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Summary: Garbage - DO NOT BUY
Review: We have had 2 sets of these phones, one version with the answering machine. They both worked horribly. After about 2 months use, they don't hold a charge. Eventually, they became useless, not charging at all. We replacd them and he new ones did the exact same thing. The version we had with the answering machine would record an outgoing message that could barely be understood. We erased our personal message and left the default message on because at least it was understandable albiet distorted. DO NOT BUY THESE PHONES! You will regret it as we do.
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Summary: Adam
Review: This is an awful phone. In addition to its strange design, it's very hard and confusing to use, and its range is practically nonexistent. The phone cuts out very close to the base. Do not buy this phone.
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Summary: AWFUL!!!!
Review: These are the worst phones we have ever owned. Before the first one completely stopped working, it would cut off after two minutes of use, even on a fully charged battery. The second one has about a 6 minute life left to it. The phones have no reception outside of the house. Do not buy!!!
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Summary: DO NOT buy this phone
Review: You may be tempted to read some of the positive reviews and give this phone the benefit of the doubt, but please don't do that to yourself. The battery in this phone is the type that requires the phone to be dead before you charge the handset. This means that you cannot place the handset into the charger until the battery is dead. Heaven forbid you forget because you will eventually kill the battery. You can use the 2nd handset for your calls. However, if the 2nd one dies, you are out of luck. If you take it out of the charger before it is fully charged, the battery has a memory and you will never get a full charge again, only the amount you partially charged it. Multiply this several times and you eventually have to buy a new battery and repeat the cycle over again. One of the selling points for us on this phone was the ability to tell if you have a voice mail (we use the phone compnay voice mail). I think it showed an indicator once in the year we have owned the phone but never again. On the positive side, the reception is very clear and no noise whatsoever and caller ID works fine. The positives just do not out weigh the totally negative features. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT but this phone!
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Summary: Worst phone ever: Batteries drain in 2 days of stand-bye
Review: Worst phone ever: batteries drain so fast I have to always leave it in the charger, defeating the purpose of a cordless phone on the coffee table. Menus are so difficult it takes a PHD to do a 'redial' Overall, 0 stars out of 5.
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Summary: Junk
Review: Few cordless phones I've owned have been as poorly designed and manufactured as the AT&T 2230 dual handset. I'm disappointed in the "touch" of these phones. They feel cheap, have small cheep buttons, a cheep small earpiece that doesn't fit my ear and sounds distorted. People frequently complained that when I used this phone they could not hear me well. The phone would randomly start whining about its connection or something. I could never figure out what it wanted. I replaced the batteries but it made no difference. How complicated is it supposed to be to use a phone? I would never consider buying this phone again. If you find a good portable phone please review it in Amazon, I still need to buy more phones. If Sony still made the SPP-ER101 I buy more of them. Mine is seven years old and it's still working great! Does anyone understand why these companies stop making good phones and flood the market with 50 models of garbage?
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Summary: Does not hold charge
Review: Found handsets constantly needing to be recharged. Could not leave handset off base at all. Phones always died in middle of conversations
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Summary: Worst Phone Ever Made
Review: This is possibly the worst phone I have ever owned. I have returned it once and it worked for a few months, just long enough for the warranty to run out. I am still having the same initial problems. One handset always claims to be "out of service" and the other set is almost always dead. I never have a phone when I need one. It is also very fuzzy and difficult to use. Don't waste your money!
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Summary: skip this phone
Review: I just returned this phone to where I bought it. I replaced it once, assuming it was a bad batch but the second exhibited the same problems as the 1st:
There is a definate medium/high pitch 'buzzing' sound in the handset - clearly hearable in the background. The volume of the buzz does not change when changing the volume of the handset but it is annoying.
Interestingly when using a headset the buzz is not their. Sounds to me that the transmitter is leaking signal into the speaker (maybe badly designed speaker wire path etc...).
I replaced this phone with a Olympia OL 2400 (must be the same logic chip - menus are 90% identical - buttons - while located in different places are 100% identical). The Olympia is smaller, has a louder ring and does have a much much less noticable 'buzz'.
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Summary: Terrible Phones
Review: I really overpaid for these lousy phones. There's static when you're listening and when you speak, there's an echo. It was really annoying for me and the person I was tlaking to. GO WITH 900 MHZ!!!
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