The Ativa 5.8G cordless phone has a serious sesign flaw. The battery indicator only works when the phone is on the charging station. After you take it out, you don't see the batter indicator at all. So you don't know how much batter it has left. And the phone dies suddently if it runs out of battery. The guy I talked with from manufacture told me that I should always put the phone back on the charge when not in-use. If that is the case, they should make it clear and I would never buy this junk. Ativa is a new brand sold excludsive from OfficeDepot. If their product carries such obvious design flaw, I would double the design of all of their product. I will stay away from Avita brand at all to avoid buying junk.