UNIDEN DECT 6.0 CORDLES ANS SYST 3 HANDST *NIC* - Answering System/Combo - 3 handsets ( DECT3080-3 )

List Price: $117.94 Discount Price: $98.99

Features:

• Ultra Thin Form Factor. Large Color Display. Clearest Voice Reception. WiFi Friendly. Brilliant Sound. Blue Backlit Keypad.
• Personalized Displays for Each Handset. Maximum Voice Security. Longer Battery Life. Expandable to 6 Handsets.
• Caller ID/Call Waiting. 30 Caller ID Handset Memory Locations. Handset Speakerphone. Advanced Phonebook Features_70 Names.
• Intercom or Call Transfer Between Handsets. More than 10 Hours Talk Time. Personalized Ringers. Conference Call.
• Last 5 Number Redial. Copy Phonebook from Handsets. Bilingual Menus (Eng/Sp). NiMH Battery Included.

Customer Reviews:

Worst phone ever [Posted on 2008-08-01]
After a lot of research we bought this phone for our new house. Unfortunately, it does not work. The phone cuts out when we are standing next to the base station and it even cut out when my wife was talking to customer service. The box was destroyed when removing the phone so we have no way to send it back to Amazon. Next time we will buy a phone from a local retailer so at least it can be returned. Do not buy this phone!

Great Phones! [Posted on 2008-08-03]
I ordered my combo set from Sam's Club online and got them for much cheaper than the lowest price on Amazon.com. I charged them fully and began using them. I had researched and checked reviews online regarding the phone's performance and was well aware of many complaints about "out of range" and "dropped calls". I liked the phones so much that I decided to give them a try, hoping to have the same experience as some of the 5-star reviews that I have seen about them. Well, I had the same "out of range" and "dropped calls" problem. I phoned customer service and the rep. told me to de-register the phones and then re-register them again. I did just that but still experienced the same problem. The next day I phoned customer service again, telling a different rep. about my problem and about the suggested solution from a different rep. She immediately connected me to a supervisor who advised me to keep the phones until they ship me a new combo set along with a return ship label for the ones that I had. Apparently there was a glitch in the phones that I had that Uniden has since rectified. When I got the new set I used them for a week before submitting this review. I have had abosolutely no problems with the new phones. I LOVE them. They are ergonomically friendly, beautiful, and have very neat features. It did not take long to get through to customer service on either occasion and my problem was timely resolved. Thanks, Uniden!!!

Disappointing Caller ID feature [Posted on 2008-08-11]
I have had this phone system for only 3 days. It's absolutely fabulous in all aspects except one: The caller ID does NOT display numbers as you have programmed them into your phone book. This becomes an issue for me when dealing with cell phone numbers. The caller ID registers "Cellular Call" instead of "Bob's Cell" as I have it in my phone book.

According to a Uniden support rep, none of their phones have that capability. My old Sony phone, which is 10 years old, does that! This is so important to me that I am going to return this phone system.

I did not have any out of range, wi-fi or clarity issues. The phones are feature-packed, and I love the fact that you can name each phone. The design is pretty slick, too.

I moved the wireless router and now I don't have any dropped calls [Posted on 2008-09-24]
I just deleted the first review I did on this phone. We had 'out of range' errors, lost signals and dropped calls daily! That was getting old. After talking with customer service I decided to move my wireless router about 6' away from the phone's main base. That solved my problem; we haven't lost a phone call since!

We like the customizable features for each handset, and have given each one their own name, color and ringer tone. The colors can be softened or made bright for the viewing that you like best. There are at least 3 wallpapers to choose from, too.

Each handset comes with its own belt clip. I attach the clip to my shirt, turn on the speakerphone and my hands are free to crochet, type or leave my pets in/out, well, you get the idea.

I wish I could turn the volume up a little, but I don't have any problems hearing the conversations. Other than that, we love these phones now that we don't lose any of our phone calls.

*The handsets need to be charged 15-20 hours before you can use them.

Great phone system [Posted on 2008-09-25]
I have used mostly Panasonic telephone systems in the past. This is my first Uniden product. I have used this telephone system for over 2 months. I have not had ANY drop-outs or "Out-Of-Range" errors that others have reported. I would assume that there may have been an early production line issue. I would be curious to see how others would have rated the phone if that issue were taken out of the equation. I have categorized my review features into Good, Bad and Ugly.

The GOOD:
-Terrific sound quality
-Stylish design
-Lightweight handsets
-Speakerphone feature on each handset
-Ability to add 3 extra handsets (6 total) simply by dropping them in the base for 5-10 seconds.
-Ability to customize the name of each handset for intercom ease-of-use
-Ability to page all handsets via intercom at once or one at a time
-Multiple ringers
-Organized menu interface and button icons
-Message indicator light on each handset
-Ability to check your messages from any handset
-Ability to send your address book entries to each of your handsets without re-entering them.


The BAD:
-The handset will not turn on the back light of the display until it is taken off the charger. This makes it difficult to see who is calling until the handset is lifted off the charger and activates the back light
-Only a 2 digit code for answering machine message retrieval...not that secure
-Price
-The handset volume and speaker phone volume are very audible; however, I do tend to use the highest setting on both. It would be nice if there were a louder setting but I doubt anyone would complain the volume is not high enough.
-No talking Calling ID (though I have usually turned that feature off on my Panasonic phones because it gets annoying).
-No use of speaker phone with intercom. I'm not sure if there is a phone system that does this, but it would be a great feature (like a quick & easy baby monitor)


The UGLY:
-I have two least favorite attributes of this phone system:

-There is the "extra" bottom row of buttons on the handset that have the same look and feel as the number buttons (This is the reason for the 4 star rating). Every other phone I have owned has the * key, 0 button and # key on the bottom. Or, if there are other buttons beneath this row, they look or feel very different or are spaced further down on the phone. This phone has another row of buttons directly beneath * key, 0 button and # key. This extra row of buttons is for redial, mute and speaker phone. Uniden should have made this row a different size or spaced it further down on the handset. When a telephone number has contains a zero (which is usually the button found on bottom center of a handset), it is too easy to hit the MUTE button instead since this is the bottom center button on this handset. This takes some acclimation.

-The answering machine recorder does not cut off when you pick up a phone that is not part of the Uniden system. For example, if someone is calling and you pick up another phone after several rings (a Panasonic phone on the same line for example) after the answering machine has already picked up, it will not cut off the answering machine recorder. You then need to manually delete a "message" of you talking to the person on the answering machine.

SUMMARY:
-I have not had ANY drop out issues reported by others
-If you can live with the "extra" row of buttons at the bottom of the handset and frequent need to delete "messages" of you talking to someone else on the answering machine, this is really a great looking and great performing telephone system. Overall, I would recommend it without hesitation.

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