Rating: 
Summary: Stay away from this one...
Review: I bought this machine about a year ago and have not been satisfied since. The sound quality (as others have mentioned) is horrible. The three mailboxes are nice, but callers can never figure out how to get to the right box...even I can't...you have to push * or # or something then the number of the box, and only while the message is being played. Talk about badly designed. Sony was great and replaced the unit when we complained about sound quality, but the new one they sent was just as bad. I don't have any other suggestions, since I haven't found a satisfactory answering machine yet. (Oh, and new Sony machines...same problem)
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Summary: Only answers when it feels like it
Review: I bought this machine at a local store, hooked it up and noticed right away that the sound quality was horrible. Once it was hooked up, I noticed that the number of messages that we recieved dropped to practically zero. After about 10 days (and 2 messages during that 10 day period), I confirmed that someone thought they left a message on my machine but there was no message on the machine. I took it back to the store where I bought it, and am currently looking for another machine.
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Summary: The most annoying answering machine ever
Review: I don't know why the others rated it so poorly because of the sound, because the one I just bought works perfect and is very clear. It is an excellent answering machine. It has all the features anyone can possibly want. You can check messages from a remote location, add in a password for privacy, and have 3 different mailboxes for different members of the family. Its it's simple to use and has Sony quality. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Awesome answering machine!
Review: I don't know why the others rated it so poorly because of the sound, because the one I just bought works perfect and is very clear. It is an excellent answering machine. It has all the features anyone can possibly want. You can check messages from a remote location, add in a password for privacy, and have 3 different mailboxes for different members of the family. Its it's simple to use and has Sony quality. Highly recommended!
Rating: 
Summary: Decent Machine
Review: I got an early digital answering machine from AT&T (when they really were built by AT&T) when they first came out. I think the Sony is the fifth one I have owned. Every machine I have bought since has gotten junkier. The last one my wife bought was a Conair (that's the one the store carried). That lasted less than a year.So I did an search for Sony and bought this. The Sony quality is better than the last two I have owned. It was easy to program and the voice quality isn't any worse than the previous ones that I have had. Digital answering machines are just junky now. This one seems OK.
Rating:
Summary: Decent Machine
Review: I got an early digital answering machine from AT&T (when they really were built by AT&T) when they first came out. I think the Sony is the fifth one I have owned. Every machine I have bought since has gotten junkier. The last one my wife bought was a Conair (that's the one the store carried). That lasted less than a year. So I did an search for Sony and bought this. The Sony quality is better than the last two I have owned. It was easy to program and the voice quality isn't any worse than the previous ones that I have had. Digital answering machines are just junky now. This one seems OK.
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Summary: Not Typical of Sony
Review: I got as far as recording the OGM and when the machine played my voice back - I put it back in the box and returned it. The playback is far from true to life. Do not buy this product. Typically - I only buy Sony - but i will make this one exception to the rule.
Rating: 
Summary: Ok, but not great
Review: I got this about a year ago, needing to loan my better
AT&T box to my inlaws. This works "ok" for simply getting messages, when I'm in
the house. I don't like it for other things. No battery backup. Settings lost with power outage, including
any set id for retrieving messages. Time lost. But outgoing
message, or saved messages appear ok. I'm finally looking to replace it because I can't reliably
retrieve messages calling in. Either the id's wiped, the
id is "invalid" (even if it isn't), or the last time I tried
it didn't even recognize that I was using an id to say it
was incorrect. Very frustrating, only sometimes works. Why can't anyone make a decent machine? I'm noticing very
unreliable machines in these reviews. My old one was
quite usable. This one is difficult, and requires the
manual to set anything... 8-{
Rating:
Summary: Ok, but not great
Review: I got this about a year ago, needing to loan my better
AT&T box to my inlaws. This works "ok" for simply getting messages, when I'm in
the house. I don't like it for other things. No battery backup. Settings lost with power outage, including
any set id for retrieving messages. Time lost. But outgoing
message, or saved messages appear ok. I'm finally looking to replace it because I can't reliably
retrieve messages calling in. Either the id's wiped, the
id is "invalid" (even if it isn't), or the last time I tried
it didn't even recognize that I was using an id to say it
was incorrect. Very frustrating, only sometimes works. Why can't anyone make a decent machine? I'm noticing very
unreliable machines in these reviews. My old one was
quite usable. This one is difficult, and requires the
manual to set anything... 8-{
Rating:
Summary: Not very reliable
Review: I have had this answering machine 3 months and now it answers the phone only when it wants to. It sometimes works right, when it does its a good machine. Sony is looking at it now to try and repair it, cant be a good seller, the Sony service center never new they made answering machines. Sound quality is ok, could be better.
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