Home > Consumer Reviews > Uniden TRU3485 2.4 GHz DSS Titanium Cordless Phone with Caller ID, Speakerphone & Answering Device

I bought this phone about a month ago. The sound clarity is excellent with no discernable background noise. And the phone works well even 100 feet from the base station. The phone has many useful features and only two minor flaws that I could find.

One flaw is that even though it displays the number of an incoming call while the phone is in use (provided you have call-waiting ID), it does not save that number. Phone numbers of calls that come in while the phone is not in use (caller-ID) are saved correctly in the caller-ID list.

Another flaw is that long-distance numbers displayed in the caller-ID list do not start with the number "1". So you can't just display a number from the caller-ID list and press redial if the number is long-distance. I realize that it is not always possible to tell if an incoming number is long-distance, but if it is from a different area code then chances are good it is long-distance and a "1" is needed.

As I said, these are minor flaws. Everything else works as advertised. And that's a lot of features. Good job Uniden.

I'm 45 years old and just a couple of months ago had to start using eye glasses. Now I'm searching for a cordless phone that has a lot of volume.....I think my hearing is the next thing to go. This Uniden has tons of volume if your looking for a phone that need this. I would rather have a phone that has to much than not enough that way I can turn it down if it's to loud. But a cordless phone cannot be judged only on volume alone, it has to be clear and this one is definatly that. The speaker phone also a plenty of volume and callers on the other say it sounds pretty good.

This phone works very well with call waiting caller ID and another plus with call waiting caller ID with options. If you have this feature with your phone company you can (while your on a phone call) send a message to the caller trying to call you to hold, or that your busy, or you can conference them with the current call or you can drop the first call and answer the second....very handy and something I wish more phones had.

My only complaint about the phone is why only 20 directory numbers on the handset and why not in alphabetical order? Twenty numbers just isn't enough nowadays and if they were in alphabetical order it would be easier to locate the person that your trying to call. If the phone had at least 50 directory slots and was capable of putting them in alphabetical order I would have given this phone 5 stars. I noticed Uniden is getting ready to come out with a new line of phones, hopefully Uniden has addressed this short comming. The answering machine part works well and is easy to set up. Checking messages can only be done at the base unit, no part of the answering machine is accessable from the cordless handset.

Conclusion:

If your looking for a cordless phone with clarity and an abundance of volume and can live with the 20 number directory limitation than this is the phone for you.

The long list of features on this phone made it an incredible buy. The price was well within what I was able to spend. The phone has worked perfectly for me. I'm not big on electronic gadgets but I feel like I've more than gotten my money's worth.
I don't use the caller ID or call waiting features at this time but they're there if I need them. The clarity of the calls is very good and I feel like I've purchased two phones and an answering machine for one low price. I'm very satisfied with the product.

I have been looking for a phone that has all the features this phone has for over a year and I finally found it! When I work from home, I need a phone that has a speakerphone with a mute button so I can take conference calls, which this does. Also, I like the fact that I can roam all around the house and even yard and beyond with it comfortably on my belt (and a headset not included)and the clarity doesn't change. I just enabled the caller ID and answering features and they work predicatably. I checked the consumer reports ratings and uniden fared extremely well in the cordless phones. Most of all, I like the fact that it is 2.5Ghz DSS which is about as secure as you can get with a cordless phone. I liked it so much I replaced our regular home phone as well.

The features on this phone are fantastic. There is a mute button for the speaker phone. Dual keypads, lighted display panel also tells you how long the call was. Call id. Answering machine. The background noise though was enough for me to return the phone. It didn't matter where I was in my house the sound was poor.