Customer Reviews

Uniden EXAI7980 900 MHz Analog Cordless Phone with Answering System and Caller ID

5 star:		(22)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

The sound quality of this phone is excellent IF you take the time to charge the battery a full 24 hrs. prior to its first use. I did so and have had no problems whatsoever. Friends of mine have bought 2.4 GHZ phones and I cannot honestly tell a difference in sound quality between the two. Handset is very durable and base set has every function people actually use and is so easy to use my grandmother could figure it out (literally!) If there is a drawback, I'd say it is the small caller ID window on the handset..but I soon got used to it. I've bought 4 other cordless phones with similar features and paid a lot more than I did for this one..it is clearly a keeper!

I've had this phone for a year in my dorm room, and it has been wonderful. It's been dropped several times (and it still works fine), so it's durable. The reception is perfect unless you have a castle wall between the phone and receiver - I've used it two floors below me before without any interference. The answering machine is digital and easy to use. The clarity of the answering machine is completely adaquate and I wouldn't expect more for the price. However, if this could be improved, it would be a big bonus. It flashes the number of messages on it when you have a new message. The phone also has a nice feature in which you hit a button and record a message - great for leaving messages (no more stickies) for my roommate. I give it 5 stars for its value.

Being a review junkie, I searched hi and lo for the best cordless phone/answering machine I could find. After picking up a Consumer Reports mag. that rated it the best, I decided to buy it....I have never been happier!!! The one thing that is peculiar is the answering machine...When leaving an out going message dont speak into it from the top as it will cause the message to sound muffled...Pick the unit up and speak into it with the unit horizontal...This will solve that little prob...The sound is crystal clear and the features are superb....All I can say is this Uniden is an excellent product at an excellent price...What more could a consumer ask for!!!!

I have owned this model for close to a year now. I am very picky when it comes to sound quality and did my research before I got this phone and absolutely LOVE IT!! Digital transmission in my opinion sometimes makes the call sound choppy, so I went with 900 Mhz Analog which is this model, excellent sound and no interference from other peoples cordless phones. The battery time is excellent, about a week I think. The display is nice because you can auto-redial any of the last 30 callers. But what has saved me the most about this phone is the durability, I have dropped this thing more times than I can count and even spilled a drink on it or right next to it, and it keeps working just like new!!

I just recently purchased a Uniden EXAI7980 telephone. And at about US$70, it's got a lot of very nice features. It is a charcoal-gray 900 Mhz cordless phone with integrated answering machine, speakerphone and caller ID. The sound quality is excellent. It is clear and loud with no interference at any range. I especially like the adjustable volume control that wouldn't default back when you hang up (unlike my last phone). The only major complaint that I have about this phone is that there is no battery backup for recorded messages. And that, I feel, is quite unacceptable, considering all of today's telephones with integrated answering machine have some sort of battery backup. So, if there is ever a power outage, you will definitely lose all of your previously recorded messages. If either you work from a home-office or this will be your only answering machine, then I strongly wouldn't recommend this. Otherwise, if you can overlook this design flaw, then this is a great all-in-one telephone for anyone who doesn't rely heavily on its answering machine capabilities.

The Uniden Cordless phone had all the features I was looking for: caller ID, answering machine, and speakerphone. Also, it is one of the few cordless phones with these attributes that is WHITE! Well, the phone completely quit working within a week, and the phone could not be dialed from the handset sitting on the base if the answering machine was plugged in. If you're willing to take a chance, the sound was great and it was very user friendly. I recommend it provided there is a good return policy should anything go wrong. Although I returned it several weeks ago, I've been searching for something comparable and have not found it. Hoping this one was just a lemon, I would give it another chance.

Its a pretty good phone for the price but the playback of messages are very poor and hard to understand. Reception is decent.

Our family and friends say that it sounds as if we are on a corded phone. It does't have that "tinny" or "cave echo" or "distant" sound to it. And to top it off even the hands free base set sounds as good. It allows our whole family to be on the phone at once. The features are very impressive. There are more choices than I could even imagine or request for a phone. And they all work great! The only feature (out of the dozens) that I'm disappointed in is the message recorder. It is digital and when you listen to your messages that you have recieved, they sound a bit like robots. Next time I would probably go with the same model without the message recorder.

I purchased this phone because of the great reviews. I should have listened to the review that informed me it was a great phone, when it worked. I had this phone for 2 weeks when the handset completely died. Calling the company for help was very frustrating because they transfered me from dept. to dept. and put me on hold each time for a significant amount of time. And then didn't help me at all. I finally took the phone back to the store. I will probably never buy another Uniden product. It has great features, but what good are they if the phone doesn't work.

I was looking to replace a cordless phone with caller id and a seperate old answering machine - this unit has the best of both. It took me a few days to get used to the caller id display - the text on it is quite smaller than on my previous unit and most other displays, however the smaller text allows for the entire date/time, full name and number to all be displayed at once, a very nice feature. Sound quality on the phone is excellent, no breaking up. The answering machine seems to work great too, lots of options and featres only found on more expensive models. A sure bet for a great caller id cordless with answering machine.