BT Freestyle 250 TWIN

I have a good set of home phones already, but my new BT package gives me 200 free texts a a month, so I needed to get a phone that was text enabled. I didn't want to spend a large amount of cash, as I wasn't sure I would use the service that much, so...

I bought one of these, and the build of it, and the functions are very nice. Unfortunately, as a phone, it's less good. It has a 'noise-gate', which is supposed to reduce the amount of background noise you hear from the person you're calling, buy...