Ingenious home office Fon with slight weaknesses

After my Euroset 5035 gave up the ghost and had for the Home Office anything new here that also manage contacts and can communicate with the PC, I chose to längerere research on the Gigaset DL500A. Here's an impression after some heavy use time:

The Gigaset DL500A deserves in my opinion because of its ingenious overall concept initially an extensive positive assessment:

+ Chic, stylish design
+ Appealing color display
+ Takes compared to other devices of similar design away not a lot of space on the desk
+ Very good key pressure point
+ Very good, quality feel, although the listener is used to, in my view
+ Interesting Ringtones, including guitar and relaxing Pianio
+ Callers are different tones and colors assignable
+ A LAN connection for your router or PC, when connected to the PC, for example, ability to transfer images to the Fon
+ Even included LAN cable in the delivery
+ Potential synchronization option with MS Outlook
+ 500 contacts with storable anniversary, reminder function
+ Intuitive operation - manual I have not even read for the basic functions
+ Energy-saving night shutdown of the display
+ Very good integration options: headset via 2.5mm plug or via Bluetooth, possibility to phone calls via Bluetooth (eg when the phone is in one place in the house, where it has received)
+ Call Forwarding
+ Voice mail with announcement and message text integrated,
+ Good quality telephony
+ Possibility to connect several DECT handset via DECT interface, this important option Exo Fashion Plus (Strahlunsgreduzierung)

Where there is light, is often, unfortunately, the shadow - a star deduction based on the following criticisms:

- Black piano finish in the range of keypads is highly susceptible to scratches, fingerprints (which remain in key phones so times now not) you can see immediately makes, in my view at some point a siffigen impression

- AB should have 55 min capacity - which he has, but in standard recording quality. But which is so bad that one understands sometimes difficult callers. However, we place on "very high voice quality" one (other options or intermediate steps do not exist), remained only 32 minutes. This should have been clearly stated in the product description.

- Connection for wired headset is not attached happy. Depending on the headset (I have no Gigaset Headset) disturbs the plug, the phone is no longer perfectly straight

- Enclosed Bedienungsanleituing is multifunctional for the entire device class, specific questions of DL500A only be treated in a separate manual. She is accompanied on the CD - if you want a paper version, more than 100 pages have to print yourself

- Only one LAN port (there are only two devices a higher category) allows either the connection to the router (eg, for the benefit of online phone books) or on the PC

- Maximum vulnerability: the connection to the PC via a LAN cable. Mitgliefert is the software "Gigaset QuickSync over Ethernet", which should take care of the communication between Fon and PC. Personally, I consider the program for scrap, it seeks namely constantly looking for handsets and finds none. The connection to the PC I succeeded only after laborious trial and error and the visit of several forums. I'm not an IT expert, but my computer skills really rich household. Still, it took a long time until I managed the Kommunmiaktion both devices: By assigning a static IP to the phone, the manual entry of IP in the Quick Sync program, the entry of gateway and subnet mask of the LAN connection in the phone. Very annoying, complicated and time consuming. Thick minus point.

Summa: Despite the problems described, I would buy the device again. It is very user friendly, very well equipped, ready to use joy and the price is just about acceptable. Gigaset, go for it! And working on the LAN communication.