Home > Consumer Reviews > Panasonic Dect 6.0 Series 4 Handset Cordless Phone System with Answering System (KX-TG1034S)

Speaking as a loyal Panasonic phone owner for years... I'm a bit surprised by the flood of good reviews on this phone, my experience has been the opposite.

When I saw some of the negative reviews, I glanced over and then dismissed them, figuring they were just the exception based on a purchaser getting a lemon or folks that didn't understand the technology very well. The minority seems to have it right in this case.

PROBLEM:
The primary problem was an issue with the sound of my voice cutting in and out when I was on a call (your voice is fed back through the handset speaker normally). Many people may not realize that phones normally feedback your voice into the ear speaker until it ceases to work properly (as with these phones). When it happened, my first reaction was that the line had dropped and I would start saying "are you there, are you there?". When the other person invariably said "yes", I began to realize it was the phone malfunctioning. Another problem is static on the phone occurring randomly on calls. We've never had that problem until these new phones were put in.

I am returning the phones because of these two issues. However, there are some pretty glaring design issues I'd also like to draw your attention to.

DESIGN DISAPPOINTMENTS (design points that make me wonder, with lots of frustration, what Panasonic engineers were thinking):
-- Unlit keypad (I knew about this from other reviews, but seriously, previous Panasonic phones had lit keyboards, what genius decides to go backwards on a key feature like this)
-- Non-dedicated key for voicemail (yes, this phone has an answering machine, but I can't buy a non-answering machine phone anymore, thank you Panasonic... they could at least recognize that a fair amount of people will use voicemail and design with that in mind, their previous phones had that)
-- Cheap feel to the phone itself (felt and looked like a cheap plastic kids toy)
-- Clunky menus. The menus on the handset were not natural to flow through. It is not that hard to take the time to make use and flow of menus an easy and non-confusing thing. These felt like an after-thought.


The sad thing? I am going to stay with Panasonic since they still have the best quality phone in my mind, it just happens to be a phone they no longer produce and sell, the KX-TGA520M series phone. Looks like I'll be shopping eBay and Amazon marketplace.

Really disappointed with the direction Panasonic is going in with their phones.

Panasonic did their research and finally made a phone that works great and is made for the everyday consumer.
No tiny buttons. Great sound and easy to use. I suspect this cordless will be the largest selling phone on the market shortly. I got this phone one day after it came out and it was so good, I bought 2 more extention phones directly from Pansonic, Amazon didn't have them yet. The price for this phone is also the best for all the features.
Forget the other brands, I tried Uniden and GE and returned them both for various reasons. The GE 6.0 had a very poor ring sound and a button that turned the phone off was next to your cheek, which turned off the phone all the time. Buy the Pansonic 6.0

I recently bought these cordless phones and could not be more delighted. Their range and audio quality are in a class by themselves. At the price, they are the best value in an electronics product I have seen in some time.

Most configuration settings are automatically transferred to the other phones when entered into the first. Handy. The Phonebook can be transferred, in whole or in part, to any one or more of the other phones. Also handy. The system can accommodate up to six phones. In short, there is a lot to like and little or nothing to dislike about the Panasonic KX-TG1034S Dect 6.0 Cordless Telephone.

I bought these phones to replace Panasonic landline phones, which I bought in the `80s, but which still work perfectly. If this current group of Panasonic phones are half as satisfactory and last half as long as my old `80s model landline phones have, I will be a happy camper.

Very well thought out phones. We've had Uniden phones for a long time but I think Panasonic has leapfrogged them. Tons of advanced features, but what matters most to us is:

1)Great range, great reception, 4 phones can be charged and moved around anywhere. Sound quality is very good but for hearing-impaired it would be nice to push the volume up one more notch.
2)No interference with wireless networks or other devices.
3)Great battery system -- the included AAA NIMH rechargeable batteries have high capacity and do not have the Ni-Cad "memory" problem. So no charging hassles and long battery life -- handsets are rated as 13 hours talk time. Batteries should last for years, and then replacing NIMH AAAs is cheap. And nice battery gauges so you know if you're running low.
4) Super price for high quality 4-phone system. (This set available even cheaper from a leading wholesale warehouse store). And you can add up to two more (for total of 6) if you want a phone in every room.

Upgraded my 2.8 Panasonic phone system and am totally delighted. The intercom functions exactly like my office system and it's in use constantly.

I bought the base plus 3 and had it up and functioning straight out of the box. Excellent product.

Only negative? Answering machine doesn't "beep" when a message is received and doesn't show the number of messages. Minor problems.