Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic KX-TG2216FV 2.4 GHz GigaRange Digital Cordless Phone (Blue)

This phone is the highest rated cordless of the 143 that Amazon offers, and for good reason: equipment quality, sound clarity, and low price, offering the advantages of speakphone *and* cordless for less than half the price of similar products!

I've been looking for a decent cordless phone that doesn't cost a lot and will handle CID/Call Waiting...but, I also wanted something that doesn't feel like a pile of plastic in my hand and look like a cheap stamped out generic device. This phone, so far, has exceeded my expectations. Everything about it is quality. The packing..the included ear piece headset...the built in speakerphone...the manual. The one thing I wanted to find out in the manual was how to treat the battery and it defined that perfectly. I kind of knew this already, but it was great to see that they spelled it out in print. To achieve maximum memory/charge, it's important to let the battery discharge all the way before charging it again, at least for the first few cycles. Amazingly, this manual pointed that out.
The ear piece was, at first, hard to put on, but, duh, I read the manual and am now wearing it with great pleasure and fit...as well as great audio. It even has a volume and mut control on the cord.

Anyway...I'd recommend this phone highly. Comes in blue or red...I got the red..different and flashy.

I was on the quest for my match - my phone match that is. And I finally found it. I was very frustrated, since I went through one phone after another. Would take it out of the package, read the booklet, get the battery charged and then - nothing but dissapointment. Tried the VTch and Uniden and now this Panasonic phone. Even though I thought it was a little pricy I decided to give it a try. Does not have an answering machine, but that did not matter to me, since I have Voice Mail. Right from the start I was excited, since I just had to charge the phone for 6 hours and not 16 like the other phones. Excellent clarity and reception. Another feature I love is, that I am using the 10-10 phone #'s for cheap long distance and this phone can store phone # 36 digits long. So you plug all the numbers in and just hit "phonebook" and "dial". Great! Bought the phone in the blue/purple color. It also has a battery indicator like you know it from your cell phone. So, when the battery is getting low - put it back in the charger. I would recommend this phone to anybody.

... which is certainly a good thing. Now that I've bought this phone, its solid construction and excellent performance leads me to believe that this will be the last cordless telephone I purchase in a long time. It seems that I go through cordless telephones fairly often, usually thanks to the cheap-feeling construction and bad reception of other phones, but this Panasonic KX-TG2216 performs like a champ and looks made to last. And I can't recall any static or other ill effects in two weeks of owning it.

It seems Panasonic knows how to make a solid phone, and Amazon's price (at least when I purchased it) is a steal.

This is an excellent telephone. The sound is great, it's easy to program the phone book, and it even has a speakerphone - a must for making calls when you'll be on hold a while.

However, the wall mount is the most utterly stupid thing I've ever seen. The phone is meant to be kept on a counter or desk, sitting upright. All the wall mount does is provide a shelf - one that sticks out about a foot from the wall - to rest this base on. When people want to mount a phone on their wall, they want the thing to rest as flat against the wall as possible - not stick out a foot from the wall!

The other minor ding I'd give the phone is that there is no easy-to-see visual indicator when there have been calls missed. An older Panasonic caller id phone I had used a red light on the base to indicate missed calls. This made it handy when coming into the house to see if anyone had called without actually having to go to the phone. This model requires you to come right up to the phone to see the phone's display to determine if a call was missed.

Most people today put their phones on a horizontal surface, and I'd happily recommend this one for them. For people who want a wall-mounted phone though, there have to be better choices to make.