Customer Rating:  
Summary: Something is REALLY wrong with this phone
Comment: I bought this phone without reading the Amazon.com reviews. Big mistake. If I had read the reviews from people in the boat that I'm now in, I would never have bought this phone. So that someone may benefit from my mistake, please do not buy this phone. Ever.
Sure, it looks pretty. The major problem, which is a deal-killer, is that the sound quality is horrific. It hisses, crackles, and pops so loudly you cannot hear the person on the other end of the line. And it's clearly this phone, because the noise starts the minute you start dialing. And it's not a distance issue, because it happens whether you are right next to the base, 10 feet away, 20 feet, it doesn't matter.
Hey Uniden guys, you in the R&D department, get right on this one -- why not make a phone that renders the voice connection audible and intelligible? That would really be great. It certainly isn't this phone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a peice of JUNK!
Comment: I purchased this phone system and it worked well for only about a week. It drops calls almost every time I tried to use it. The handset says "Out of Range" even though I'm right next to the main base station. I called Uniden and told them about the problem, they did not seem surprised at all. They told me I had to send it back to them at my cost with the original purchase receipt in order for them to fix or replace it. I usually try save all my receipts, especially electronics but I couldn't find the one for the telephone. I called back and they told me they would not help me, I will never buy another Uniden product again. What a waste of $100.00 dollars. I gave 1 star only because Amazon won't let me give it 0 stars or lower in my opinion.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Finally a simple, well-performing and good-looking phone!
Comment: We've been using these phones for about a month after struggling with a multi-handset Seimens system for the past few years. One of the best things about these phones is the nicely designed bases and phones, with only a few simple buttons and nice, clean finishes. The handset menu structure and number directory are straight-forward. One of the greatest things is the built in answering machine, which works really well and is equally easy to check messages from using either the base or the handsets. When you have a message waiting, you get both a red LED and an occasional beep, so you can't miss a message. Listening, skipping, rewinding and deleting are all one-button operations. Sound quality and range is excellent. We have experienced no dropped calls, out-of-range errors or interference. The only thing I don't like is the choice of ring tones, which are not very pleasant.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good overall, but lame phonebook/CID integration
Comment: Overall I like this phone a lot. The call quality and features in general are fine, and the styling is much better than that with the generic/ugly Panasonic, etc. choices.
The only disappointment is that incoming calls do not match entries in the phone book (so, it doesn't show the name you've entered, but only what the phone co sends in CID). Uniden confirms this with:
"The caller id will only display the information how it is sent from the phone company. It will not display how it is stored in the phone book."
This is pretty lame since (a) none of the CID entries I've seen so far include any name whatsoever, and (b) the five-year-old Sony I replaced did this properly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Drops calls. Gets progressively worse.
Comment: It's a Uniden Phone, so we expected great things. They look nice, they're easy to use, and they're loaded with features. My wife loved the color-coded screen. After about 6 weeks we began to see problems. It would say "out of range" when we were in the same room as the base. Then it started loosing signal during a call. We could hear them, they couldn't hear us. Then it stopped picking up calls. We tested the problems using a vTech phone we have in the basement. It was definitely a problem with the Uniden phones. I didn't believe the other reviews at first - thinking it was a conflict with a wireless network or something, but it's true. These phones have problems. Big problems. For the cost - they should be unbreakable. Save the money. Go with the utilitarian looking Panasonic phones.
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