AT&T 1739 Corded Digital Answering System, White by AT&T
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Digital camera reviews of AT&T 1739 Corded Digital Answering System, White
Digital camera Review: Did Not Work, PERIOD. Plugged It In and it is Dead.
Summary: 1 Stars
Our old AT&T answering machine past away after ten years of good service. Bought this one to replace it. Received it quickly from Amazon. Read the directions and plugged it in. The unit lit up but would not let me set it up as described in the manual. None of the buttons responded. So I gently unplugged it and plugged in the machine again. It never lit up again. It is dead. Used this new answering machine's power adaptor on the old machine and it saw that the power is working so it's not the adaptor. I know it is only $18 but it should work. I guess I'm lucky that it never worked from day one (or in this case, minute one) so that I can get a full refund (at least I hope I can) instead of dying after 3 months. Then you are really out of luck. This is the disappointing part about shopping on the internet. I prob would not have bought the unit at the store. It looks flimsy especially compared side to side w/my older sturdier and better looking AT&T unit. Buyer Beware.Digital camera Review: Digital Answering Machines Are Not Better Than Analog/Tape Answering Machines
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought the AT&T 1739 digital answering machine and returned it the same day that I recieved it. The AT&T 1739 was easy to setup and operate and has the same basic features of various other digital answering machines that I have owned and that friends have owned. I have experience with about 4 or 5 digital answering machines.
I own a small business. My biggest problem with the AT&T 1739 is that the call screening feature automatically adjust the volume up to a level that can be herd when a call is answered. When in a meeting and a call comes in the AT&T 1739 adjusts the volume level up so that everyone in the room can hear private incomming calls. The feature is not adjustable and you cannot turn it off. Everyone in the room can hear all incomming calls. The volume adjustment is useless as the machine overrides the volume setting to a audible level when a call comes in. When I adjust the volume level to the lowest level, I would like it to stay there until I decide to turn it up.
In general, digital answering machines have low sound quality and limited fexibility with respect to recording time and limited flexibility with respect to transferring recorded messages off of the machine for future reference.
With tape answering machines the tapes are removable and can be saved indefinetly by removing them and inserting a new tape. The cassettes can be played on any tape player. Cassette tapes are cheap, easy to find and provide great flexibility.
I bought a cassette tape answering machine (Panasonic KX-T5100) and it has all of the features and flexibility I require. They are hard to find new but I was able to find a refurbished one on ebay.
Digital answering machines are low quality and have limited flexibility. In the case of answering machines the older tape/analog machines are of higher quality and have more flexibility than the digital answering machines.
I am sure digital machines could be made with higher quality but with the telephone company answering service, the demand may not be great enough to force manufacturers to make quality answering machines. Before cancelling the phone companies answering service, the cost of the phone companies answering service was $10/month. I bought my answering machine for $50. Therefore, the machine will pay for itself in 5 months and I have full control over my messages.
Digital camera Review: Disappointed
Summary: 3 Stars
I just bought this unit after our old one died. The previous one would only let the call ring 4 times before it would answer it (this really meant that one had to answer in 3 rings). This drove me nuts for years having to run like a bullet to catch it before the 4th ring. I had wanted to get a unit that would ring more times this time around. The instructions said adjustable for 2 to 7 rings but it was lying. The ninny that designed it made it so it would ring 6 times until the first message was left, thereafter only four. (The other option was 4 rings the 1st time and 2 thereafter.) It's funny, I worked for Bell Telephone company (owned by AT&T) for 35 years and we were told to tell people to let a phone call ring for at least 10 times in case a person was not near a phone (or momentarily indisposed). I guess I should have bought a better unit and I would have if the technical information on the box had mentioned the number of rings in the data. I told the wife I was through running for the phone. And as the man used to say, "And dats de name of dat tune." Otherwise, I guess the thing would have gotten a 5 rating.Digital camera Review: Disappointing
Summary: 1 Stars
I guess "you get what you pay for!" This Answering maching was very inexpensive. Almost impossible to understand the messages. Unfortunately I waited too long to return it, kept thinking the problem might be the storms, with electrical outages we had in January, but I have given up, and now have ordered a much costlier one, with high hopes. I'll let you know. Sigh.Digital camera Review: Distored Sound Quality, Setup Button a Pain
Summary: 1 Stars
The setup button was a pain in the neck. Very difficult to operate initially. A couple other reviewers commented on how weird it is. I'm not sure exactly what went wrong because once you are able to input all the initial settings it does work normally subsequently. The volume adjustment buttons make a lot of unnecessary noise. It should instead be designed so the beeping goes from soft to loud depending on the volume setting you choose. Then came the absolute dealbreaker. I recorded my outgoing announcement into the microphone and during playback it sounded very distored. Tried to correct it by flipping the machine over and rerecording into what appears to be a microphone on the bottom of the machine but still heard a distored greeting. Incredible that a new digital product could actually be of a lower quality than the much older digital answering machines. Will return the product to Walmart.