Uniden TRU9485-2 5.8 GHz Twin 1-Line Cordless Phone

I picked these phones because they were 5.8 ghz. which make them more safe to use and clearer sound. The most important thing was the orange background with black letters on the ID---as I can't see close that well anymore without my "readers" and I don't need them for this phone!!!! I would recommend these phones to anyone-----AND the base is a clear speakerphone so actually you have 3 phones!!!! Hope this helps!

This was an upgrade from our TRU8885+1 and it's not just a slight improvement in looks, this phone actually works better! The range has been improved while keeping the same signal quality and clarity we're learned to expect from Uniden. Thanks to these phones and the new waterproof extra handset we've picked up we're able to use the phones ANYWHERE on our property (even the pool), and that says a lot!

I needed a set like this because my house only has a working jack upstairs. This set is great because the second phone doesn't need a jack and the clarity is great, now I have a working phone downstairs! I wear hearing aids so I needed a great set that was hearing aid compatable and this set is everything I hoped it would be!!! The speaker phone is an added bonus because not only is the base a speaker phone, but the handsets are also. I also love that all you have to do is enter your data into the base phonebook and send it to the handsets. Uniden rules!

I had an uniden 2.4 GHz and was having some problems with an echo. I thought it was the phone, so I bought this better phone, but it is still happening. This 5.8 GHz also does not get as good reception outside as the older models, way older.
I am pleased with this phone, but not as much as I thought I would be.

After owning a number of cheap cordless phones (the last being a VTech), I decided to read reviews and not look for the lowest price. Saw this phone and it really wasn't that much more than a cheapie. Got it and love it! Excellent sound, phone has a usable speakerphone feature and the distance is twice that of my old phone. No antenna, the keys don't feel cheap. This is a great phone.

I needed more phones in my home on the same system, and this set gave me the comfort of a waterproof handset that I use in my bathroom without worry of water damage to the hand set.

The Uniden TRU 9485-2 cordless phone.
Having received my device as a refurb product, I first off, had no blister packaging to tear into with a utility knife. Cut the fancy packaging and sell it to me in a brown cardboard box!
Refurbs had no scratches or dents either. Looked and performed good as new!
Uniden website has the entire owner's manual in Adobe format. Print only what you need and save a tree!

Functionality of the TRU 5.8 Ghz models is a step-up from the 900Mhz Uniden phones I owned previously, with cool remote message management features away from home and from the cordless handset, and the much-needed do-not-disturb button that families with quiet time deserve everywhere! So your eldest daughter has friends that like to ring her up at 3am. No sweat! Hit the DND button and have her return the call in the morning. Speaker phone feature, both at the base and hand set, for those of use who still like challenging our friends into guessing whether or not they're being "conferenced" in, or not.

As for the 5.8Ghz frequency range. I have not tried to walk down the neighborhood to test radio ranging. Minimal interference and greater security was promised to us in the 1990's with the 900Mhz models, which truly
was an improvement over the 49Mhz (and less secure) models of the late 1980's. That is, someone with a police scanner or other cordless phone could easily eavesdrop on your conversations. This is much less so with the TRU series, at least I believe!

As for which radio frequency band cooks meat the best? I don't know that answer, but hope that 5.8Ghz doesn't leave us with brain tumors under our ear lobes in twenty years, long after the devices have outlived their useful life cycle.

And the signature orange LED glow on the LCD backlighting that Uniden has branded in this series of phones make for a trademarking hit.

In addition, bravo for not selling me a device with Ni-Cad batteries, rather this deal came with Nickel Metal Hydride batteries in the cordless handsets, providing greater battery recharge cycles and minimal "memory effect". I believe all Ni-Cad batteries new and old, should be removed from the
planet immediately!

As of 2009, it's a shame most of us will be dropping our land lines and totally relying on cellular services soon. Beyond EBay, devices in this class are starting to pop up at wholesale liquidators everywhere.

It is with hope that we'll still be able to use this fading generation of land-line devices with our Skype converter boxes and personal computers, at least until they start to feel like heavy, burdensome, antiques that our futuristic lifestyles increasingly move away from.

2009/03/28

I love this phone set! I live on 10 acres of land and can still get reception 7 acres away from the hand set out in the pasture. I love too many things to list about this phone, but absolutely love the intercom, speakerphone, room monitor, do not disturb feature, privacy button,ring tones for differnt callers, record phone calls, mute, transfer from one headset to the other,and the list goes on! This is the second set I bought because it is the best! I can get my housework or cooking done when it is on speaker phone or hold my new grandson without getting a crimp in my neck. Best phone I've ever come across and just bought another set for my sister in VT. She can put one handset in her barn. In my opinion , Uniden is the best and they last for years. I'm sick a lot, so the do not disturb feature is great because the answering machine will still take your calls, but the phone won't ring. You won't hear the answering machine, but it will take the messages. It's the best phone system I've ever seen. That's not even a 1/4 of the features on this phone! Highly recommend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a great phone, far surpassing my other Uniden and Panasonic models. Highly recommend. Really good ergonomically, too.

Uniden TRU9485-2 Twin Cordless Phone Shipping was far to HIGH ON AN OLD damaged product PRODUCT!
Thanks!

Full featured, good distance between the handset and base and very tough ! They have taken some severe accross the room wall hits a few times and they just keep going, just ordered more for other rooms and garage.

The phone came really quick and was as described. Get a phone on eBay and save money and the trip to the retail store! Good luck bidding!

Phone arrived in good shape, but not great. I was meant to believe in the auction that it was a refurb. It may have been a refurb, but it didn't come from the factory, it came straight from someone's home...there was still an outgoing message on the answering machine, as well as phone numbers stored in it. The extra handset had a not taped to it saying "no data on screen", which was accurate, the phone itself works, but you can't see who's calling. I contacted the seller about these issues, and the only response I recieved was "handset is charged".....whatever that means.

BUYERS BEWARE!!!

I like everything about it. It works very well and the value/price relationship was top of scale. Good features.

Within a week, one of the two handsets crapped out and Uniden has been totally unresponsive on their warranty.

I'll never buy another Uniden product.

not sure how and why, but the phones have background noise on the phone line. Not happy at all. Other futures are great, but I got the phone to make phone calls not to use other futures.