Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic KXTC1866 900 MHz DSS Cordless Phone with Caller ID & Answering Device KX-TC1866B (Black)

We've had the KXTC-1866 for about a year and have found it's great except for two issues. First, the battery runs down quite rapidly. We usually get about a half-hour of talk time. Second, the volume of the message payback is very poor on remote pickup, even if we set the volume to max. I am putting in a new battery in hopes that it was defective.

Sound quality is not great but passable, a headset fixes that. Reception has been great, and the handset is much more solid than the one with the AT&T phone/answerer it replaces. But, while the answering machine here is fine I miss the great features of the AT&T unit.
To do it again I'd buy an AT&T answering machine and a sep. cordless phone. Seems like you can't get the best of both worlds in one.

I agree with the previous review that this phone has an impressive functional capability, but I think the one that I received was released from manufacturing on Quality Assurance's day off. Fresh out of the box, all audio information changed volume level in a random manner,with no programming.This includes receive signals well asinformational beeps. At times the received signal would fade away entirely; even with the user standing next to the base unit.While programming inputs to the Directory, the "save" key began sticking. Again, the occurence was random; at times it would operate properly and at other times the key would have to be pushed from two to six times before the command would be executed.I reluctantly concluded that this puppy was not going to heal itself and that my only re course was to box it up and return it. I am getting another model Panasonic and trust that it will perform up to my expectations since I have one other Panasonic that has been flawless.

I loved this phone. It had great features and it seemed well made and durable. Everyone in my family liked the phone. I thought I had finally found the perfect cordless phone. It stopped working after approximately 28 days. So I continue in my quest for the perfect cordless phone.

We have been looking for a 900 Mhz DSS phone with answeringmachine for a couple of weeks (in white only). I thought this phonewould be good, but I went to a store to check it out... and found thehandset is very small and thin. It is so small it is difficult tohold the phone between your sholder and ear. I didn't want the extraexpense of buying a headset, so we passed