BT Décor 2600 Corded Landline House Phone, Home Phone, Advanced Nuisance Call Blocker, Call Block Button, Handsfree, Mute Button

We purchased this phone so we could ditch all our DECT phones as we rarely receive anything important on our landline now, 99.9% of calls go to our mobiles and we make most calls on them too. Most calls on landline are scam callers anyway.The phone worked straight out of the box: it was quick and easy to set up. Be warned though, the display isn't very bright at all, so make sure you locate it in a place where there is a light or plenty of light so you can read the display.We bought this mainly so that we'd have a phone that worked in case of emergency - power cut etc - but recently our broadband / landline provider switched us over from traditional copper PSTN line (BT plug into socket on wall) to a VoIP service (now has to plug into router) as PSTN is being switched off at the end of 2025 and so everyone in the country will be forced into using VoIP (also called Digital Voice by BT) for calls if they want a 'fixed line'. So this phone now has to be plugged into a router, which of course relies on power. Such is life!But, for anyone in this position who is worried whether this phone will work plugged into a router or not, it will. You have to plug the phone cable into a simple VoIP adapter and connect that into the TEL port on your router and voila, it works as normal. Same functions. It just won't work if there's a power cut.

I've always held genuine BT branded products to be good and reliable, although invariably rarely the cheapest. This corded housephone is well up to that standard although took a bit to get used to setting up, address book, features. The separate wires (one for power) is a bit of a problem, which I solved using an intertwining coiled wire cover (not supplied). Yes, I recommend. 4 stars.

Nice size with nice size buttons and good volume, would recommend

Arrived free delivery next day. Bought for my elderly mum. The ring is really loud - I’ve never heard one as loud as this. On answering the phone it asks for the name of the caller for my mum to accept or not - she didn’t want this so we’ve turned off. She can see the number very clear of who’s calling which she wanted. I’ve shown her the blocking feature. Would highly recommend the phone.

This is a good landline phone providing you are able to set-up names and numbers of friends, family and other wanted callers by typing in their details using the buttons. If you are OK with this it will cut out all nuisance and criminal scammer calls. With calls not on your list a virtual assistant will ask them for name and details before allowing the call to come through. If they are genuine people who want to get in touch with you then there is no problem, but scammers will just hang up. Since we bought this phone four weeks ago we have not had a single scam call. Before that we were getting on average one or two of these calls each day. The advantages of this phone are: no scam calls; instruction booklet that is relatively easy to follow; caller display that is powered from the phone line so no batteries are needed. The disadvantages are: caller display not as clear as on the BT2200 but that phone needs 4 x AA batteries to power the display; not as easy to set-up as the 2200 which is a simpler phone, but without caller blocking facility. I am so pleased we bought this phone because who wants to listen to crooks ringing up attempting to steal your hard-earned cash. A great phone for vulnerable people if they are able to get someone to set it up for them.

Found no problems setting up following the Setup Wizard on first connection and power up. Most functions are easy to deal with but I have a few reservations which spoil an otherwise good product. 1. The display window has no backlight and even with display contrast set to maximum is really hard to read especially in low light conditions. 2. There are only 5 rings before answer phone cuts in which gives very little time to get to the phone and take the call. There isn't any setup option to change this. 3. The is no visual indication light that a message has been left. You can only tell by looking at the screen display to see that a message is waiting to to be played or a call has come in but no message left. Personally I consider this the worst of my reservations.In conclusion, generally speaking this is a reasonably adequate phone even though the nuisance call blocking system appears to work very efficiently.I would have given more stars if not for the aforementioned reservations.

My elderly, forgetful father in law is plagued with nuisance and even scam calls and quite often ended up paying out for things he didn't need, e.g. his washing machine was insured by 3 different companies! I signed him up for the Telephone Preference Service which made no difference. This phone goes a long way to sorting out these problems. I added all his family and contact phone numbers to the phone (very slow process), used the phone's default blacklist of know nuisance calls and activated the "announce" setting; when callers who aren't in his address book ring they must record their name and then the phone rings, when picked up you hear the name and can decide to answer or hang up. This feature seems to stop nearly all nuisance callers and most hang up rather than saying their name. The phone can also be set to send all calls to voicemail but this is too confusing for my father in law.The ring on the phone is loud and call quality perfect.The display us what stood it getting 5 stars, there is no backlight to the LCD display which means it is unreadable to my father in law, as this phone is aimed at elderly people I think it is a pity they missed the opportunity to make the phone perfect.

We initially purchased two of the Decor 2200 phones for an elderly relative some while ago which provided a good, simple and basic phone that, together with some standard BT features including Call Protect, served her needs. However, now that her dementia has become significantly more of a problem, we needed to lock her phone down much more tightly to protect her from potentially fraudulent calls and even more well-meaning calls that might add to her confusion. The Decor 2600 is a much more complex phone but the features on it have enabled us to achieve this to a large degree.We wanted to restrict incoming calls to a very limited number of contacts, which this phone has enabled us to achieve. To avoid any confusion, the two Decor 2200 phones (one in her sitting room and one in her bedroom) have been retained and the 2600 added in a remote spare bedroom and is effectively invisible to her.Many of the features on this phone such as the “Announce” feature are far too complicated for a dementia sufferer so we have set it with the call blocker on and the answer phone features set as below but with the final answer phone setting turned off. This results in only callers on the Contacts list being allowed straight through and for these the 2200 phones ring as normal. All other callers, whether or not they are on the blocked caller list, are intercepted and hear a message informing them that the line is protected and then closes the call.Getting there was quite complicated. The steps from the menu to get there are as follows:1. Reset2. Time & Date? – Set as required3. Turn on Call Blocking? – YES4. Add Contacts? – ADD (unless Contacts already added)5. Answer Phone? – OKa. Answer Mode? – ANSWER ONLYb. Answer Settings – Answer & Record – Message Alert? - OFF6. BT Call Blocking – Mode? – ANSWER PHONE7. Settings – Ringer Volume? – OFF (Min Volume is Off – this ensures that the 2600 does not ring and only the 2200 phones ring)8. Answer Phone (button top left under screen)? – OFFNote: It is important that the number for local calls are entered in full with the area code included even if you live locally and are on the same exchange. Also, we set it up initially on our home line and then plugged it in at the elderly relative’s home. For some reason, this resulted in our number being rejected even though on the contacts list. Set up again on the elderly relative’s line it worked as expected. A blocked number will result in the 2200 giving a short half ring but the message and call closing cuts in before any call can be taken.On a separate matter, some have questioned the issue of power. Both the 2200 and 2600 phones are both being covered here and the questions and reviews indicate some confusion. Both get their power for the actual phone through the external telephone line but some of the additional features require a further power source. The 2200 is the basic model and requires 4 x AA batteries, whereas the more advanced 2600 has call blocking and answerphone features - for this the 2600 has a mains adapter rather than batteries.