Well...
Purchased to replace a Gigaset C620 whose screen was no longer working.
Easy to install, simple to copy contacts after pairing with the C620.
Poor display compared with its predecessor, even though the technology is 10 years old.
Large characters, Super Mario Year 1-style pixelation, in black and white. So to be reduced, choice: low or high ... binary.
Problem: the 52 C620 contact records are transformed into 79 AS690 records. Each number found creates its own record.
100 possible contacts, I'm getting close to the end. Actually supports 50 names with two numbers.
Displays 15 letters per line. Very accurate with long names
Display of names in alphabetical order (surname) only. Every family is in a queue, with first names planed to Marie A, Marie L, Jean? or less etc. The work-office-mobile distinction is made by adding a 1 or a 2, making it impossible to distinguish between private and work unless you create another file and give a nickname... risky.
No automatic screen saver. Installed in a corridor, it's like a small torch, even with the contrast reduced.
This morning, I reinstalled the two working C620s, and added the AS690 in the least busy place.
Disappointed to find them retrograde.
The lugs on one power base were cast at an angle, impossible to insert a handset. Send it back? the transport costs are half its value. Fortunately, the bases have been standard for 10 years. The old one is being reused.
Gigaset-Siemens is now focusing on the mid-low end of the market. Chinese toy plastic.
Made in Deutschland...über alles...
To be avoided for your parents and maybe for you?
