I'm hoping someone has already been through this, because it's driving me up a wall. I want to buy one of the many brands of cordless phone where you get a base station and multiple handsets, but I want one important feature: intercom.
Now the frustrating part is that what I grew up calling an intercom was a device where you pressed a button and spoke and anyone near the other stations (or a target station) would hear your voice. It seems that, in modern cordless phones, "intercom" is now lingo for the ability to ring any of the other phones, which someone must then answer.
Does anyone know of an actual intercom in the original sense of the word on a modern cordless phone? I've heard people say that this is called "paging," but that now seems to have come to mean "making a handset beep so that you can find it in your seat cushions." In fact, every word that might have meant what I thought it meant now seems to mean, "you can make it beep or ring."
Thanks in advance!