AT&T 1080 Corded Speakerphone with Digital Answering System
Keep in touch with friends and family with this AT&T 4-Line Corded Speakerphone with Answering System. For absolute simplicity and freedom, the phone is headset compatible for hands-free use (headset is optional). Do you have a hearing aid? Don't worry, this phone is completely hearing aid compatible for natural sound and you can adjust the volume. A large, easy-to-read LCD screen displays the date, time, extension, and other data and is also compatible with Caller-ID and Call-Waiting display. With 32 Speed Dial locations and 200-number Caller ID history, you can keep track of your favorite friends and family. With its 4 incoming lines, you can put a call on hold to answer another call. And with its 3-party conferencing capability, you don't need to pay a fee for outside service. When you're not at home or just don't feel like picking up the phone, the AT&T 1080 has a digital answering machine. The Programmable Auto Attendant allows incoming calls to be routed to specific lines and allows storage of three distinct messages when no one is available to take the call.
Call Waiting/Caller ID (Service required from your local telephone company) Page, Intercom and Call Transfer Between Stations Flash/hold/mute/auto redial Hearing aid compatible 2.5mm Headset jack Programmable Auto Attendant 3-party conferencing capability Distinctive ring tones for each line Speakerphone allows hands-free conversations Receiver/Speakerphone/Headset/Ringer volume control 2 Switchable data ports for easy fax/modem connections 4 lighted line indicators 4-Line by 16 Character backlit LCD Expandable up to a total of 16 stations Memory loss protection Wall mountable Manufacturer's 1-year limited warranty
The AT&T 1080 Corded Speakerphone with Digital Answering System is perfect for businesses that need a Speakerphone that supports four lines. The phone is DSL compatible and has a three-party conferencing feature that lets you conduct business with three people together on three different lines. Each line has its own light indicator and can be set with a different ring tones for easy distinction of incoming calls. Automatic line selection means that when the phone is ringing and you pick up, you will be connected to the one that is ringing. The AT&T 1080 has a built-in digital answering machine that features 60 minutes of digital recording time, and a programmable auto attendant. It allows for remote access with programmable options and allows users to record memos. As your company grows, the phone system can be expanded to 16 stations with AT&T models 1040, 1040, and 1070. The phone allows you to page, intercom, and transfer calls between stations. A large display provides easy-to-read text for setup and caller information. The phone has a 200-entry memory and a 200-name-and-number caller ID history. Numbers stored in the caller ID history can be dialed directly; and with call waiting-capable caller ID, you can see who is calling even when you are already on the line. If you subscribe to a voicemail service, a red light blinks when you have voicemail waiting. The phone has 32 speed dial and 16 intercom number locations for one-button access to your most frequently called numbers. Memory loss protection prevents the phone from losing its saved data. For hands-free operation, the 2.5-millimeter jacks lets you connect a headset.
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AT&T 1080 Corded Speakerphone with Digital Answering System Reviews
Unfortunately, the speakerphone quit working almost immediately, and the headset feature had a loud hiss. I returned the phone for an exchange, and the exchanged unit had the identical problem. Amazon, understandably, would not exchange the phone yet again, saying the problem must be more widespread than initially believed. I wish AT&T would make their own products, using USA workers and greater quality control.
I wanted to like this phone. Then the 1070's headset feature quit working altogether. I have had bad luck with life expectancy of cordless multi-line phones (and I'm not hard on phones), so when I found this phone and read the reviews, I was enthused. I guess the quest for a quality two-line phone with answerer continues.
I fear I'm wishing for bygone days that will not be returning, at least any time soon. This is truly a disappointment because this phone has some really great features. I bought this model, and the AT&T 1070, for our home office.
The only annoying thing is the new call light comes on even with phone calls that I answer. Quality is superb, no problem with the speaker phone either. Phone worked great right out of the box. Not a dealbreaker by any means. Big, easy buttons to hit. The digital answering system is great (no subscription required).
Ability to use a headset (Have you ever tried to hold a handset while using your computer). This is a great product with lots of neat features. Clearing this red light is a real pain. Conference calling feature. This is definitely an improvement over my older AT&T telephone. Configuration control to set up features to suit the user. 3 lines (phone actually has 4 lines). The manuals (3 of them) are very detailed in how to configure and use the phone.
Built in voice mail digital recorder. The one thing I do NOT like:. Red light comes on with every call received, and stays on even if I answer the phone before the answering machine picks up, and it also stays on after I have listened to a voice mail message. 32 speed dial buttons. The features I like and use:. Actually many more features than I will ever use.
With two phones side-by-side, you can detect a slight millisecond or so delay as an Intercom page is encoded on your phone to be then decoded on the destination phone. If you are currently experiencing any issues with your Intercom on older non-KSU phones, you might want to give a pair of these a test run. No music-on-hold, no tones nothing but silence. The ugly: When integrated with an ATT 1080 with the "SYS EXT" voice messaging feature enabled, trying to figure out how to listen to your messages on any phone except the ATT 1080 is a huge headache. The good: The four-way directional button and center "Enter" button become your primary tool to quickly and easily select features without the need to remember codes or special key sequences. One big disappointment was with regards to the system recognizing when a caller on-hold had disconnected. The bad: If you transfer a call from one phone to the next, the caller hears nothing.
For example, when you lift the handset and press the Intercom button, the top half of the screen prompts "Intercom No." while the bottom half of the screen presents you to optionally "Page" a single extension (instead of simply ringing it) or to "Page All" and broadcast your announcement on all the phones in your home or office simultaneously. My guess is that AT&T would probably "recommend" that you purchase an ATT 1080 phone for every person who needs a voicemail/answering system, instead of using one ATT 1080 to serve voicemail for multiple ATT 1070 phone users as their advertising suggests. (However, the ATT 1080 does play a "Please hold" recorded announcement every few seconds when a caller is transferring to an extension by way of the built-in auto attendent included on that ATT 1080 phone. Each phone allows you to control the ringing tone, volume, and delay ringing options for each line individually. The buttons on the phone are self-explanatory and only serve the one function for which they are labeled.
Intercom calling worked flawlessly. But even that phone leaves the caller with dead air if they are put on hold or transferred by a human instead). Believe it or not, that level of control of line ringing assignments are usually reserved for KSU systems only. By keeping one function per button, and also utilizing the navigation menu-driven options through the phone's display, anyone can easily figure out how to do anything on these phones without ever needing to read any of the documentation. In fact, all too often, these "non-KSU" phones will have buttons with two or more functions not this new AT&T series. If they had offered an option to play a soft double-beep tone to the caller every couple of seconds, that would have been a worthwhile improvement over dead-air. Conclusion: Overall, this is a great telephone.
No longer will your Intercom calls be subjected to interference from a nearby radio station transmitter or other nuisance. It just seems to me this could have been better thought out. All-Page was loud and very practical for a busy home with office, or larger retail store. All features worked beautifully, each button pressed produced the expected result press the Transfer button while on a call, the LCD prompts "Transfer line to.". I tried everything in my "toolkit" of test equipment, but it seems these phones just don't recognize (or don't care) when a caller that you've placed on-hold chooses to hang up before you return to the call.
All related feature options appear on the blue backlit LCD screen when you are in a particular mode that offers more options. Another improvement, which is why I suspect these phones aren't backwards compatible with earlier AT&T "non-KSU" phones other than the 1000-series: the Intercom audio is digital, crystal clear. The system will continue to keep that line blinking on-hold until you retrieve it often to the frustration of loud dialtone in your ear. The sound quality is truly impressive and worthwhile. For a phone system that is so "menu-driven" by that directional navigation and "enter" button arrangement near the LCD screen, it is irritating to have to dig out a reference card to use this ATT 1070 phone to listen to your messages in the mailbox reserved exclusively for your extension but actually recorded and stored on the ATT 1080 voicemail/answering system.
The speakerphone sounds nice, although the volume of the speaker could've been louder (in my opinion).
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