Consumers have already been acquainted with feature-rich and sleekly devised touchscreen mobile devices that zoom on making their lives much simpler and easier while being on the wheels. To provide users with the same high-end experience at home, Gigaset recently introduced the new SL910A digital cordless touchscreen phone. Incorporating an impressive 3.2-inch touchscreen, the stylish device emerges as intuitive touchscreen telephony with an embedded answering machine. Perfect for users seeking a premium digital cordless phone, the promising Gigaset SL910A digital cordless touchscreen phone is also touted to be UK’s foremost touchscreen home phone with a full-touch user interface.
What is it?
The performance-driven Gigaset SL910A is Gigaset’s first ever digital cordless touchscreen home phone with an integrated answering machine. Designed aesthetically to complete users’ taste for sophistication, the new device has been made with a genuine metal handset frame and charger. With this one around, users can now seamlessly navigate through its three home screens with undefined ease and conveniently segregate functions into customizable information centres, message and dialing. The highly responsive user interface proffers instant access to an extensive range of calling functions at the same time, bringing forth an even more streamlined phoning.
Key features
The new home touchscreen SL910A stands apart for simplifying message retrieval. Users can easily receive voice messages, which renders up to 55 minutes of recording time. Impressively, the device also announces all new messages by accurate date and time. The integrated skip-back feature now enables users to repeat the last seconds of a message. Besides this, the phone comes equipped with a large 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen and high-quality metal handset frame and charger. Users may also appreciate the device’s intuitive user interface and three home screens. There’s Bluetooth and mini-USB as well for synchronization, wireless headset connection and downloads.
What’s innovative?
Carved ingeniously, the model catches attention by being the first touchscreen home phone with an efficiently housed answering machine. Users can indulge in up to 14 hours of talk time and around 200 hours of standby time. Sporting a pleasant look, the SL910A also allows users to answer calls and indulge in conversations for up to three days without having to recharge it. To enhance the experience, Gigaset has included customizable ringer melodies and simple, scrollable address book for around 500 vCard entries. The call lists with one-touch operation and picture caller ID is incorporated further.
Price and availability
The Gigaset SL910A should be available by now with a price tag that reads at £139.
Accessories: To leverage their home phone’s experience that comes with intelligent functions, users may opt for Gigaset L410H Clip, Gigaset DECT-Repeater and Varta Phone Power AAA T398 which are now available online.
The up side
The innovative device from Gigaset intrigues consumers with its touchscreen functionality and smart features that launch home telephony into the future. Almost like a smartphone in looks, the stylish SL910A renders a totally customizable experience with Bluetooth and mini-USB capabilities. Also, the phone gulps down less electricity through its energy-saving power supply. The variant significantly trims down the transmitting power from the phone to base station, on the basis of their distance. Users may admire the solution’s touch-sensitive user interface for quick navigation, touch multi media interface, charging and call display, and TFT VA display with amazing reading ability from all angles. Besides its admiring touchscreen, some other plus points are room monitoring, multi-lingual menu, crescendo mode, handsfree speakerphone and up to four personalized SMS Inboxes.
The down side
Though Gigaset has endowed SL910A with a metal chassis for an exquisite appearance, the device may however look slightly disappointing with its little bulky body. Unfortunately, the glass fascia and plastic buttons encounter grease pretty quickly at the same time. Also, the phone misses on the VoIP integration such as support for two landlines, Skype and access to the internet.
Our experience
The new Gigaset SL910A digital cordless touchscreen phone definitely provides users with a dramatic shift from those boring-looking home phones. Be it answering calls with details, flipping through the interface, or navigating something, the device thoroughly impressed us.
The bottomline
Integrated with a slew of great functions comprising innovative technology and an embedded answering machine, the device makes a great pick for users seeking an ideal fusion of good looks and high functionality into a compact, single home telephony model. However, with a price tag of £139 stitched to its framework, we might have to bide our time and wait for other possible flaws to be discovered, if any.
