AT&T 1718 Digital Answering System (Wind Chill White)
Advanced American Telephones designs and produces the telephone products that millions of people enjoy every day. AT&T's voice quality, product selection, and reliability make these telephone products your best choice. They reflect a long and distinguished history of product excellence dating back over 100 years. Today, the company's product line is one of the most extensive in the industry, including corded and cordless phones, answering systems, and phone-related accessories. AT&T cordless telephones are perfect for a person who wants mobility and flexibility while making calls.AT&T 1718 is a state-of-the-art digital answering system. It features 19-minutes digital record time, message guard memory, remote access, CID number announce, call screening / intercept, and more.
With the AT&T 1718, you can simplify and take control of your telephone life. You decide whether to interrupt your work to answer an incoming call. Use a wide range of features such as the audible message alert, call screening, the time and date stamp, message counter, and memory protection. You can access your messages away from home using touch-tone controls. Other benefits include variable-speed playback, voice prompts, an announce-only feature, and a memo function. The 1718 records up to 19 minutes of messages. The 1718 can announce the number accompanying a message if you have a subscription to caller ID service; however, the 1718 does not have a caller ID display.
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AT&T 1718 Digital Answering System (Wind Chill White) Reviews
This machine allows you to set the day of the week and the year, but not the month or the day. I have one of these; I hate it. This makes no sense.
Need to find a 'hearable' answering machine somewherethe old tape units weren't great, but were definitely better than this. I find this machine to be usable when I'm home; but when I access it remotely with my cell phone, the voice quality issue is REAL TOUGH.
If you need a rudimentary system to grab your 3 or 4 messages a week just to make sure you don't miss anything important, then give it a shot.
The audible time/date stamp with each message just gives you a day of the week, not a date; hence old messages sound as though they came through just that week.
It's true that the sound quality is not the greatest, but I've had no real problem understanding any messages. Remote access is dodgy, especially with a cell phone.
If you are a "power user" and frequently check your messages from afar, this is not for you. If you're looking for a machine that's very affordable and that you're primarily going to use to check your messages at home, then you might consider this machine.
If I do call in and manage to successfully retrieve some or all of them before it cuts me off, it resets the machine so the LED no longer blinks (neither fast nor slow) to indicate that there are messages on the machine. There is no battery to backup the time/date feature either. If you lose power, you must reset. This machine cuts off when I call in to try to review my messages - this is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING. Altogether a completely unsatifactory machine. Therefore, if the message waiting is for my husband, I have to call my phone again to leave a message for him to retrieve his messages.
Even a land line has been a problem. It cuts off midway through. A cheap machine, invest in something better. I can't seem to check my messages reliably from a cell phone.
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