Uniden 1580 DECT 6.0 Phone Review

Unfortunately for my wife I enjoy for some bizarre reason to collect phones.

My recent prize is from the Uniden Family .

The 1580 3 set Dect 6.0 Phone.

I have always liked Uniden products, I used to have a radar detector and that was great and then I had a few phones and I liked them too.  The Older Uniden product however seemed to have better quality standards than the newer product sets.  I hope that is changing.  We shall see.  The call quality is great as I had expected.. Like my Panasonic's this does not interfere with my wireless networking  in the house since it is DECT and operates at the 1.9GHz frequency. In my limited exposure so far it seems to play fine with my other DECT phones as well.  I have multiple incoming phone lines, hence my need to many phones.  As usual The DECT technology seems to provide decent range, I am suspect of the battery however and you will see that below.  It seems to have most of the features You may want but please choose carefully.   Personally I can not  find a jack on mine for a headset,  still looking..  I think it's not there.

Here are some highlights technically of the phone:

DECT 6.0 Interference Free Cordless Frequency - (1.9 GHz Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications)

• Digital Answering System
  

• Copy Phonebook from Headsets Wireless Network Friendly
  

• Expandable - Register 6 Handsets to 1 Base
  

• Caller ID/Call Waiting* - (*Requires a telephone company service subscription)
  

• 30 Caller ID Handset Memory Locations
  

• Handset Speakerphone - This feature gives you the freedom to use the handset as a speakerphone.
  

• Phonebook Features_70 Names
  

• Intercom or Call Transfer Between Handsets
  

• Up to 12 Hours Talk Time
  

• 7 Day Standby
  

• Personalized Ringers
  

• Last 10 Number Redial
  

• Bilingual Menus (Eng/Sp)
  

• Ni-Cd Rechargeable Battery Included -SERIOUS Bummer

Things I Like - The Pros:

• I still like the Uniden voice Quality. 

• Number of messages counter on base (my Panasonic does not have this) nice bonus.

• Seems to have a OK speakerphone to use on conference calls I am on a lot

• Unlike the Panasonic's I have this unit allows you to name each handset this is handy as for other brands you have to page transfer by number. 

• One master phone book for all the phones 

• Lighted keypad, nice for night dialing

• Screen any incoming messages from any phone and listen to recorded messages from any phone.

• Easy to add any extra handsets if you might want to , this seems common nowadays. 

• Like most phones this style it requires only one phone jack needed for the base and all the satellite phones

Thing I Do Not Like - The Cons :

• No headset jacks (Serious Big Bummer for Me) 
  

• Single voice mail box answering machine, I wish I one of these would allow for multiple in boxes. 
  

• No keypad/speakerphone on base unit, not a huge deal but it would be nice since the speakerphone is usable.
  

• Big ICK - Unlike the Panasonic's use of AAA rechargeable batteries this thing uses ANCIENT style NiCd Batteries and will suffer form memory effects. 
  

• Did not come with the things to mount it to your wall if you want, not a big deal for me but others may want this
  

• Past experience tells me Uniden's break, this still worries me. I'll keep you all updated. 
  

My Conclusions:

This is a OK phone from my point of view, I use it differently than my Panasonic , It's not used as much or for conference calls that much so the lack of a headset jack and less than stellar battery selection is OK.  I do really like Uniden Voice Quality however and I think it sounds a bit nicer than my Panasonic, but not by much.    I suspect that if you need to use this phone as hearing disability enabled it might not cut it for beware there.