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

An elegantly straightforward and easy to use phone plus answering machine. The menu is easy to use with almost all of the facilities simple and intuitive to access and use. The call blocking facility and its associated features make the purchase worthwhile by themselves. I do agree with some other reviewers who have pointed out the phone is very light. A little more heft to the unit would be welcomed, likewise an option to illuminate the display panel to make reading the messages easier.

Works as advertised. The manual’s good. Only niggles: sound quality on speakerphone is adequate rather than good, and you can’t edit stored phone number lists (unless I’ve misunderstood): the only options are to add numbers or delete them all. On the plus side, so far the call blocking feature has deterred all scam calls and let all honest callers through. It’s great! You just turn on call blocking, and any caller whose number isn’t stored in the phone gets a short message from the phone asking for their name to get past the call blocking feature before the phone rings. If they do, the phone rings, you receive a short message from the phone replaying their name while the display shows the caller’s phone number, and the phone tells you what button to press to either accept or reject the call. Scammers just hang up and the phone never rings (the display tells you about those calls and the caller’s phone number) and it’s very easy to store a caller’s number in either the phone book or whitelist.

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.

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.

Brilliant phone

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.

Having upgraded the model to have a power supply rather than batteries, it’s a real shame they didn’t induce a back lit didplay as others has said, an absolute opportunity missed, it would’ve been five stars without a doubt then

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.