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With its coverage up to 250,000 square feet, the DuraFon is ideally suited for warehouses, manufacturing plants, and large retail environments. Perfect for IT, maintenance, and security staffs, the DuraFon provides up to 12 floors of in-building penetration for both telephone and intercom calls. It also allows staff members to contact each other through PBX extensions or via private two-way intercom, one-way voice announcements, or even text messaging. Outdoor environments like self-storage facilities, school campuses, auto dealerships, and trucking yards need durability and broad coverage. The DuraFon covers up to 3,000 acres of open area outdoors, and is rugged and water-resistant.

Features

• Six times as powerful as the average cordless phone (708mW peak RF output).
• More power and more range than any other phone that's legal to use in the US and Canada.
• Range depends upon your local environment: typically 12 floors in building, 250,000 sq. ft. in a warehouse, and 3,000 acres on a farm, ranch, car lot or campus (more than 130 million square feet).
• You can connect one or even two external antennas for additional range and coverage area.
• Straight-line "open field" range has been tested at over five miles. Typical range is a mile or two.
• In addition to being a cordless telephone, the EnGenius DuraFon is also a full-duplex 2-way radio (walkie-talkie) which operates independently of the base unit.
• With the DuraFon 1X, you can have one phone line and up to nine handsets.
• One handset is packaged with each base.
• Handsets are shock-absorbent and water-resistant.
• Each handset comes with a damage-resistant low profile antenna, plus a longer antenna for maximum range.
• Handset sits in charging cradle that needs AC power, but no phone connection. You can put it anywhere you have power.
• Separate base connects to any ordinary analog phone lines, VoIP, or an analog port in a phone system. The base can be used horizontally or mounted on a wall.
• Full duplex 2-way radio ("walkie talkie") without using the base.
• Half duplex voice paging to one phone, several phones, all phones.
• Text messaging from phone to phone.
• Line status indicator LEDs on base.
• Digital Spread Spectrum radio transmission with Frequency Hopping resists noise and provides extremely high resistance to eavesdropping. Frequency changes 100 times per second.
• Multi-line capability with Durafon 1X (up to four lines when four bases are used, one line per base).
• Programmable PBX function soft key.
• Fast battery charging: just 90 minutes.
• You can keep an optional spare battery charging at all times.
• Hot swap: you can change batteries while a call is on hold, without losing the call.
• Up to 6 hours talk time.
• Up to 50 hours standby time.
• Any-key answering, redial, mute, hold and volume control.
• Store up to 30 names/numbers for quick speed dialing.
• Capable of answering any line if there is more than one base unit.
• Caller ID with Call Waiting.
• Built-In 2.5mm headset jack.
• 3.5mm input jack for music- or message-on-hold.
• Ring or vibration alert.
• Each handset comes with low profile antenna, plus larger antenna for longer range when needed.
• Optional external antenna for indoor use in warehouses and factories, or outdoor use on farms, ranches, campuses, car lots, etc.
• Handset weighs just 6.2 ounces, and measures 6.3 x 2.3 x 1.2 inches with short antenna.
• NO built-in voicemail or answerer, but you can use an answerer with it.
• Includes: DuraFon 1X Base Unit
• DuraFon 1X Handset, 1 Li-Ion Battery Pack, Fast Charging Cradle, Optimal Coverage Antenna, Low Profile Antenna, Belt Clip.