Instruct: Classify a review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Good technology , bad execution

I purchased this phone based on it's good review at Consumer Reports, what a mistake! The sound quality was fine but the human factors/user interface was terrible, especially for a $270 phone (base + one phone). <ul> <li> Each phone has a separate phone book which can not be sync'd to the other phones. <li> The answering machine is not integrated with rest of the phone. One example is the volume controls both the answer machine and the base speaker phone, the two are not calibrated, if you switch between using the base speaker phone and the answering machine you need to adjust the volume each time. <li> Handset interface is not very good, the color screen servers no purpose. I really noticed how bad it was once I purchased Panasonic TG5433M. </ul> Do yourself a favor and get a Panasonic TG5433M instead, for the price of the base unit you get three phones which much better features.