Cingular Go Phone: Uniden TCX930 Accessory Handset and Charger for TRU9360, TRU9360-2,TRU9380, TRU9380-2, TRU9380-3 Review

Overall, this is a fairly good phone system. It has many useful features and the sound quality is good. This system is listed as a top pick of Consumer Reports

There are a few quirks which prevent 5 stars.

(1) You cannot make calls (i.e. use speaker phone) while phone is on the base. I would rather not have to take the phone off the base to conduct a conference call. Many other systems allow you to use speaker without removing the handset from the base.

(2) You cannot use the speaker phone with the intercom option. This seems like a very strange limitation.

(3) When paging another handset in the system, your own handset rings as well as the handset being paged (I cannot figure out the engineering logic to this one). The ringer is so loud, you cannot hold it up to your ear during paging. You have to wait for the paged handset to answer before putting your handset to your ear. I have found no way to disable this or to turn down the paging ring. You can adjust an incoming ring from an outside caller but not the paging ring.

(4) You cannot rename handsets. It would be more user friendly to be able to rename handsets as "Family Room", "Kitchen", "Bedroom" etc rather than the current "Handset #1", "Handset #2" etc.

I really liked the Philips CD4450B which is not limited by these issues. However, since it is limited to 5 handsets, I chose this system instead.

I would have thought that a company like Uniden, who has made telephones for a long time, would be able to get the details right by now.

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Product Description:
Accessory Handset and Charger for the T93 Series Digital FHSS technology, 70 name phonebook, 30 number Caller ID memory, Handset speakerphone, Intercom and transfer calls between handsets, Transfer phonebook memory between handsets, Backlit keypad and display, Bilingual menus, 7 ring tones (4 melodies), Personal ring feature, Last 5 number redial, Mute/Hold features, One touch access to VoiceMail or Answering system messages*, Headset compatible