And the subject line here isn't entirely accurate because I'm going to
talk about the handsets I have paired with the base, the Gigaset SL910
premium handsets though others can be used as you'll see if you look at
the chart on the Gigaset web site.
I discovered that you can pair up to 6 handsets with the base but that's
only the start of it. You can pair 6 handsets individually or pair 6
"Pairs" of handsets so what's the difference?
When two handsets are paired to the base as a "Pair", they're recognised
as such thus the settings you make on one handset in the "Pair" are
mimicked by the other handset.
The pairing goes beyond the base however.
Suppose you and a friend visit a shopping mall and you just happen to
have a pair of Gigaset SL910 handsets with you, give one to your friend
and keep the other.
You can then use the handsets as walky talky's so the both of you can
keep in touch.
When the paired handsets can't find the base then they look for each
other and thus go into "Walky Talky" mode and initiating a walky talky
session is easy enough.
The person who wishes to initiate a walky talky session presses the send
button on the handset where upon the paired handset is alerted by a beep.
The receiver then presses and holds down the send button to talk,
releases the send button when finished talking to hear what the other
party has to say and that's it.
Now I have seen a similar feature on a Uniden cordless phone system
years ago though it was a little different as the handsets acted more
like phones rather than walky talkys as the Gigaset handsets do.
I've tested this feature and the quality of the audio was very good
though I'm not sure about the range, things worked okay in our local
shopping strip.
