Casio Phonemate TC945 2-Line Cordless Phone and Answering Machine

by Casio

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.2 x 10.2 inches ; 3.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00000K0DA
• Item model number: TC945
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The TC945 is ideal for small offices or homes with two lines. Both lines can be answered simultaneously, and the recording system features voice prompts and time/day/line stamp, storing 28 minutes of messages between the two lines. Other cool features of the answering system include Advanced Message Management, which provides selective save and erase, instant access, and variable speed message playback. The phone claims to have "remote messaging," but strangely, that doesn't mean you can check messages from any phone, only that you can check messages from the cordless handset.

If you use your phone line to connect to the Internet, you'll appreciate this phone's Modem Monitor Connection Protection. When the phone line is being used by a modem or fax machine, the TC945 can tell the difference between data and voice conversations and won't let a voice caller interrupt a data connection. The system is wall mountable and is backed by a one-year warranty.

Product Description

2-line conference, message files storage, voice time/day line stamp, remote operation w/voice menu, all & new message playback, separate message playback by line, wall mountable,display and dial, simultaneous answering of both lines,voice assisted operations

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Returning Phone, March 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Casio Phonemate TC945 2-Line Cordless Phone and Answering Machine (Office Product)

Callers complained of clarity. LED is very difficult to see.Handset volume is not convenient and must be reset with each call. END

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A great buy: If you only want the date to work for 10 months, June 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Casio Phonemate TC945 2-Line Cordless Phone and Answering Machine (Office Product)

My family and I purchased this phone at a retail outlet. It seemed perfect, at the time the only phone with these features, however we have had some disappointments.

1. If you attempt to use the base speakerphone to answer a call while someone is on the headset on another line, the headset hangs up and the base takes over.

2. The ring on the headset is not at all loud, and is very easily mistakenly switched off.

3. The instruction manual is shady. It is written in a really annoying shade of blue that makes it almost unreadable, and even the content is scanty. There is little fine print nor easy to follow conditions for proving the phone was purchased within the one year warrenty in order to obtain a replacement.

4. After about 10 months the date began to malfunction. We did not abuse this phone in any way. The date remains stuck at tuesday 8:17 pm. It is very annoying, as you thus do not know when people have called. Reseting the clock has been futile.

Maybe we just got a lemon, but buyer beware, keep your reciept. I would give it four stars if it worked all of the time, but the malfunction and thus warrenty question have caused me to dock it to two stars.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Glad to see it's not just me - this phone is a loser, September 18, 2002

By 

C. Cutler (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Casio Phonemate TC945 2-Line Cordless Phone and Answering Machine (Office Product)

I was shopping for a new phone today to replace this ..., and stumbled across these reviews. Glad to see it's not just me who is having problems with this phone. It looked like a great deal when I bought it, but mine suffers from all the same problems outlined by numerous reviewers already. It "loses" the handset, even when you pick it up right from the base - frequently, you have to hang it up again to let it reset before you can answer the phone. When the power goes out, even for a second, you have to pull the power cord out and remove the backup battery to get it working again, erasing all your messages and settings - so much for having a backup battery! Also, the sounds quality is poor compared to my cordless Lucent and Panasonic phones.

Do yourself a favor and take a pass on this phone.