Uniden TRU9485-2 5.8 GHz Digital Cordless Answering System with Dual Keypad and Extra Handset
by Uniden
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Customer Review: Bang 4 Your Buck
Summary: 5 Stars
After reading many comments about the Uniden TRU9485, I was skeptical in purchasing this phone. I am now confident in my purchase. For the price and features, you get an incredible bang for your buck.
USER FRIENDLY: This phone is easy to set up. Charge both batteries at least half a day before using them (It makes a tremendous difference in your battery life).
FEATURES: The LCD is very easy to read and follow. Having buttons that light up is a plus. Having an audible alert for new messages is great. No more forgetting to check the answering machine. It comes with Caller ID stamp...the norm for most phones. The greatest feature for this phone has to be phone directory input. Load your favorite phone numbers in the base unit...send it to the cordless hand units...no monotonous repetition inputting numbers. I can't tell you much about the belt clip or the headset use. I don't like doing too many things while I'm on the phone. I'm old fashion..."give people your undivided attention while conversating".
RECEPTION: Voice and reception quality is great. I have a concrete floor between my top and bottom story and it works great. Make sure you do not put your base phone within a 2 or 3 foot radius of your wireless modem. (You gotta be smart, before you complain).
I loved this phone so much; I bought my Mom and Dad the same phone for Christmas. This phone is definitely worth having and the price is very reasonable.
Customer Review: Works like a dream !
Summary: 5 Stars
Update,
I have been using these (with 9 handsets) for over 3 years now. Zero problems and they are fantastic for its price.
I did not experiece the two problems mentioned below by previous reviewers:
1. I have comcast phoneline & this Uniden system works great.
2. It comes with all Cordless batteries. It doesn't come with a 9V battery, how difficult is it find one at walmart/target. This comes with all the accessories needed.
I added 6 handsets. The entire house is co-ordinated so well:
Best features I love are:
1. Monitor any room you want in a flash
2. Privacy option prevents your guests monitoring you
3. Do not disturb button keeps all units quiet.
4. Global settings. Awesome - you set the settings in base, it applies automatically to all other units.
5. you can label each handset.
6. registering the handset to the base was a dream, put the handset in the base for 5 sec & you are done.
7. walkie-talkie feature
8. check messages from any handset.
9. all handsets have a red blinking light if there is a message. so, no need to run to base to check messages.
10. you can record a conversation.
11. you can enter your local area code, so when you dial local #s, no need to dial area code.
I just got it a week ago & it works like a dream. I will provide an update in a month or so.
Customer Review: Very good phone
Summary: 4 Stars
I already had the 4-phone version myself and bought this 2 phone version for my in-laws.
The display is easy to read, the buttons are a reasonable size and the BUTTONS LIGHT UP. That is really important to me, so I can see the silly buttons when the light is low. My inlaw's eyesight is a little poor so that helps them too. The big green 'call' button and the big red 'stop' button are nice too. No quessing which little button I need to us.
The stored numbers are very handy, so I don't have to remember my frequently called phone numbers. And you can enter the numbers into one phone and 'upload' them to the other phones.
The base also has a keypad, so with the base speakerphone, you really get 3 phones instead of just the 2 handsets. The speakerphone quality is fair. Sounds pretty tinny to the person on the other end of the phone.
Be careful if you want to buy THIS phone. Amazon also sells another Uniden phone that looks almost exactly like this phone, but the other phone does not have an answering machine. I made the mistake of ordering that other phone first, because the description says something about having 'voice mail', which I thought was an answering machine. But what that meant was it could be connected to the phone system's voicemail.
When I contacted Amazon to return the mistaken phone, I fully expected to pay the return shipping. But they sent me a pre-paid shipping form for the return. I was impressed with the customer service on this one.
Customer Review: Phone would not work with my phone line
Summary: 2 Stars
Note: this is essentially the same review I wrote for the TRU8885-2, because this phone has the same fatal flaw.
Like the TRU8885-2, I was excited to receive this phone, charge up the batteries, and try it out. My wife and I actually preferred the look of this model to the 8885; the base unit is a bit larger and the buttons are a bit larger and easier to read on both the base and handset. Unfortunately, after plugging this phone into my line (Verizon phone service with DSL, DSL filter on the line), about 80% of the time the phone would not get a dial tone. Eventually I determined that somehow the 9485 was dialing a "1" all by itself (an 800 number without a preceding "1" went through OK, a local number would get error "do not dial a 1 for this number"). Dialing with the handset or base resulted in the same behavior.
This is the same error as with the 8885-2s I returned the week before. @$#^%@$#! So apparently there is a design flaw with multiple new Uniden models. Uniden CS was polite but unhelpful, so this phone (just as the other Unidens) had to be returned.
I gave this unit two stars due to it's design, and my understanding that this phone must be working on *some* phone lines out there. Perhaps your luck with this model will be better than mine.
BTW, replaced this unit with a Panasonic KX-TG5672B, which works just fine on my phone line.
Customer Review: Great phone. Great speakerphone. Talked for five hours on one handset.
Summary: 5 Stars
I work at home, and attend lots of conference calls. I was on a conference call recently for five hours on one handset, and the battery meter only lost one bar (of three). (I used a headset the whole time, the handset was only a few inches from the base unit, and the whole thing is only two weeks old, so all of these may've contributed to the long talk time / low battery use. But regardless, that's pretty good.)
The speaker phone works quite well. I've used it on most of my "meetings" for the past two weeks and had no complaints (of my own or from other meeting participants). You can easily switch from speaker to handset and back again.
I also like how you can assign rings to specific calling numbers. I've set up a convention where "friends and family" get one ring, work people get another ring, and everyone else gets a third. I used to have two phone numbers that rang to the same line, but with different rings -- this is almost as good, and better in some ways.
This phone has other features that I haven't used yet, but sound kind of nifty, like the "room monitor" feature (where a handset can act as a baby room monitor), and the "walkie talkie" mode where the handsets talk to each other directly. This is independent of the base unit -- it doesn't even have to be plugged in.
This is my 2nd Uniden phone, and I've liked both of them.