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Summary: Difficult to Use, Poor Quality Sound
Review: All the useful features of the Casio Phonemate TA-119 Answering Machine and Speakerphone prompted me to purchase it and try it out. While most of the features would normally be useful they are very difficult to use. Programming the machine with multiple greetings using the greeting file was a difficult task thanks to the poorly worded and often confusing instructions. Switching from one greeting to another is even much more difficult. Switching the greetings evolves several steps and its actually easier to just record a new one each time the greeting needs to be changed. Furthermore, the greetings sound quality is very poor. One could find many of the same features as in this machine without the useless greetings file for much less. I wouldn't recommend this answering machine for this reason.
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Summary: Difficult to Use, Poor Quality Sound
Review: All the useful features of the Casio Phonemate TA-119 Answering Machine and Speakerphone prompted me to purchase it and try it out. While most of the features would normally be useful they are very difficult to use. Programming the machine with multiple greetings using the greeting file was a difficult task thanks to the poorly worded and often confusing instructions. Switching from one greeting to another is even much more difficult. Switching the greetings evolves several steps and its actually easier to just record a new one each time the greeting needs to be changed. Furthermore, the greetings sound quality is very poor. One could find many of the same features as in this machine without the useless greetings file for much less. I wouldn't recommend this answering machine for this reason.
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Summary: Easy to use, clear sound quality
Review: I bought this economical model to replace an old PhoneMate model I got in 1988 and which went on the blink in 1993 due to the capstan drive for the message cassette having failed on me. Having this previous experience with PhoneMate and their likeable features induced me to seek a suitable replacement from the same company. This specific model appealed to me greatly and buying it from Amazon with their great prices and shipping made it a little more appealing to me. First, there's no audio tapes to worry about, so there's no degradation of your greeting(s) over a period of time as with constant use of audio cassettes, nor is there the operational problem of moving parts, as became the case with the old PhoneMate. Second, having the feasability to make your own 10 greeting messages is a nice feature although I opted to use the default PhoneMate machine greeting message, "Please Record Message", << beep >>. Still, it's nice to have a choice for when conditions dictate it. And the third feature that I found very nice to have is the storage area that you can transfer the message(s) to so you can "clear the que" in a manner of speaking. So is having that speakerphone option. On the down side, the short amount of recording time pales when you compare it to the 30 minutes on the old PhoneMate cassettes. Consumers will have to be patient waiting for the industry to develop longer recording capabilities in this digital techonology. I found the speaker qualities to be close to the old PhoneMates in terms of understanding what the machine was saying, so it was no significant improvements there. Overall, I'm glad I bought it. It's faster to operate compared to the old cassette versions from PhoneMate and there's no wear and tear. Ideally, it should last me a lot longer than the first PhoneMate I had. I'd recommend it to anyone who's familiar with the old answering machines, who's looking for a fine economical model and who can put up with a short amount of recording time.
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Summary: A Good Replacement for Your Old Cassette Answering Machine
Review: I bought this economical model to replace an old PhoneMate model I got in 1988 and which went on the blink in 1993 due to the capstan drive for the message cassette having failed on me. Having this previous experience with PhoneMate and their likeable features induced me to seek a suitable replacement from the same company. This specific model appealed to me greatly and buying it from Amazon with their great prices and shipping made it a little more appealing to me. First, there's no audio tapes to worry about, so there's no degradation of your greeting(s) over a period of time as with constant use of audio cassettes, nor is there the operational problem of moving parts, as became the case with the old PhoneMate. Second, having the feasability to make your own 10 greeting messages is a nice feature although I opted to use the default PhoneMate machine greeting message, "Please Record Message", << beep >>. Still, it's nice to have a choice for when conditions dictate it. And the third feature that I found very nice to have is the storage area that you can transfer the message(s) to so you can "clear the que" in a manner of speaking. So is having that speakerphone option. On the down side, the short amount of recording time pales when you compare it to the 30 minutes on the old PhoneMate cassettes. Consumers will have to be patient waiting for the industry to develop longer recording capabilities in this digital techonology. I found the speaker qualities to be close to the old PhoneMates in terms of understanding what the machine was saying, so it was no significant improvements there. Overall, I'm glad I bought it. It's faster to operate compared to the old cassette versions from PhoneMate and there's no wear and tear. Ideally, it should last me a lot longer than the first PhoneMate I had. I'd recommend it to anyone who's familiar with the old answering machines, who's looking for a fine economical model and who can put up with a short amount of recording time.
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Summary: Easy to use, clear sound quality
Review: I have bought this answering machine for more than 6 months and I love it!!! The sound quality is good. Good price. Lots of useful features. It's so easy to use with big buttons and thier meaningful descriptions. I've read reviews and product descriptions. Its qualities and features reach all my expectation. Good choice.
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Summary: super product ,great features
Review: this casico TA-119 is a great answering machine , it has some really nice features. Like greeting file, so you can store several out going greetings, and speaker phone.a great phone for the kitchen. when your hands are full,you dont have to get whatever you're making all over the phone, you can use the speaker. also very good clarity.This is a great machine for this price.
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