Terminology
| The main part of the phone that | |
Base | connects to your phone line and lets | |
| you make and receive calls. | |
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| A cradle that charges the handset | |
Charger | battery. It connects to power but | |
| does not connect to a phone line. | |
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| Caller ID is available from your | |
CID | telephone provider. With this | |
service, you can see the name and | ||
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| number of incoming callers. | |
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| The Caller ID that Talks. The base | |
CID | will announce the name of incoming | |
Announce | callers if you subscribe to Caller ID | |
| service. | |
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| Caller ID on Call Waiting is available | |
| from your telephone provider. With | |
CIDCW | this service, you can see incoming | |
| caller information while on another | |
| call. | |
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Corded | A handset connected to the Base. It | |
Handset | can make and receive calls during a | |
on the Base | power failure. | |
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Emergency | One touch speed dial key for your | |
most important or most frequently | ||
Dial | called number. | |
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| A cordless handset that can be | |
Handset | placed anywhere in your home or | |
| office where AC power is available. | |
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| The handset is not in use. No line | |
| has been activated. The corded | |
Standby | base handset is on the base and | |
| [talk] on the base has not been | |
| pressed. No dial tone is present. | |
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Station | The Cordless handset or base | |
phone. | ||
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| When a dial tone has been enabled | |
Talk | allowing the user to dial and carry on | |
| a conversation with an outside party. | |
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