Canter Bridge

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I tend to trust the buyers at Costco on products like this. Their judgments rarely fail, and they’ve certainly put good value for money into their warehouse store with the Uniden cordless phone. You can of course buy this phone at lots of other places too, but the Costo endorsement means something.

We live in an 1930s era house with two stories + an office basement. The base station on the Uniden stays on the first floor, where heavy foot traffic makes it an easy visit to check on messages. One additional handset stays upstairs and the other in my basement office.

Each handset fits nicely into a vertical position on its own stand. Reholstering the handset doesn’t require fidgeting or that you hit the bullseye. Just drop it in roughly the right place and it settles into its stand. This makes a virtual ‘no-look’ hangup possible when I’m working at my desk. It’s not a big day, but saves a few seconds per day and removes one slight irritation from life. I’ll take that when I can get it.

We’ve had excellent voice quality and no problems with this phone. The expandable feature means you can add handsets as you need them, but so far our two dogs and one cat have not demanded their own apparatus.

If Costco’s buyers choose it, you’ll rarely go wrong. You can find a cheaper phone and answering system, but I’ve not seen better value.