Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic KX-TG2344B 2.4 GHz DSS Cordless Phone with Dual Handsets and Answering System

This is a very nice phone. Excellent range and very clear. Havent had a good one like this in a long time. Usually bought Uniden but my last few didnt last long and was always having clarity problems. Anyway, this Panasonic phone is wonderful. Its easy to use and set up. Having two cordless headsets is great. In my bedroom I dont have a phone jack and this setup is perfect for my situation. I can now leave my one phone in my computer room and have the other in my bedroom. No more dragging around the cordless phone. Thanks Panasonic for making a great product.

I bought this phone to replace an older 900MHz Panasonic cordless phone. Since this 2.4GHz phone is newer I was expecting a lot more features to be available on it. For one thing, I didn't expect this newer phone to have a much shorter limit on how many phone numbers it can store. With the older phone I never had a problem reaching a limit. With the new phone, while manually entering the numbers, I realized the memory is limited to 30 numbers. What a pain! With the price of memory being so cheap these days, why limit the numbers you can store on a handset?

Another issue is the whole transfer of your phone book from one phone to another. Panasonic offers such a service through a so-called Caller IQ technology, which uses a third-party company. This company charges some really outrageous fees, and has a poor privacy policy. The Caller IQ protocol is not described anywhere, and as a result there are no other companies or open source implementations for this capability. I think this situation is not good for Panasonic, so why did they choose to go into such an arrangement?

I'm very dissappointed I don't see much improvements in the usability and interoperability with today's increasingly connected set of devices. Maybe the whole business is so low margin, manufacturers don't want to spend money of R&D for newer features. This situation seems to be common with all the other manufacturers too :(

Otherwise this phone has great reception and features. I have a wireless 802.11b network operating at the same frequency with this phone, and I haven't noticed any problems in reception. The ability to have two people talking on the handsets with a remote person is also great, and there are no noticeable sound deterioration or echoes as with two separate 900MHz phones. If you're looking for a decent phone with answering machine capabilities, and can live with the arbitrary limit of 30 numbers in the phone book, you should consider this one.

If you are looking for a good bang for your buck, this is it. Great clarity, sturdy phone and Panasonic reliability. I have dropped it a few times, and phone still works fine. The handset speakerphones are very clear, and the phone has a very legible display. The lighted keypad is a plus. This phone is a great alternative as compared to the almost twice as expensive 5.8 GZ phones.

The only minus is that there is no speakerphone on the base unit, which is why I gave it 4 stars out of five.

My wife loves it mainly because she used to lose our old cordless phone in our 2 story house. The dual handset works perfectly for us. The features we love 1) dual handsets 2) speaker on both the handsets (my wife uses it while in the kitchen) and now the kids and us can all talk to grandma 3) clear clear reception 4) answering machine with time stamp 5) Voice enhancer is amazing! 6) phone book
Why not 5 stars ? We've been using it for only 2 weeks now and didn't get to use all the features yet.

This phone is everything my Uniden wasn't. Easy to set up, easy to use, good sound on the handset speakerphone. I can use it out in the yard. Plus it's a little longer, so that when I hold it to my ear, the mouthpiece is near my mouth, instead of the middle of my cheek. What a concept! Also, coolness: there is a red ring-shaped LED on the top of the antenna, which lights up when you have a message on the answering machine (or when you push the "find handset" button on the base unit.) Anyway, I think it's a very good unit, I hope it lasts. My old, tank-tough Uniden lasted many years, the new Uniden replacement only lasted a few months, died twice, and the second time, Uniden wanted 48 bucks to fix it, even though it was still under warranty. To heck with that.
UPDATE-nearly a year later, everything's working perfectly. I'm really glad I got this phone set. Uniden can kiss my receiver.