AT&T 1719 Digital Answering Machine with Audible Caller ID
Advanced American Telephones designs and produces the AT&T telephone products - the products that millions of people enjoy every day. The voice quality, product selection, and reliability make AT&T telephone products your best choice.AT&T telephone products reflect a long and distinguished history of product excellence dating back over 100 years. Today, this product line is one of the most extensive in the industry, including corded and cordless phones, answering systems, and phone-related accessories.PRODUCT FEATURES:19 Minutes Digital Record Time;Call Screening/Intercept;Memo;Message Guard Memory;Remote Access;Stand-Alone answering system;Voice Prompts.
Manage your calls with versatility and convenience using AT&T's model 1719 digital answering machine. The device holds 19 minutes and up to 100 voice messages, all of which are committed to non-volatile memory so you'll never lose a message--incoming or outgoing--in the event of a power failure. When you're home, take advantage of a variety features designed for convenience. Announcement monitor lets you hear, if you wish, the outgoing announcement and resultant messages. Number announce verbally announces an incoming telephone number before you answer the call. Number store causes the system to announce a caller's number as it plays back a message. Call screening/intercept lets you pick up after someone has begun leaving a message. Audible message alerts beep every 15 seconds when you have new messages. Multispeed playback lets you listen to messages at half, normal, or double speed. You can also choose to accept calls from blocked numbers or present callers with a message alerting them that you do not accept calls from blocked numbers. When you're out, you'll enjoy full remote operation for everything from playing and deleting messages to recording new announcements, recording memos, listening to voice help, and setting the clock. A handy two-setting toll-saver feature lets you configure the device for 2/4 (so you hear just two rings before the machine picks up when you have messages and four rings when there are none) or 4/6 (four rings with messages, six without). A telephone is not required for operation, though telephone service is. What's in the Box
Answering machine with single fixed RJ-11 phone-jack cable, AC power adapter, and a user's manual Note: Number announce/store and the blocked-number feature require caller ID, a paid service from your local phone company.
AT&T 1719 Digital Answering Machine with Audible Caller ID Accessories
AT&T 1719 Digital Answering Machine with Audible Caller ID Reviews
It is compact. Works very well for my needs & performs functions as described. with good features including the digital sound.
I therefore won't recommend an item that will not answer calls from out of state and of which the company ignores legitimate questions from customers. The user guide did not address this issue so I went on the AT&T Customer Support web-site and asked if this was a malfunction with the machine, or a known problem: I received no reply. However, it does not answer calls originated from outside Rhode Island. I confirmed this by trying to call from Virginia (where I live), and on trips to Maine and Massachusetts with both land-line and cell phones. It was delivered quickly and the set up was easy.
I bought this for my Dad in Rhode Island. Most of all, the lack of customer service support will lead me to keep away from AT&T products in the future. It picks up and then disconnects.
However, some units have a pathetic 2 digit access code (like the panasonic cordless combo unit), so this is 5X better than them (they disallow a range of codes). NOT the month. That's good when you get home and glance over; you don't have to work to know if someone's called you. The messages are retained if the power goes out, but the greeting and time are erased. Remote access codes should be at LEAST 4 digits long to prevent abuse. After trying out a panasonic combo cordless phone and answering machine, which I found out has a critical design flaw, I decided to keep my old telephone and just get an answering machine.
Not a sexy machine but it does the job nicely. Not a big deal and I have it in my UPS anyway so that won't matter. Anyway, that's not a big deal. My only complaint is that the remote access code is only 3 digits, which is barely enough to guard against someone trying to steal your messages. Why would I care to know the year BEFORE the month. 3 is cutting it too close.
They should have just left out the year. The date saved will be something like "Saturday 5:32 PM, 2005". One annoyance is the date & time storage.
The machine stores the day, time and year. Just strange. It's barely adequate.
I don't need anything fancy schmancy. Obviously the order of precedence should be time, day, month, year. The blinking message indicator is obvious from far away.
This answering machine was easy to set up. (me scratching head.uh duh did I set that up right).
It works great. I have had this machine for well over a year now. I have bought two more for other members of my family. Can't beat the price either.
Can not even understand my own outgoing message - sounds like talking through a blanket. Tried rerecording 25 times to no avail.
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