That being said I do no like the display of the phone number.

Nice to have - programmable phone number bank5.

i.e. phone number 555-555-1212 is displayed as 5555-5-1212.

Easy to see with larger numbers and and easy to use when you are dialing a phone number in the kitchen.

The display lights up, and you get is a dial tone, but when you punch in a phone number

I'm not sure I understood the distinction other than I needed to put in the home area code (the one that goes to this particular phone number) in order to use some of the number programming, etc.

You can see the name & phone number of callers.