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Function without Frills: Gigaset A160/A260

Do you always find yourself chomping at the bit, scowling with impatience and annoyance at the utter lack of convenient features in your cordless phone? Not that you want a fancy piece of cordless phone but you definitely hanker after something that lets you do more than do calls and receive them, right?

Siemens hears you. And the new range of Siemens cordless phones attest to that. The A160 and A260 are the units you’ve been wanting to get your finicky hands on. These cordless gadgets admit no frills, but they sure exhibit a touch of class in the simple designs they sport. Functional doesn’t have to mean bare and tasteless. There is always room for a bit of stylish flair in anything, particularly in something as deeply enmeshed into modern existence as communication tools like phone systems.

The illuminated display as well as keypad helps you identify and type in key information so you can do your calls much quicker, a phonebook lets you store fifty names and contact numbers so no need to poke around your desk or office looking for a scrap of paper upon where you ended up doodling the number of an extremely important business contact and the hands-free feature allows you hands-free calls so you can talk and scribble musings essential to the topic at hand, at the same time. Caller recognition is also possible with the CLIP function, so long as the caller information has already been entered into the phone’s directory. Thus, you can get a moment or two of mental preparation before you pop open the phone and say “aye.”

So for phones that add a couple of handy features without any of the complicated arrangements that other units call for, the A160 and A260 are the devices certain to compel you to a few merry rounds of hearty huzzahs.