#1 its a phone, #2 it gets me to ...
595808
#1 its a phone , #2 it gets me to websites I need Yelp, Maps (not a video or gamer guy at all), #3 holds a charge.  Has some negligible problems:  Weather (lightning) storm causes a disruption somewhat to its electronics / ok camera / the little green Android fellow was dead with chinese script below it (lines of english above it says needs to reboot) restarted and was Ok (kind of hilarious my little green R2D2 laying on its side. belly door open with Red triangular sign above it).
4421971
I've had this phone for a year and half now and in my opinion I think it's better than an I phone
4697581
I loved this when I first got it. It would call for me, now for some reason it doesn't work very well when I try to get it to call
633767
The first one went on nice and easy. I had a little trouble with #2.
58196
After having this phone for a six weeks, my strong positive feelings about it have weakened.  It still handles calls and many other things well and seems comparable to more expensive phones in various ways, but I have become disappointed in a number of other things.  I have noticed that, with the screen off and without my pressing the icons, the phone sometimes turns on DATA, SYNC and GPS at times I do not want them turned on.  This costs me data charges and how it can happen remains a mystery to me.  Sometimes texts are sent to the wrong recipients because of the way the screen is set up.  Old text recipients are listed on the general screen when a new one comes in and if one replies to the new one, occasionally it goes to an older recipient.  This happened to me more than once and was embarrassing.  The phone has bump dialed a few people because the dialing icon in the contact list is very sensitive.  It starts dialing without even offering to confirm that this is the contact you want to dial.  Deleting contacts is a pain because of the way one must press hard in a particular spot to bring up a SELECT box.  Also, there are places the wi-fi just will not connect.  I am not certain the phone is at fault because it might be the public wi-fi being too crowded, but it annoys me if it is the phone.  I tried another replacement phone, but it had the same issue.  I never expected these kind of problems, but it explains why the phone is in the lower priced region.
4593662
I get emotionally attached to my phones. I use them all day and they take serious abuse. Inside, outside, son dropping it, me dropping it. It gets cold in the garage, it gets hot in the sun. I have had my phone for several years. I never have run the battery down to where I couldn't finish a conversation. I love the use of three different phones for one price. I like being able to page the phone from the base when I left one of the units God knows where. I have had a house under construction and running my business in the same construction zone for over three years and this phone has stood the test of time. All the features work the way they are supposed to and the range of the phone works over my entire acre property. I also love the voice caller ID as awkward as it may sound. I don't have to see the screen to know who's calling. This is especially great if you are painting and don't want your phone to be the color of the day. I have had a Panasonic phone before this one and I would certainly buy another one.
1488982
I am enjoying the use of my new phone very much. Though it will take me some time to learn all it can do as I am not as electronic smart as the younger generation:) And I am certain it will remain my phone for a long time to come.
1164639
I need to update my earlier review. I noted earlier that with the unit connected to both a landline and an iPhone, that I could not dial the cellphone from the handset. I was mistaken and have since figured out how to make it work. If the phone is connected to a landline, if you hit "talk" and then dial you will be on the landline. The same is true if you dial a number and then hit the "talk" button. If you want to make a call with your iPhone, simply dial the number on the handset and then hit the "cell" button. It will dial the number via the iPhone instead of the landline. I'm still annoyed that I have to remove my iPhone from its case before plugging it into the base to charge, and am annoyed that I cannot dial the handset unless I lift it from the cradle, but in all other respects, I have to say that this is a great unit for turning your iPhone into a desktop phone.

The phone is very good but not perfect. Initially I used it with both an iPhone and a landline. It worked great with the landline, but treated the iPhone as an unwanted relation. You couldn't dial the cellphone from the handset, only pick up calls you made or received on the cellphone. Once I disconnected the landline and rebooted the unit for cell only, it worked like the bluetooth in your car. I can dial from the handset or pick up incoming calls from the handset. On the downside, the connector is too short to work with the iPhone with the case on; I have to remove the iPhone from the protective case to plug it into the base and put the case back on when I take the iPhone and leave, which is annoying. You can download your contacts into the handset, but if you have a lot of contacts, it is not very effective as you have to scroll through contacts one at a time to find the one you wish to call, and each contact will have multiple entries -  for work, for home, for fax and for mobile. It's just not worth it. On the other hand, if you keep your iPhone plugged into the base, you can simply ask Siri to dial a contact for you, then transfer the call to the handset. The answering machine in the base only works with landlines, but this doesn't really matter as the iPhone has a great voicemail system. Finally, you cannot dial the handset when it is plugged into the base, you MUST pickup the handset to dial a number. This just bugs me no end. In conclusion, this works great as a desktop setup for your iPhone, especially if you don't keep your iPhone in a protective case. If you want a desktop phone that combines a landline with your iPhone, it can do that, but the handset will not dial your iPhone for you. All outgoing calls from the handset will be via the landline. When in cell only mode, you can dial your iPhone from the handset. I did a lot of research. This phone gets 4 stars for being the best iPhone desktop phone on the market, IMHO.
3264621
I think the thing i use my smart phone the least for is actually making calls. Im on facebook and twitter and many more social media platforms all day checking my feed. This drains the hell out of my battery. I found myself constantly stranded with a dead phone. I finally got this power bank and its been life changing. I can still be using my phone constantly without the fear of ending up with a dead phone.
783078
I like it but it does have some things that are harder to use than I expected but overall it is a good phone and does what you need it to do.
1543476
i think it should have ring tones for cell phones
2874660
It does everything described.  In my case I connected it by bluetooth to two iPhones.  I used the house wiring to connect it to a VTech DECT 6.0 wireless phone with 3 wireless extensions and one standard house phone.  I disconnected the incoming local phone company wires.  When I leave the house with my iPhone, then I return, the bluetooth connects automatically.  Nothing for me to do.  All the vTech phones ring when a call comes in.  Any vTech handset or a conventional house can answer the call.  The voices are clear.  I don't know which iPhone received the call but I do see caller ID.  I don't see text messages or emails.  But that works for me.
To call out on iPhone 1, you just dial the number.  To call out on iPhone 2, you must dial "#2" then wait a second or two for the iPhone 2's dial tone.  Then dial your number.  The only negative for me is I cannot use my contact list in my iPhone.  I need to manually add my frequently dialed numbers into the VTech phone.  My preference now is to use my VTech phone for talking, even if I need to look in my iPhone contact list to find a phone number.
239830
So I bought this phone because my Galaxy S3 decided to crash on me three months before I am due for an upgrade.  I have had this phone for four days now so I may do another update to this review later.  There are a few good things about the phone that I do like.  I do like the Windows tiles.  They make things easy to navigate.  The phone itself is pretty easy to figure out.  I have only had droids in the past and I was able to figure everything out pretty quickly.  I had AT&T before and the phone recognized my sim card right away.  There are a few things about the phone that I don't like.  I can't seem to change the keyboard style.  I use patterns for my passwords.  For example, I may use the letter S pattern starting at the number 5 on a standard keyboard.  The keyboard on the phone is not like a standard keyboard so now I have to remember the letters and numbers for my passwords instead of just the pattern for the letter S starting at the number 5 on a standard keyboard.  This is not a show stopper but somewhat annoying to me.  With my S3 I could change the keyboard to several different types.  There is no expandable memory.  Again, this is not a show stopper since I will only use this phone until I can get the S5, but still you would think that HTC would have built this feature into the phone.  The battery life is very short if you use the phone.  I had to recharge the phone about halfway through the day with moderate use and you cant buy an extended battery.  This is a pain.  I had an expanded battery for my S3 and I could go a couple of days without having to charge it if I needed to.  I will be chained to my charger for the foreseeable future, oh well.
Ok, I can deal with all of that, but my biggest problem with the phone is there is no Amazon cloud player app.  My wife, and two teenagers share the same taste in music and we use one account for all of our music and reading.  Everyone in the family buys music and books from Amazon and we all have access to it (I pay for everything  LOL).  Anyway, now I have to sign up with X-box music and I don't have access to Amazon's cloud player.  This is a show stopper for me and even if I loved everything else about the phone, I would not be able to continue with a Windows phone for this reason.  Hopefully they will make an App for Amazon's cloud player.
There is one last thing that I can think of that bothers me about the phone.  I did download Amazon's kindle and it works flawlessly with this phone, but I cannot make the words bigger.  I can make them bigger, but not big enough for me to still read without glasses.  With my S3, I could make the words very big.  This is a minor annoyance really because I am always leaving my glasses at work because I never really need them at home.
Oh, there is one more thing that is irritating.  When watching videos, you cannot move the progress bar to the part of the video you want to watch, you have to click the fast forward button a number of times until you get to where you want to be.  This is very annoying.  My son did find a YouTube app that will let you have access to a progress bar, so there is a workaround for this problem at least for YouTube videos.

In summary, this phone will work for now.  I can do basic texting, e-mail, and Internet surfing, but I can't wait to get back to a Galaxy phone.
2894795
Even though I am very careful with my phone, things happen. Since I added the case, my phone fell twice. Once I was sitting and reached for it on the table and it slipped then fell on the tile. My heart races as I picked this phone up, was so relieved when I say it was still working properly. The second time I was in the parking lot and was trying to take it off with the same hand I am holding, it fell and the stand broke off at the back of the case. The impact was severe bacause it was 5 ft to pavement, roll twice, and the shock cause the phone to go off. Once I pressed the power, it was back on. I came online to buy another because of the broken stand at the back. Well worth the money!

Issue
1) Got got somewhat larger and bulky - but that's the protection I'm paying for.

2) Have to press power somewhat harder (say 50%) to get it on or off

Like I said, I will get another.
3664509
Two phone sized pockets & a third tiny pocket between.
2136093
snap part hits you in the eye when on the phone but otherwise i like it
4688566
i have been using this phone for 2 months now. the battery life, voice quality are both very good. handset is also light, and comfortable to hold.

everythings almost perfect, except for some minor wrinkles..
1 no battery indicator.. only when the phone needs to be recharged do i get a flashing battery sign
2 at max volume setting, i can hear the caller well. i would have prefferred a few more "bars" of amplification
3 pretty limited choice of ringtones, also most of the ringtones are pretty bad.