Cordless phones: Best Buys 

Top of the range cordless phones can feel more like mobiles - sending texts, copying contacts from Sim cards and even doubling as baby monitors. But what functions do you really need on a home phone, and which can you do without?

Whether you want all the latest gadgetry or a no-frills cordless phone just for making and receiving calls, our reviews are here to help. We test everything from supermarket models to the biggest names in cordless phone technology - and have discovered that you don't always get better quality when you pay more.

• Our ‘Tombola Test’ sends each cordless phone through 25 rotations in a metal barrel to see whether it can withstand knocks and scratches
• We don’t just test phone range in the open air – we test coverage through steel and sandstone to show what the reception will be like in your home as well as your garden
• We use software to analyse technical Speech Quality Assessments from a head and torso simulator. But for real-life results, we combine these assessments with the views of our expert panel

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What makes a Best Buy cordless phone?

Cordless phone reviews you can trust

We send models from the biggest names in cordless phones for testing in our labs – including BT, Binatone, Panasonic, Philips and Siemens. We test each model to discover the things you’d want to know before you get a phone home – and potential niggles that could leave you kicking yourself after you’ve made a purchase.

Which? is independent - we work for you, the consumer, so you can be sure we only recommend products that perform well in our lab tests. We don't take advertising and we buy all the products we test. This means that as well as recommending great cordless phones, we’re not scared to tell you which to avoid

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