Can anyone recommend any landline phones with an illuminated display?

I need to change my phone and like most people I've got used to all the features offered by mobiles but sadly still lacking on fixed line phones...... and a back-lit lcd is one of them.

Many people these days spend much of their evenings in softly lit rooms you'd have thought the manufacturers would have seen the need for this.

If you get one, be careful to check it out first.

I got some moderately expensive panasonics, and although the phones are fine in general, the displays are really poor. Particularly if you are not looking at them head on.

This is a problem if you have caller display and 'pick up to answer' set, since it's all but impossible to see who's calling with the phone a foot or so below eye level, and it's already answered and the caller information has disappeared before you can see it properly.

I could disable pick up to answer, but I generally prefer it.

I've seen phones with that high contrast blue backlighting and they seem much easier to read.

The first thing I do is disable answer on pick up, I hate that feature.

I liked it until I got caller display.

I think I might disable it now, though.

We bought the BT home phones that look and work just like mobile phones with a colour screen that lights up when the phone rings and is menu driven like a mobile and with different ringtones and wallpapers. Even has a couple of games on them, not that anyone ever has time to play them! They are tiny too with good sound.
You can also insert your mobile phone sim to copy across all your addresses.


They are BT Calypso 1100. There's also Calypso 120 which you can also do text messages on and several other home phones that have a large LCD lit display.
Last edited by HandyBendyWendy : 09-01-2006 at 11:39

Remember the TRIM-phone? That had an illuminated dial!

However today a dim (no pun intended!) would be taken as to how the GPO achieved this - it was actually Radioactive!