Unboxing The Greatest Cordless Phone Ever Made... vtech LS5145
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- If there was ever a cordless phone to rule them all, this is it, the vtech LS5145. With features no one asked for, functionality beyond any other, and the promise of freeing you from your cell phone, this was a game changer. Except it wasn't, it sold poorly and eventually color screens vanished from cordless phones, along with the wacky idea that you'd want to use your cordless phone like a Bluetooth headset. At least the polyphonic ringtones and animated menus made the LS5145 a blast to use!
#CordlessPhone #vTech #TechThrowback
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I liked that the 5.8 wasn't impacted by the microwave oven.
I had one cooler than this. 1998? I had a Microsoft 900mhz cordless phone. MP-900? Base station and handset charger were two different pieces. It also connected to your PC and came with software that allowed you to record your own voicemail, play it back, save it email it etc. Contact, Call History, Caller ID and, with a later update, make and receive calls on the PC. I wish I still had it.
If you plan on doing a lot of stuff with landline phones, I distinctly remember being in a Sears store in the late 1980s or early 1990s, and they had a huge phone selection and some kind of device you could plug a few phones into (up to 4, I think), and call the other phones. If they're available, it might be worth picking up one of those devices so you can get a dial tone and test them out.
Love the new channel JR! You make everything enjoyable to watch, been a WatchJRGO subscriber since 2018 and never miss an upload!
From VTEC to VTech 😎
I remember when these where being sold
I saw it in Fry's Electronics when it came out and thought, cool...saw the price and grabbed the $20 vtech cordless phone....for my then "so cool" Vonage home phone. Still have the Vonage home phone (and the original network adapter)...but soon Vonage will go away. Kept it for all those international calls...which now the work phone is voip too. Haha.
Very cool item and awesome review!!
Back when blue LEDs suddenly became cheap enough to put in everything.
VTech was the shit to own.....
Loving all this old school tech.
I remember the Uniden and Radio Shack cordless phones back in the day. They had great range and decent options and pretty sure the Radio Shack ones were made by Uniden. Panasonic probably makes the best ones now and has great features. we have a 5 phone set now because almost every room in the house has it's own phone. They still don't really share the phone books to this day as I think you have to do something to get all the numbers shared to every phone even today. I had a phone that had battery backup in the base unit and that is certainly a nice safety feature if the power ever goes down.
I have ours hooked into a UPS so don't have to worry about it dropping offline. The ringtones are still built into the Panasonic and others now what with cell phones having all that now.
There are still color handsets out lol. We have the Ooma VoIP system here & their HC3 handset is color & works great.
I bet this can be used with those Cisco VoIP gateways! Maybe it would be interesting to set one up.
It can, but I choose the grandstream gateway because of pulse dialing support and better REN
you should do some videos on scantool software, most of the cracked versions like "throwback" windows xp... this channel has been memories for days.... thanks
I think you should do a video on how to setup up a highly secure nas. Especially considering your background.
Cool tech - But are you going to keep and/or use it?
I actually bought this new when it came out. Not going to ever use it again, haven't had a landline in 15 years or so. 🍻
@@TechThrowback I do still love a back-up hard-line... Unless someone surprises you with a Nokia 7110, you can't get much more; The Matrix.
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Knock, knock, JR .
Holup. You put a BlackBerry on the thumbnail, but not in the video? Dude I was so ready to see some mobile QWERTY magic 😁
The video on that Blackberry is coming up! 💯
Sick phone and sick vid. Thx JR
We used to have a Panasonic cordless phone with a colour screen. Very similar to that one. Landlines are now dead, most people have ceased their lines now since everyone has a mobile phone. On the Panasonic phones once you had setup your address book on 1. You could "Send to No.2, or 3" to replicate the address book.
This is good!!!
Motorola still makes multiple phones, they just arent high end
I'm fairly sure my Moto got a bit sad when he said that!....
(Hello Moto.. etc) ;(
Can we see some older, older tech? Like something from the 60's or something, might be interesting to see
The one feature I find most cordless phones are missing is a blinking light for messages/voicemail. You have to walk right up to them to read the screen saying "new message" which is stupid, instead of seeing the light blink across the room.
Not on Panasonics.
I am using a Motorola Ace for a work phone. Works just fine even though the screen has a lot of cracks in it.
the battery charging the battery got me, so cool!
I was surprised at how small the base was very cool unit! The base screen looked crunchy and awful to my eyes, maybe not in person?
Oh it's not very good, maybe 160x160 resolution 😳
Remember when those homesteads came out they would communicate with your cell phone house phone your house phone can make calls on your cell phone your cell phone could answer your house phone I wanted going so bad back in the back
Next a new old stock WRT54G. The OG wireless router creating America's favorite public wireless network 'linksys".
Nice video, I guess DECT was or is not a thing in the US.
DECT got approved in 2006 in the US. They were still selling 5.8ghz phones for a while. They even had these cheap analog 5.8 ones.
@@Johnsolerokar Thanks for your reply!
Didnt know they made VTEC phones
Wow #technology
Crazy spec's!!
Cool.
Do you not know that lg no longer make phones? Its been huge news over the past year
I’ve had that till it broke
Last 2 houses I flipped, I pulled out all the phone wiring and jacks (filled in the holes in drywall). Left the box on the side of the house and that was that. Took out all the coaxial cable cable as well.
Meanwhile, new home builders are still charging $100 each for additional network and coax outlets.
that's sad
Wow so cool
Hey!
We were using these at work until 3 years ago. Someone still bought the pallet at auction. I bet they are being used in some 3rd world country now LOL.
why does it looks like my cpap.lmfao
Lg is gone they've stopped.
If you start also reviewing new tech I bet companies would send you products
great video you should check out the panasonc brand they have some pretty good features one of them is talking caller id i think vtech has that to