ARCHIVED FORUM -- March 2012 to February 2022READ ONLY FORUM
This is the second Archived Forum which was active between 1st March 2012 and 23rd February 2022
B & O no longer make telephones which is a pity. They stopped making them in 2013 / 2014. I had 2 French Beocom 6000's and wanted another 4 mobiles with chargers and obviously went to eBay and bought the first from a German seller. The Greman one was a MkII and the ones I had already are Mk !'s recognised by the two black dots on the top of the case,
I was unable to register the new handset from Germany on my French base station (PSTN) that connects to the French phone line. After much effort I went to my B&O dealer and he has erased the German software and reloaded French software so that the thing can work on a French specification base station. I know that you can change the languages between English, French, German, using the menu on the MkII (not possible on the MK1) however that is a separate activity compared to changing the main operating software in the handset.
My dealer warned me that sometimes when reloading the operating software they cause the phone to "hang" and it is no longer useable ...in my case I was lucky!
In my view as people move their fixed line phone towards a VOIP or internet phone line they will discover that the internet base station will only support a single phone line which means that you need to buy a multi station cordless phone system. Sure you could buy a Gigaset (Siemens) or other make of phone that are cheap in comparison to the B&O but they have less autonomy and are not as nicely designed to my eyes at least. Consequently I foresee a rush to buy Beocom 6000 units.
Apparently new spare covers at about 30 euros are available from the factory as are batteries.