realized how horrible I had it.
 * Internet radio. I don't use my phone too much for music, but having all those internet radio stations has come in handy a few times and it's a pretty handy feature.

What I didn't like:
 * Sluggish interface. This is my first Nokia smartphone, so I was expecting to see it fly based on all the reviews comparing this to previous Nokia models. There was a noticeable lag in everything I did. With fewer than 20 contacts on my phone, it took 1-2 seconds to load my list of contacts - meaning I couldn't just press "Contacts + first letter" to start filtering names right away - I had to pause for a second or two.
 * Menu-laden UI. I know there are plenty of shortcuts for this, but really, somebody needs to be taken out back and put out of their misery for the ridiculous number of menu options put in this phone. How often do people really make video calls - does that really have to be a default option when d-padding a contact's phone number?
 * Slow default browser. Opera Mini was orders of magnitude faster, but links from emails still open in the default browser, so having that suck still makes things frustratingly slow
 * Lack of camera lens cover. Not having it makes me nervous about ever putting the phone down on a hard surface

Overall, I gave it 3 stars because I really liked the form factor, the screen, and just the sheer power of what it could do. If I could be assured that a new N78 wouldn't have the obvious issues mine had, I'd probably give it another go as there's really nothing else out on the market that has all this has for those in US 3G territory until the Xperia X1 comes out.
4769565
Well built phone, but very difficult to use.  I previously had an Iphone 4S and this is so difficult to figure out.  Right now, all my test messages are still going to my old phone that has no service.  I cannot figure out how to access voicemail.  My webmail does not work on Microsoft Office, but if I save the bookmark, it works.  Took 4 hours to charge the battery today.  What happened to an hour?  The camera sucks in low light, flash takes so long to work, but in the right light, works well.  Some of these complaints maybe user error.  No support or training from ASUS.  The webpages load very fast.  My SD card keeps saying its full even though I have a 64 GB phone??  The space bar is so close to the home button that it keeps closing the page you are typing on.  But the voice recognition works much better than Apple.  If I could get all text messaging and webmail fixed, I would give it another star.  I still refuse to pay $700 for an Iphone 6 so this is the best alternative.
2664780
This phone has the specs that should certainly add up to an incredible phone, but it's not. The screen is a great size and has a beautiful picture, large internal memory, dual core processor and an 8mp camera! However, you probably wouldn't realize a lot of it just from using it for a day. If you want to use the features of your smart phone that you pay a hefty premium for, then you better carry a charger with you everywhere you go. Even with every wifi, auto sync and gps turned off, and your brightness at the lowest setting, use your phone for more than 3 hours and it's dead. Want to look at a web page not on wifi? Better make sure you aren't updating any apps, or you will wait until it's finished before your page loads! Want to take a picture? Warn people that their face may hurt from smiling for the next 30 seconds waiting for the camera to "focus," that is- if you're lucky enough to be buy one whose camera doesn't freeze and restart your entire phone when you open it.

I realize there's much to consider, but I'm one of four close friends with the phone, each of us have had them replaced a minimum of one time, and we are all just buying time until we are eligible for an upgrade. Steer clear!!
2634250
The phone is solid, the reception is exceptional, but the menus are unduly klutzy and it lacks many of the features I got accustomed to with my old Uniden.
No speed dials, limited ringers, etc. etc.
3861630
Mainly purchased these phones so that we could useless wireless internet on our laptop and the phone at the same time - and these work as advertised.

I would have given this 5 stars; however, there is some buzz/static sound on our line while using this phone.  We've always had this issue with every phone we use for some reason, and we're not sure of the source.  We have DSL, but we have the DSL filters at each phone.  The buzz/static may not be this phone's fault, but it is keeping me from giving it a 5.

Really like the address book function, and that all phones access the same address book (put the # in one phone, and it's available on all phones).  The function of the phone announcing the caller is iffy - sometimes it's pronunciation is so terrible that it's annoying - but it's easy to turn off.

Also - we use voicemail through our phone provider.  This answering machine only has memory for under 10 messages or so - kind of a joke.