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Originally Posted by bgadow
Panasonic's logo used to be the word "Panasonic" inside the letter 'N', and some sets say National-Panasonic, others just Panasonic, others just National. Not sure why, maybe it changed through the years. In the later 80s I bought, at a freight salvage, a new National-Panasonic radio/cassette player. I can only assume it was for some market besides the US-maybe a gray market import? Anyhow, they had some pretty nice AM-FM table sets in the 60s, both tube & transistor. Maybe the best Japanese sets of that era I've seen. They don't have that cheap look of so many you see. Still make a good product, in my book. The cordless phone clipped to my pocket is amazing, especially given the abuse its taken.
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Gee, Bryan, I always thought only cell phones were small enough to be carried in or on a pocket; didn't realize
cordless phones were that small these days as well. I have a cell phone that will fit in a pocket, but the handset for my cordless phone is much too big for that. I have a belt clip for it, but haven't used the clip yet because I don't need it; my apartment is small enough I can always go back into my bedroom and get the phone off the base when it rings, or if I'm expecting a call and I am watching TV, reading my paper, etc. I can keep the handset near my easy chair so I can lay hands on it in a hurry when the ringer goes off. Never had any need or use for the belt clip on that phone for just those reasons.
Your cordless must be built like a battleship if it can withstand so much abuse as you mentioned it has seen, and still work. I've seen and owned wired phones that break apart (literally) if dropped or slammed down on the cradle forcibly; a wired phone I brought with me from my former residence when I moved here got so noisy I had to get a new one (it had been noisy the last year or so I had it, but the problem went from bad to worse until I couldn't use it any longer; needless to say, it had to go). Oh well, I guess we should have seen this coming as soon as the Bell System broke up 20 years ago.
Cell phones can be like that too. My first cell was a Motorola V2397; it was built like a tank and could withstand any kind of abuse one could dish out. My present cell phone, OTOH, while still a Motorola, is built so cheaply and flimsily (thin plastic case) that one drop from any height will almost certainly ruin it in no time flat. The phone is cute, small, and works well for me (it gets reception just about anywhere and sounds good), but I do wish Moto would have built it as sturdy as my V2397 is. My present phone is a Moto 120T.
Oh well. I guess that's what we're getting from Japan and elsewhere in the Orient these days. National Panasonic radios must have been built very well, unlike the cheap things coming off assembly lines today. (I had a Panasonic AM/FM radio in the late '70s that never gave me five minutes worth of trouble; I am only sorry I got rid of it sometime in the early '80s, when I bought my first stereo system.)