Reduced Energy Consumption; Eco Dect - Gigaset A490 User Manual

The base station at a glance
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ECO DECT

You are helping to protect the environment with your Gigaset A490/A495.

Reduced energy consumption

Your telephone has an energy-saving adapter plug and uses less energy.
Reduced transmission power
The transmission power of your telephone is reduced automatically:
The handset's transmission power is reduced depending on the distance to the base sta-
tion. The base station's transmission power is reduced to almost zero when only one
handset is registered and the handset is in the base station.
You can reduce the transmission power of the handset and base station even more by
using Eco Mode (see Menu tree page 25):
70% transmission power reduction in standby mode (top left display icon
a call. The range of the base station is reduced. Press and hold the talk key
that the base station can be reached. You will hear the ringing tone if the base station can
be reached.
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1 Registration/paging button:
Search for handsets
(press briefly, "Paging"
Register handsets
(press and hold
2 On/Off button: activate and deactivate an-
swering machine.
Lights up: answering machine is activated.
Flashes: answering machine is operating.
3 Volume keys: (x = quieter; t = louder)
During message playback: adjust the speak-
ing volume.
While phone is ringing: adjust ringer volume.
4 Play/Stop key:
Play back messages from the answering ma-
chine, or cancel playback.
Flashes: new messages available.
Flickering: memory is full.
During message playback:
5 Delete current message.
6 Skip to the start of the current message (press
once) or go to the previous message (press
twice).
7 Skip to next message.
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