Customer Reviews

Uniden TCX800 Accessory Handset for TRU8800 Expandable Phones (Silver/Black)

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While the description says this is for 8800 series phones, note that the TRU8866 2-line phone requires the TCX860 handset.

Bought two of these to go with my 8860 base,(total of four) and the Vonage internet phone service. The Uniden phones are the best I've ever used for clarity and no interference,(wev'e had over a dozen phones in the last couple of years)works out great with the Vonage service too!

Just in response to a previous poster - you indeed can "name" each handset. Under "menu," go to "handset setup," and then "banner." I've named mine by room (i.e. "Office"). After naming each handset, once you press "intercom," it will give you the banner name you've chosen as well as the handset number as an option for calling other extentions.

Uniden did think of everything. I've replaced my fairly new Panasonic 5.8 GHZ mulitple handset system with this one and it no longer sounds to my friends and family as if I am making calls from a busy train station. Crystal clear. Also am thrilled with the possibility of having up to 10 handsets!

I have had trouble with other cordless phones in the past so I did a lot of comparing and shopping before buying the Uniden TRU8860-2 which includes two Uniden TCX800 handsets. I am very pleased. I gave them a good trial for a month before buying more. It has been six months now and I have seven handsets, the system can handle up to ten.

First of all these phones sound great, both to me and to the people on the other end. Even the speakerphone sounds normal, not like you are calling from a barrel in a foreign country. The range is very good, I can talk clearly from anywhere in my large house and anywhere outside in my kind of small city lot. I haven't tried to see how far the maximum range is. I do not have any problems with my wireless home network either since these phones are 5.8 GHz. Most 2.4 GHz phones interfere with wireless networks which are also 2.4 GHz.

The feature set on these phones is very respectable. You can name each handset, which is great when you use the intercom feature or for transfering calls to another handset. You can also use two handsets like walkie-talkies without tying up the phone line at all. You can use this feature anywhere, even camping, since it is not dependant on the base unit. They also have a baby monitor feature for evesdropping on babies or anyone else for that matter. And there is a call privacy feature if you don't want any other handsets to be able to pick up and join your conversation. They have a plug in for a headset and a beltclip so you can run around the house flapping both arms while talking on the phone. I suppose this has other uses too.

All in all these are the best phones I have ever owned. They work with several different base units too. My base unit does not have an answering system but other models do and you can access your messages from any handset in the house.

I hope these handsets last forever because they do everything I want from a phone and they do it well.

Love these things. I have 5 handsets so far, and I'm thinking I need two more.

I set the banner on each handset to things like "Kitchen", "LivingRoom", "MasterBed", "Garage1", etc. Once you do that, you just hit the "intercom" button and the list of handsets pops up with the banner names, and you select the appropriate destination by name. Love that. Every handset can be a room monitor by a similiar function.

Every handset has a speakerphone function too:) Joy. Easy to use, easy setup. great functionality.

Phone works well. Terrific clarity in sound. Have now installed five phones through the house and the system works very nicely. Would have liked to see some features, such as phone directories, capable of being entered once for the entire system, instead of headset by headset. Still, the phones work well as phones and the quality and clarity is as good as any other phone we've had in the home.

This hand set was easy to program and is exactly the same as the ones that come with the phone. I have the TRU 8885 but this hand set works with a number of Uniden models.

Some many great features; long battery life, battery life indicator, speaker phone (my favorite), answering machine access, easy to read in any light, lighted keys, and more.

A great addition, and well worth the money.

The Uniden TCX-800 is lightweight but the features are full blown. The handset speakerphone is as good as any I've tested. Plus the Caller ID and phonebook services are really functional and make things easy on the average user. I really like the orange backlit screen on the phone too - it makes reading the numbers and information so much easier than the competitor's products. To top things off, the sound clarity is outstanding on the handset. I feel that the connections I get with my cordless are better than what I was getting with my corded phones! Overall, I am extremely satisfied with this product - it was well worth the money spent and capability-wise, it offered more features that its competitors' products.

I love this system with or huge home works everywhere upstairs downstairs in the back yard. WE also have a teenager so works great when he is upstairs in his room don't have to yell for him pick up the phone and their is an option that i hit and it beeps his phone so he picks up and we can chat. Also the room monitor works great since we also have a small child I can pick it up and listen to see if she is awake yet. I like the long answer machine you can set it to run for up to 4 minutes for one message which works well when you have a home business the customers don't get cut off after 30 second to a minute. Each handset also has a speaker phone so I can multitask on the phone I just sent the reciever down hit speaker and that also works great. If you have caller ID each phone can have different rings and also can be set so the phone rings differently when certain people in your phone book calls. There is 20 different ring tones on the hand set. Their is also a copy mode so you don't have to enter the phone book individually on each handset their is a copy and send mode to send to the other handset. Their is also a transfer mode so you can transfer the call to another handset and it will ring the other handset for it to be picked up. You also can record phone calls as well. Their is no static or interferance from other electronics. A wonderful phone for the price.

These phones are great! I can walk all over the house, inside and out, and there is no signal degradation. I use the speaker function all the time and people can even tell they are on a speakerphone. I have four units hooked up to the base unit and they all work great!