XLC3.4+ DECT 6.0 Landline Amplified Cordless Phone, Extra-Loud Ringer, Big Buttons Cordless Home Phone, Talking Caller Id & Dual Power Battery

Short review: this phone is great if you live with someone who wears hearing aids or has significant hearing loss. Longer review: My wife and I have been searching for a new house phone since our trusty vtech finally called it quits. My wife has pretty severe hearing loss and as a result wears powerful hearing aids in both ears. Because of this finding a new phone has been fairly problematic. Her hearing aids have a "telecoil" setting that's supposed to make them work better with phones. If the phone supports it, she claims that it makes a lot of differnce. Herein lies the problem, you don't know if the phone works with her hearing aids until you test it out. We have tried a lot of cordless phones marketed towards people who are hard of hearing and most of them just amplify the heck out of the sound at the cost of voice clarity. Worse still, most use cheap or substandard amplifiers that actually cause problems with my wife's hearing aids. She says they "buzz" which doesn't surprise me given how they are achieving the high decibel rating. Desperate to find a phone I started scouring amazon once again. Most of the other phones I had purchased before were in the $50 range which, while expensive for a cordless phone was less than the more expensive phones Like This one. I finally decided to suck it up and buy this phone by clarity. The reviews were mostly positive and it seemed like a quality phone. It arrived on time and was packaged well. We hooked it up in place of our current phone and tried it out. My wife says that this phone works flawlessly with her hearing aids. Best of all since the phone supports the telecoil mode, we don't really have to turn it up that loud. That being said, this phone can get ridiculously loud. The ringer and earpiece can both be set to loudness settings that might scare the bejees out of you in the middle of the night if you forget to set it to a lower volume (like me.) There are also multiple tone settings that are really great at improving the voice quality. The phone also supports another feature that I didn't even know I wanted: the base itself had a battery. If the power goes out, you can still use this phone! Most cordless phones become paperweights during power outages, so you have to hope that you cell phone still works, which it might not. Or you have to keep a hold of the wired phone "just in case." This phone worked fine during a power outage we got shortly after I installed the phone. I didn't even know about the base battery until then! As for the other features, this phone is pretty standard fair. It has a call history and address book. It has speakerphone and lights up when you call it. Most of the "expensive" stuff had obviously been put into making a phone with superb voice quality and I can tell you that it's not wasted. If your looking for a phone that has all of the features of a high end cell phone, this isn't what you want. But if you want a good solid phone that's easy for you or a loved one to hear on, this phone is worth the extra expense.

I have thoroughly enjoyed using this telephone. I wear hearing aids but it doesn't seem to matter if they're in or not, I can hear loudly and clearly on this phone, without even needing to use the boost feature. I tried a Caption Call phone for several months but was very disappointed with the captioning, since it is manually entered by someone listening in Utah and most of my conversations showed "inaudible" for the majority of the conversation. It had a volume control but was distorted when I turned the volume up. This phone, on the other hand, offers only volume control, but it works. There's a convenient wheel I can use to control the volume up to a point and if I need more volume, there is the boost button to rely on. I've never needed to even try it. The regular volume and wheel control have been able to handle every call I've had with no problem. It has additional features I haven't even bothered with yet, since all I was looking for was a phone that would allow me to communicate with callers without dreading every call for fear of sounding dumb since I couldn't hear the entire conversation. Battery life has been great, so far, but I turned the ringer off on the handset since I don't need that. I can hear our other three phones ringing clearly wherever I am in the house. Our house is about 2,500 sq. ft. and the phone works wherever I am. I just set it up and it worked great with our existing phones so I don't need additional handsets. It's a great phone for me, and the price and shipping provided by Amazon was top notch, as usual. It's good to be able to be "in touch" with people again.

I purchased this phone for my husband who has a severe to profound hearing loss. He is not elderly and doesn't need a phone with large buttons. Unfortunately, for the level of amplification needed (50 db) most of the amplified phones on the market have large buttons so it was nice to finally see a traditional looking cordless phone. After doing some research online with a vender who sells products to people who are deaf/hard of hearing, I decided to go with the Clarity XLC 3.4 model. Amazon had the best price of course! Two features that my husband uses regularly are the boost setting which controls the loudness of the receiver. When it is selected, an extra level of amplification is added over the entire range of volume control up to 50db. This isn't the norm for amplified cordless phone. There is dial on the side which controls the level of volume for the handset and speakerphone up to 16db of volume. In the menu setup you can select the Auto Boost feature so the Boost function will be ON every time a call starts. When I use the phone, I just press the Boost button to turn OFF the Boost function for my call. When I hang up the phone, the Boost function will remain ON. Another feature is the Tone button which allows the caller to change the style of amplification. By pressing the TONE button the caller can toggle between the different settings. This is great if you have a person on the other end of the line who speaks softly or if you hear low and/or high tones better. I find myself using this phone personally because I hear better on it. Speech is not just louder but clearer and easier to understand. Two features that I like are the Voice Assist which utilizes your Caller ID service to "read" incoming phone numbers as well as the "say" the phone number you dial out. Now I can listen to the incoming phone number without having to read the Caller ID and know if I want to answer the phone. Secondly, there are ringer controls on both the hanset and base. You can have both set to ON or both set to OFF or only the base ON and receiever OFF or the base OFF and the receiver ON. Trust me, you will use it. Installation and set up were straight forward. The most difficult part was waiting for the phone to charge before using. You can add additional handsets, sold separately, that will work with this model. NOTE: Clarity XLC3.1HS Amplified Cordless Handset (59231) sold by Amazon does not work alone but in conjuction with this model. I knocked off one star because of the price. However, I was willing to pay this amount to get the features necessary.

The product is defective; dead batteries; the handset is not connecting to base! Total waste of money!!! There is no way to reach seller or Amazon customer service. The seller is very very bad! I don't know how Amazon is allowing such a vendor to sell their products! I'm loosing confident with Amazon!

A un mes de uso muy contenta mi mamá de 76 años, fácil de usar, excelente volumen

I purchased this phone for my mother who is 74 and wears a hearing aid. She loves it! I used it a few times and for my ears it can get pretty loud; in addition, the speakerphone is nice and loud too. The displays and buttons are large enough, without looking like a Fisher Price toy lol. Another excellent design is the "ear cup". Yes, it is not a basic ear phone "hole" which is hard to position by elderly with hearing aids... it is an actual "ear cup" which is large enough to fit completely over the ear and hearing aid. Very good phone!

to operate this product in india , you need a separate jack.the phone is being sold in amazon india website, one would expect it will be conducive to plug points and jacks in india. unfortunately a big and expensive mistake in purchasing it.

AMAZON PRICE UNEQUALED. HIGHEST VOLUMED PHONE. 4 TONE SETTINGS ENHANCE AUDIO TO PERFECTION. THE BEST PHONE ON THE MARKET. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION.