"The Siemens Gigaset S685 is a fantastic Best Buy cordless phone and answering machine. Overall performance is excellent and it’s packed with advanced features."

The fashionable phone for wireless convenience with Bluetooth® plus an integrated answering machine

With an integrated answering machine and cutting-edge Bluetooth® wireless technology, the Gigaset S685 offers you the very best in style and convenience. As soon as you hold the fashionable titanium handset in your hand, you’ll realize the quality of this phone. The design alone makes it very attractive, but it’s also full of technology to make your life easier. For example, keeping track of your messages while you’re not at home, is a breeze with the remote playback function. With Bluetooth® and Gigaset QuickSync software, you can also enjoy instant address book synchronization – so the vCard entries stored in your phone will always be up to date with your PC. You can even use a wireless headset to enjoy the freedom of handsfree talking. Thanks to new energy-saving ECO DECT technology, this model also uses up to 60% less energy than our conventional cordless phones – so it saves you money and is better for the environment.
If you’re someone who has to have the very latest in design and technology, the Gigaset S685 was made for you. This Bluetooth® phone with answering machine is a high-tech companion for people who demand nothing less than the best.

An answering machine for keeping in touch

You’ll never miss another important call thanks to this phone’s integrated answering machine featuring up to 40 minutes of recording time. New messages are displayed on the phone’s handset, so you’ll know someone tried to reach you even if you’re away from the base station. You can also easily keep track of who called and when because the Gigaset S685 announces the date and time of new messages by voice. For added convenience you can operate the answering machine via the handset or base station, so you can check up on new messages from wherever you are in your house. If you’re away from home this phone will even alert you when you receive a new message via SMS. You can then simply use the remote playback function to access that message from anywhere.

Handsfree talking for more convenience

Designed to give you more calling freedom, the fully-featured Gigaset S685 lets you make handsfree phone calls in brilliant sound quality with the convenience of adjustable volume control. That means you’re free to chat with your friends while you get on with other things around the house.

Bluetooth® for everything wireless

When you think Bluetooth®, you naturally think wireless. But what exactly are the wireless conveniences you can enjoy with your home telephone? There’s the freedom of talking with a wireless headset, of course, but there’s also something even better – a quick and easy way to transfer vCard contacts to or from your cellphone and PDA with Bluetooth® technology. If you have Microsoft® Outlook®, you can even synchronize the data on your PC with your handset using our free Gigaset QuickSync software. And of course this wireless technology also lets you download screensavers and Picture CLIP images.

ECO DECT for a greener lifestyle

Featuring an energy-saving power supply, the Gigaset S685 uses up to 60% less energy than our conventional cordless phones – so it saves you money and is better for the environment. Like all Gigaset cordless phones, it also variably reduces transmitting power from the handset to base station according to their distance apart – but goes further in a number of other ways. Choosing ECO Mode on this model allows you to reduce the base station’s transmitting power by 80% for all registered handsets. When docked, this phone also reduces the transmitting power of both handset and base station to almost zero. As a result, you can enjoy a more energy-efficient way of staying connected with the world.

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