With the massive reduction of landlines I have only found three two handset phones without answering machines that are still affordable. The first is ViaTech, and they last less than a year in our business and we have trouble hearing on them. AT&T, they are good but getting expensive and hard to find. My husband purchased a set of these Panasonic phones for our business and was very pleased with them. When I went to the big box store he bought them from, they had stopped carrying them. Found them on Prime and had them quickly. This set is for another location and is working fine. They do have the normal rechargeable batteries, and not the pack, so if they were to go bad it would be easy to get replacements. If you are looking for a basic two phone set without answering machine for 10-50 calls a day, this is it.
Works great. Excellent voice and sound quality even when used with VOIP. Bought 2 sets and paired all units to one base (second base functions only as a charger) as this was much more cost effective than buying 2 expansion phones Panasonic KX-TGC352B Expandable Cordless Phone with Amber Backlit Display - 2 Handsets, Black. Upgraded the batteries with "Panasonic BK-4MCCA8BA eneloop 8 Pack (AAA) 2100 Cycle NiMH Cell" for extremely long talk and standby time. Panasonic BK-4MCCA8BA eneloop 8 Pack (AAA) 2100 Cycle NiMH Cell
excellent product and price. backlit is very good. plugged right in, both worked no problem, easy to program. would buy again.
Great basic phone. Not a single complaint.
For folks who already have voicemail another way (I do free through google voice and magic jack) this is perfect. Avoiding having a base with voicemail built in allows this unit to be smaller which is awesome. I'm pretty sure you can't do better.
A good basic cordless phone. Using it with an Obi200 and Google Voice for a $0/month home telephone service. Clear audio and the ringer is loud enough. Last cordless phone was a 1994-era 900MHz Uniden that finally gave up the ghost. I needed a low cost one or two handset cordless supporting DECT. The use of AAA batteries was an important consideration as I can easily replace them when they no longer hold a charge (or if I need to use cells with higher capacity-- hello Eneloops! ). With the old Uniden, it became increasing difficult and more expensive to purchase replacement battery packs, even here on Amazon.
Need a simple cordless phone? Consider this model.
Feature Product
- EASY-TO-READ CORDLESS PHONE DISPLAY - See who's calling at a glance on our wide, 1. 6 inch Amber Backlit LCD screen on the phone's base unit and cordless handset
- CALL BLOCK - Eliminate unwanted calls with Call Block capability. Register up to 30 numbers by entering Caller ID info into the phone's call block memory
- INTELLIGENT ECO MODE - Power-conserving technology manages consumption for optimal phone battery performance
- SILENT MODE CORDLESS HANDSETS - Silent mode allows you to select a period of time during which the cordless handset and/or telephone base unit will not ring for outside calls
- CALLER ID - This cordless phone system is Caller ID compatible. To use Caller ID features, you must subscribe to a Caller ID service. Contact your phone service provider for details.Frequency:1.9 GHz
Description
The Panasonic KX-TGC352B Expandable Cordless Phone System with Amber Backlit Display and Call Block works great in any home or home office. Includes one cordless handset in the phone’s base unit and one additional cordless handset, expandable up to six handsets. If you're tired of getting interruptions from telemarketers or robo callers, this phone system has call block capability. With a Caller ID Service, the blocked number will be registered in the phone system’s database. Additional features include: DECT 6. 0* technology, Speed Dial, Call Waiting and Caller ID capability as well as Call Grouping on telephone's base unit and cordless handsets. This landline cordless phone comes equipped with many great features for the perfect home phone system. Guided feature tutorials are available for this cordless phone system on the manufacturer’s. DISCLAIMER: * DECT 6. 0 is a North American marketing term for DECT devices manufactured for the United States and Canada operating at 1. 9 GHz.
Great basic phone. Used to have a Panasonic cordless unit with a built in answering machine and it does not cooperate with the voice mail that comes with the landline service. This model does not have a built in answering machine so no more voice mail conflict. Panasonic is the best for cordless.
Clear reception and light weight. Piano black finish is a smudge and fingerprint magnet. Orange backlit display is clear and visible at night. Overall, quite good basic phone.
Beast. Works better than any phone I owned during the last three decades. Sure speaker is not a Polycom but you should not be making conference calls with this. Great for talking to Grandma. Yeah included battery life can be short, if you talk for more than three to four hours between charges but easily fixed with higher capacity cells and with two units who cares, how much talking are you really doing, player?
They seem to have a long battery life, even through they have just two NiMH AAA batteries in each. Also, because the batteries are not proprietary, you'll have no problems replacing them when the finally do go bad someday.
The only "gripe" that I might have is because these phone are somewhat slim (especially compared to my old portable phones), so they are not very stable (they can tip over more easily) when you stand them up on their end when using in speaker-phone mode. Although I find that they work fine just laying them onto their backs when doing that.
Oh, and the main base (the one that the telephone line plugs into) CAN NOT be mounted on the wall. However, the extention charger base can be mounted onto a wall. This wasn't a big deal breaker for me, just FYI....
Cell service knocked out by fires. We have magicjack but old cordless phone not working. So, I was without any phone for several days. Very impressed by prompt delivery despite heavy smoke everywhere.
We've owned MANY cordless phones over the past 25+ years. The better ones were always Panasonic. A lot of these phones had more features than these new ones, but it turns out that I rarely used all the fancy features. And, I absolutely don't want the answering machine because Magicjack comes with excellent voice mail system.
Some of the old phones cost upwards of $200, which would be around $400 in today's dollars -- and they had expensive proprietary batteries. Besides, the old ones only had one handset. We usually had two cordless phones in the house. The KX-TGC352 cost is next to nothing in comparison to the old ones.
Since I use a variety of devices that use AA or AAA batteries, I have a good battery charger and a stash of rechargeable batteries. I replaced the provided 300 mAh batteries in one handset with 1000 mAh. I charged both handsets overnight and they still show full after an hour or so use this morning. Just to see how it goes, I won't put them back on the bases until they run low. I suspect I'll get 2 - 3 days with the stock batteries and at least a week with the 1000 mAh. I have no worries at all about batteries running low since, if necessary, I could easily switch handsets and I also have plenty of freshly charged AAA NiMH batteries I could swap. You can switch in the middle of the conversation by picking up the other phone and then turning off the first one.
One problem was easily solved. DTMF tones were not recognized (while pressing number in response to voice prompts). Opened chat with magicjack and the tech knew exactly what to do... changed some setting on their end and it works fine now.
I set up VM detect on the phone (menu #332). Now if VM is waiting, the screen says "New Voice Mail Press VM" with VM button appearing on screen. Pressing VM takes me straight to magicjack VM (set up number with menu#331).
Set ringer tone (menu #161). There are 5 tones and 10 melodies to choose from. You can also choose to be silent (menu #238) or to be silent for a specific duration (menu #237) like maybe you don't want to hear the ring while you sleep from say 11pm to 6am.
Another adjustment: the time displayed on the phone will automatically be set with an incoming call. This could be alright if you're in the Eastern zone in US, but I didn't like it shifting like that. So, manual set (menu #226) keeps it on Pacific time.
I used to like having a headphone jack on the old phones, which I used some for conference calls. This phone doesn't have a headphone jack, but, frankly, if it had one, I would probably never use it. We generally use skype, Zoom, go-to-meeting, or other Internet application for conference calls.
With the first handset, I setup speed dialing keys exactly the same as I have them on my cell phone. I haven't set any speed dialing on the second one, but it's there if I need it. The phone book is shared between the two handsets (if you add/change/delete an entry on one handset, it will show on the other one).
There is a place for "handset name" but I don't know what that would be for. Each handset has a number (1 or 2) next to the charge indicator, so it's easy to tell which is which. The handsets appear identical except for these numbers.
Some features like hold, call waiting, redial, and such are there and work like they have on previous models -- plus some useful newer features. In summary, this system is basic but has every feature I would ever use or want, and not a bunch of stuff I would never use.
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