AT&T 1760 Digital Answering System with Caller ID
The telephone products produced by Advanced American Telephones reflect a long and distinguished history of product excellence dating back over 100 years. Today, its product range is one of the most extensive in the industry, including corded and cordless phones, answering machines, and phone-related accessories.The AT&T Digital Answering System 1760 with Caller ID/Call Waiting provides you with advanced features and options that give you everyday pleasure of using this sophisticated device. Tapeless Digital Technology allows recording outgoing announcements and incoming messages on a microchip. Digital benefits include instant playback, selective save or delete, instant skip or repeat and scan backward or forward within any message. Instant Playback lets you play your messages instantly - no waiting for tapes to rewind. Selective Save and Delete function lets you delete specific messages and save only those you want to keep. Skip and Repeat feature lets you skip forward or backward to any message you want to hear. Caller ID with call waiting capability allows you to view the name, number, time and date of incoming calls at a glance, even those on Call Waiting. Memo records messages for others or reminders for yourself. Memos are stored along with the incoming messages and retrieved at the machine or remotely from another touch-tone phone. With Remote Access function you can listen to your messages, change your outgoing announcement and more, when calling in from any touch-tone phone.
Don't miss important calls just because you happen to be away from the phone. The AT&T 1760 records your incoming messages along with caller-ID information and the time and date. Plus, you get the convenience and reliability of all-digital tapeless technology. Setting up the 1760 was easier than any other caller ID/tapeless answering device (TAD) we've reviewed. We just plugged in the AC adapter and the phone cord, pressed the Options buttons, and followed the on-screen menus. The clock was easy to set and the menus are so straightforward that we set up the home and local area codes for caller ID and got the TAD features working in less than five minutes. The menus inform you, for example, that you can set the TAD to answer on one to seven rings or on two different toll-saver ringing options. We had to consult the manual only once, to verify that we had correctly reset the factory-prerecorded outgoing message. In our tests, removing the AC power stopped the clock but did not erase our messages even after several hours; AT&T's Message Guard protects messages from power failures. The sound quality of our recorded messages was good but not perfect. All messages were clear but had "artifacts," apparently from data compression, just as we would expect for a TAD in this class. The 1760 can record up to 45 calls using data compression techniques. If you want a simple answering device with caller ID/call waiting that offers the convenience of a tapeless design and easy setup, then we highly recommend the AT&T 1760. Pros:
- Easy menu-driven setup
- Records up to 45 calls
- 99-call history in caller ID
Cons:
- Four-minute recording limit per message
AT&T 1760 Digital Answering System with Caller ID Accessories
AT&T 1760 Digital Answering System with Caller ID Reviews
After reading other reviews, perhaps we were just lucky. But,hey, it lasted this long for us. Just missed our first message this week. Have only lost 1 message by deleting the call history before hearing the message. Now am worried that we will miss more messages.
However, a simple call to that person solved the problem. After using this machine for about 5 years, I must say I am NOT disappointed. Yes, the display could be lit, but I have not had trouble seeing it. We get many calls each day and use the caller id to screen them, so messages are recorded frequently.
Display said message, we heard someone recording a message, went to retrieve it and although the display said "msg" and the light was on, nothing was there. Just not sure whether to replace with same one or go to different brand.
I would echo the complaint that the LCD is not backlit, and as I said it is less than intuitive, but overall, it's a great deal. This machine is not as intuitive as some AT&T products I've used before, but unless you do something wrong, it is very dependable. I was scared to order this answering machine because of the other reviews. After using the machine for a couple of weeks, I understand the problems, but do not find them to be of much concern.
I suffered with this machine for 30 days before returning it to the store. The whole machine was unreliable - messages got cut off, sound quality was mixed, I had difficulty reading the display, and the controls were a bit too difficult to use. I switched to a Casio and am much happier. That's after having owned AT&T answering machines for over 10 years. When you read the package it sounds like a great machine with many useful features. Please, learn from my mistake. And it would be, if the features worked.
After going thru a bunch of prompts, a tape recording told me to "replace the batteries and the tape." This unit has neither one. I had an answering machine for years and decided to update to a newer model and bought this one because it was closest to the one Consumer Reports recommended - big mistake. Three months later it's broken and going thru AT&T's help line was a big pain.
The machine does not offer what the editorial review says it does in terms of number of messages and length of total messages. Set-up is very easy. In two months, it appears to be working well enough for just receiving calls and deleting them. Sound is clear enough. ( )
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