GE - 5.8 ghz Digital Messaging System Cordless Phone Review

I received this telephone as a gift from an online survey company and am very very pleased with the telephone itself.  I have only had this telephone a few weeks, but it is so far a very good telephone.  I am able to call the answering machine away from home and check the messages, this is an excellent feature.  Home telephone companies offer voice mail, but I am old fashioned and perfer to look if a light is flashing and a new message is received rather than calling a phone company to find out if messagers are stored there.  The only negative feature is the sound quality of the telephone.  When talking on the telephone you have speak loudly as the caller on the other end cannot hear you very well, even though I have the volume turned up all the way to the maximum limit.  Overall, the phone is very well and high powered.  My old phone it is replacing would lose its battery power if left off the charger for more than an hour and would only work for 30 minutes at a time.  So far this new phone is very very good.