godotz wrote:

while waiting for the new beocom 5 , i found this :

link

oh no .

now i understand how tiger woods felt .

i think i will take both .

Have got the earlier (square shaped base with keyboard) version of this phone (as seen in the last series of the Apprentice on the reception desk.)

Have got it wall mounted. Great phone, but it's very easy for someone to think that they've hung up by putting the receiver back, but in fact to leave the phone off the hook (thus stopping all incoming calls on all phones.) Wonder if they've managed to design that problem out with this latest version?

Graham

What a beauty... I like this one much more how the new Beocom 5......

A typical Jacob Jensen. I wish B&O goes back to this designhouse.

I think it looks really boring, but we all have different taste.

Have you seen it in the flesh?? One of the older wireless JJ phones seems to be made of the cheapest plastic. It was such a disappointment, the way it felt, and the plastic looked really cheap compared to the pictures. I don't know if this model though.

I agree. I like the super sleek Jensen designs and had desperately wanted a weather station many years back when it first came out and was difficult to find in the US. Then I held one in my hand and it was the most disappointing thing ever. Without B&O's manufacturing behind him his projects look better in photographs. 

IMHO, that seems outdated for me...

Guy

I agree with you Trip.  We have the alarm clocks that could be incorporated with the weather station lineup,  I ordered two and was very disappointed in the quality when received. Very cheap materials...... ALL plastic and fell apart quickly.  I would not even consider buying one of these phones.  

It's a real shame. It seems that lots of people eagerly anticipated his new designs and were disappointed with the quality of the actual product. I can't help but to think that a similar weather station (maybe with a volume module!) would have made sense as a B&O piece. Then it would have had the fit and finish you'd expect.

TripEnglish wrote:

I can't help but to think that a similar weather station (maybe with a volume module!) would have made sense as a B&O piece. Then it would have had the fit and finish you'd expect.

Or maybe with two-way remote control with a status display module to fit the rest! Oh, but... nevermind 😕

I have a lot of the Jensen products , including watches, weather station, kitchen scale, smoke detector, and wall clock.

I agree the build quality is disappointing, especially for the weather station & the phones, made of 100% cheap plastics that wear after a year.

However, the smoke detector and the metal accessories (scale, watch) have a much better feel. The watches are made by Max Rene in Switzerland.

Nevertheless, apart from the "plastic issue", the Jensen phones are far more convenient for professional use: I brought my BeoCom 4 at the office, had to take it back home after 3 weeks: no one could use it, except me, people kept dropping it when trying to put it back on its base, no one knew where to press to answer a call and..there was no speaker for conference calls!

I brought the T80 at work one month after it was released, and since then it's been on my desk, everyone is happy with it, all the staff can use it, it has the same menu layout as all mobile phones, modern ring tones (the B&O ones made people laugh, to say the least, some of them wondering how such an expensive thing could ring like a phone taken from Miami Vice or Charlie's angels..), you can see the keypad in the dark (because at least on the Jensen phone, the keys are backlit), the batteries can easily be replaced, you can choose different ringtones for different people in the phonebook etc...

The end of the story is: I brought back the BeoCom 4 at home, where it serves best, bought an Earset 1 this year, and couldn't live without them..😎