Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230)

Reviews of Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230)

1.) Excellent Phone
Reviewed by: Paul K
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We bought this phone for my mother-in-law who is to phones the exact opposite of Will Rogers to people. She never met one she liked. This one, however, has enough adjustment range in both volume and tone, has a simple to operate answering machine and a cordless handset so that she actually seems to like it. It's an excellent phone for anyone who has trouble hearing on a "regular" phone.

2.) Good phone for hearing impaired
Reviewed by: TB Shelton Memphis, TN United States
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I bought this phone for my mother who is very hard of hearing but refuses to use hearing aids. I no longer have to spend our phone conversation screaming and not being heard. My parents are not very tech savy but did not have much difficulty setting this us. They have also called customer service for the phone a few times and found them to be very helpful also.


3.) Excellent for the hard of hearing
Reviewed by: Strawberryrain Utah USA
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My 86 year old Gram does NOT like changes. But after her phone from 1970 started falling apart, I talked her into getting a new one. After careful searching, this is the phone I thought would work best for her. It has all the features she wanted and FINALLY she can hear me over the phone. It is simple enough to learn to use, and was a very smooth transition. I highly recommend this phone.

4.) Great amplified phone.
Reviewed by: Scott Mcclellan
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This is a fine phone. I can now talk with my 86 year old mother for the first time in years.

5.) Best phone on the market for the hearing impaired
Reviewed by: Steve Pringle Loomis, Wa
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Bought this phone system for my 80 plus yr. old Dad who is very nearly deaf and had tried numerous devices to enhance his ability to hear on the phone. I read all of the reviews and discounted the negative reviews on setup etc. It is very easy to set up, program the phone and get the answering system operational. (takes about 20 min). It is a "GREAT" phone system and even my nearly deaf Dad doesn't need more than 38 to 40 db. I am seriously thinking about one for myself as my hearing has been bad for years and some phone conversations are a challenge. The phone system is expensive, but worth every penny if you or a loved one has a hearing disability.

6.) Excellent product
Reviewed by: (Customer) Florida
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My mother was not hearing one-half of a conversation so I got her an amplified phone. However, she wanted to keep her caller id and her answering machine along with a cordless phone capacity. This product met these needs and she can hear on the phone and it makes talking to her so much better!!!!!

7.) Clarity 5.8 GFHZ
Reviewed by: LILLIAN pINDIAK Cobleskill, N.Y.
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This phone amplifies sound well. I am now able to hear those calling me - even when it is a three way conversation. A bit expensive but worth it to me. I really enjoy keeping in contact with my family by phone.

8.) great hearing aid
Reviewed by: Robert Mann
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Strongly recommended for telephone hearing aid. Rather complex programming, but worth any difficulties.

9.) Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone
Reviewed by: A loving son Iowa
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I purchased the Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230)for my mother who is deaf without her hearing aids. She was experiencing problems in getting her hearing aids synchronized with a standard phone making it impossible to have a phone conversation with her.

Now with this phone all she has to do is push one button and the caller's voice comes over a clear and loud speaker in the phone allowing her to have a normal conversation.

I wish that I had found this phone years ago.

-A loving son.

10.) Costly battery replacement
Reviewed by: C. Redfield Denver CO USA
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We got this phone for my mother. She has enjoyed it and it has helped. After a little over a year the batteries are going out. They can't be purchased locally (we tried many stores). You must order them from a subcontractor of Clarity and they are $25 each. We will get them. The phone is worth it but it is a hidden cost one should know about.

11.) CLARITY 4320-FOR HEARING ASSIST
Reviewed by: Charles H. Brown PA
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I found this phone through my hearing aid provider, "Hearing Best" . Checked it out on line and purchased it on line because it was $40.00 Cheaper. I did give my provider an opportunity to match the price but no respone.
The phone works quite well, with good support from Clarity but is a little complicated to set up. Requires the manual help to complete the job. Has all the functions any other quality phone supports and does provide "high volume with good clarity". The phone works on a multiple phone system with other phones. I purchased the mode with a recorder. It works well but the answering system will not function unless voice mail is removed from the phone system.
I would purchase this phone again if I needed another phone.

12.) Clarity 5.8 GHz Cordless Phone and Digital Answering Machine (C4230)
Reviewed by: Laura Olson Palm Springs, CA USA
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Bought phone for my 84 year old mother who is both visual and hearing impaired (and technologically impaired). She learned basic operations quickly and loves the bright lights that flash when there is a message or in-coming call. The amplification booster feature is "too loud" and that is the first time I've heard her say something was too loud in a long time!

13.) Great phone for my Mom
Reviewed by: EIW South Florida
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My Mother is hearing impaired and has had a lot of difficulty with phones, espcially cordless ones. This unit, with the built-in answering machine, is a major breakthrough for her. The sound is clear and loud and the features are relatively easy to use. The only negative is that the buttons on the answering machine should be bigger to make it easier for the elderly and vision impaired. Overall this is a great phone.

14.) Worked well... except
Reviewed by: Gene Texas
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Bought this for my Mother-In-Law, who has problems hearing (she's 87). Everything works great, with one exception. The message delete function isn't straight forward. For old folks, everything should be straight forward! The message has to be playing to delete it. That's not straight forward!

15.) Limited Clarity
Reviewed by: M. Morgan
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This is a great cordless phone as long as you don't wander more than one room away from the charging station. The range of the phone is my biggest complaint. I literally find it difficult to go more than one room away without loosing reception. For the price, you think they would do something to improve this feature!

16.) Not so good
Reviewed by: Fun Shopper Edgewater, Fl . USA
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Bought this for my mom who has a hearing problem. It wasn't the phone I expected it to be since it was CLARION. We bought a cheaper Clarion phone at Target and it beats this one hands down.

17.) Not for the Technology Challenged
Reviewed by: jeg Atlanta, GA
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I bought the base station and one remote unit for my parents. They are technology challenged, but it's only a telephone, right? Nothing but problems. When it works, it does so as advertised. They finally figured out the volume control. They know which button to push when they notice that they have messages. But the remote handset is a boat anchor. It's maybe 30 feet away and rings when a call comes in, but when they pick it up...nothing. They've had people try to help them with it (I'm 850 miles away) but no luck. So they stuck it in a drawer ($135) and bought a $9 phone at Walgreens. Just great.

18.) not as good as it sounds
Reviewed by: Richard Trachtenberg
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I bought the phone for my mom who is hard of hearing... Neither she, my sister nor I found the sound very good. It sounded tinny and the adjustments did not make much of a difference.

19.) Claity is Terrible on This Phone
Reviewed by: P. Hammer
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I purchased this phone because of the features of an answering machine, speaker phone and wireless handset. The clarity is terrible, and it sounds as though people are talking in a tunnel. Even members of my family with excellent hearing say the clarity is terrible. I'm returning the phone because it's useless.

20.) Don't buy this phone.
Reviewed by: Debra S. Krzanowski
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We can't leave the room the base is in or we lose contact. Our voice breaks up to anyone on the other end. We are very disappointed especially when it is an expensive phone. We replaced it with our old $80 phone we used prior.

21.) Great phone - when it works!
Reviewed by: W. Henderson Edgewood, New Mexico United States
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Purchased this item (Clarity Professional #C4230, Revision H on August 14, 2009. Received item August 19th. Handset quit on September 26th. The base unit (speakerphone) continues to function. This morning I telephoned Plantronics customer service and explained the issue. CS rep bypassed any attempt to diagnose problem, just advised me to return the phone to their Chattanooga address and stated I would receive a complete new phone. I can't complain about the replacement but I can complain about the shipping cost I'll eat and effort involved. I had reservations ordering this items due to the high percentag of dissatisfied user reviews who had ordered this item and had experienced malfunctions similiar to mine. Also I see Amazon has recently reduced the price of this item. Buyer beware! I got stuck with a turkey!

22.) Phone doesn't ring
Reviewed by: Kathy Sierra
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We've been through two of these phones now and most of the time they don't ring. Other phones in our house wlll ring but not this one. Bought it for my mother who has to wear hearing aids. The volume is good but the clarity is not that good. Would not recommend this phone.

23.) I love it and I hate it - one seriously screwed up phone
Reviewed by: M. McKown California
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The power supply needed to be replaced once, a few months after I bought it. Then came the really chronic problems. On many occasions, the phone just plain would not ring. Other times, the ring was intermittent, as though the "ring signal" was being interrupted.

The biggest problem is the handset becoming non-functional. The phone rings, you pick it up, hit the TALK button, and nobody's there. When this failure mode is going on, it's also impossible to get a dial tone. The solution? Pull out the battery for one minute, then set the handset back on the cradle. Then it beeps to indicate it's working correctly.

Sometimes, doing even that won't work, and it's necessary to both remove the battery and unplug the power for a moment.

This is a real pain in the butt. Why Clarity/Plantronics' engineers haven't fixed this is beyond me. Again, this is the third identical phone from them; they have replaced it twice.

This handset problem is now occurring a few times daily, and this is unacceptable. I'm currently searching for a replacement.

Update 7/8/09: I neglected to mention that the Caller ID feature quit working on my current C-4230. LOL

Due to its chronic problems, I can't recommend the Clarity C4230...but I wish I could.

24.) DISATISFIED
Reviewed by: Shakuntala K. Asnani nc
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Re. Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital...
I have been trying to find a contact phone number or way to contact this company for months. I am extremely unhappy with this Clarity phone & would like to return it. The reasons for return are: Box was torn on arrival, appeared to be a used phone, couldn't hear voices properly, could not set the message machine formore than 3 rings; could not use a head phone jack as there is no jack. There were a few other problems I cannot remember them all. I could not locate their return address or phone number easily. My emails to them kept coming back to me. I contacted my credit card company and lodged a complaint. Nothing has been resolved yet,
ska

25.) Clarity Amplified Phone
Reviewed by: Giants Fan Palm Coast, FL
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The phone is well constructed, has lots of features but unfortunately we could not get rid of the static on the line. I called Clarity to find out if we were doing something wrong and they thought it might be the phone itself but the tech support person said that maybe we had too many electronics in the room. I don't think we do but then he said with the amplification, you can hear more static than you might be able to hear on other phones. I've had plenty of cordless phones installed in my house and none had this static problem so I ended up having to return it. My 85 year old mother who would be one of the main people using the phone didn't like the display. I think if you had an area where static isn't a problem it would be a great phone. I wouldn't NOT recommend it, but beware, static could be a problem. Because of Amazon's return policy, I was able to return the phone with no hassles.

26.) If only it worked consistently!
Reviewed by: JBS Rocky Mtns
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We purchased a C4230 base unit plus three C4230HS handset units for my parents in their 80's. They were having trouble seeing their phones, hearing, and we were having trouble hearing them. This is a fantastic system -- when it works. Unfortunately, after 6+ months of troublesome resets (taking out batteries and constantly rebooting) we're pretty much ready to throw it all in the trash (over $500 wasted!). Technical support has never been able to solve the problems that keep arising, but the handsets keep losing signal from their bases. Whenever this happens, the batteries must be removed... including from the base unit handset AND answering machine. It's a royal pain -- especially for someone in their 80's who just want simplicity. I feel so bad having ever put this whole system in my parents home now. Would not recommend buying until you read consistent reviews that these glitches have been resolved.

UPDATE Feb 2010: Clarity replaced the base unit and handset. It works even worse than the first one! The handset is routinely losing "registration" with the base... forcing you to remove and replace the batteries, and then reregister the handset. So after more than a year of struggling to try to make this work reliably, we're tossing over $350 worth of phones. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!

27.) not as advertised
Reviewed by: aretephora
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I got this phone for my Grandfather who has pretty severe hearing loss. The amplifier is a joke. His phone from 1972 was louder than this! He could barely hear someone talking, even when they were talking loudly. I have NO hearing loss and thought the sound level was about sufficient when it was on the loudest setting and the booster was on. Additionally, the clarity was quite poor. My Grandfather complained that the voices were a bit fuzzy. Again, not as good as his phone from the 70s. I suggest that you don't waste your time, unless the hearing loss is pretty mild.

28.) Way to complicated for elderly
Reviewed by: Jim
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Product has potential but programming was difficult, and the number of buttons to push for simple operations like using answering machine was way to many for an eighty year old. (Who do you think buys most of hearing impared products anyway.) This is a case of style overshadowing ease of use. I returned the product. Thanks to Amamzon for their honorable return policy.

Features of Clarity 5.8 GHz Professional Amplified Cordless Phone with DCP and Digital Answering Machine (C4230)

CLARITY CORDLESS 5.8GHZ

1.) 5.8 Ghz Technology, Digital Answering Machine, Uses Dcp(Tm) Technology &Amp; 50 Db Of Intelligent Amplification To Make Conversations Louder;

Package Height x Length x Width: 9.6 in. x 9.6 in. x 8.1 in.
Package Weight: 2.75 lbs.

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