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ATT 1817 Phone with Tapeless Digital Answering System | 
 enlarge | Brand: ATT
Category: CE
List Price: $59.47
Buy Used: $49.95
You Save: $9.52 (16%)
Rating:  10 reviews
Color: Gray
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 7.3 x 3.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 90574
Model: 1817
UPC: 650530905742
EAN: 0650530905742
ASIN: B00000JB7U
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Tapeless digital answering system | | • | Time/day stamp | | • | Nine-number memory dialing | | • | MessageGuard memory for power failures | | • | Remote access |
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Product Description
ATT 1817 tapeless digital answering system telephone provides you with the benefits of digital operation. Tapeless digital technology provides instant playback, selective save/delete, skip/repeat and scanning of messages. The system announces the time and day stamp at start of each incoming message before playback. Memo lets you record important messages for yourself or others. Call screening/intercept allows you to listen to incoming calls before answering them. Remote access lets you retrieve messages away from home.This telephone always stores in memory the last number manually dialed (up to 24 digits), the number remains in memory until you dial another number. This telephone can store up to nine numbers (up to 18 digits each). You can keep a record of stored numbers on the directory card. Many features of this answering system can be used remotely from a touch-tone phone, most of them can be accessed only after you enter a remote access code. This telephone is designed for use as either a desk or wall phone, and it is compatible with inductively coupled hearing aids.
Amazon.com Review
Why clutter your desk with a telephone and an answering system when you can have both in one package? The ATT 1817 provides an all-digital answering system with time/day stamp and remote control features to make checking your messages easy whether you're at home or on the road.p You control the 1817 with its 13 front-mounted buttons and three switches. There is also a single-character LED display and one LED status indicator. The slim handset is comfortable and easy to hold; the buttons are well positioned and accessible, and the feature set is ideally suited for remote operation of the answering system.p We had to consult the instructions to set the clock, the number of rings, the remote access code, and the outgoing message (which was cumbersome even with the instructions). Note that the instructions don't explain how to reset the machine to its original preprogrammed outgoing message, but we found it after lengthy trial and error. We were able to program the memory dialing intuitively.p BPros/Bbr UL liStylish liFriendly, professional automated voice prompts liRecords up to 59 messages /UL P BCons/Bbr UL LIFour-minute recording limit per message LINo mute button /UL
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Audio is not good and it's hard to program April 11, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've had a LOT of phone machines and this one is OK, but the audio is really marginal. It's also a bear to program. I always have to find the manual to do the simplest things. It also loses the time - can't they keep the clock alive from phone line power in case you get a glitch in the power line ? I guess not....br /br /You can do better than buy this thing.
 Useless April 5, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My less than a year old ATT 1817 has earned my complete mistrust. Some important messages became mysteriously inaccessible on it while I was making arrangements to have some major surgery. More have disappeared since. pI will replace this ...as soon as I can find a reliable answering machine. pSave your money for an appliance that will do the job.
Just OK August 10, 2001
I experience a good deal of static while using the telephone. Plus, even with the volume all the way up, I miss parts of the message unless the person leaving the message talks loudly enough so the machine records all of it.
Just a little sticky July 20, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The only problem I had with the phone was the sticking of the #4 but after playing with it the #4 works fine now. All the other features work great. Since this phone is used in my office, I would recommend it to anyone for the home or the office.pThe price of the phone is unbeatable.
 Reconnect with life, freedom, and fun y April 28, 2001
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
Every so often, I would actually remember to return a call, ask a question, or just say Hi, I'm thinking about you to my stepdaughter Gina. Distance does not really make the heart grow fonder sometimes it simply distances us from our loved ones. One day, after trying to reach her on ten different occasions I had this answering machine shipped to her as a gift. pThis changed her thoughts from You never return my calls to Hi. You called!pThe device is simple, easy to install, and does not require the plethora of tapes that older systems did. You do have to record your own greeting unless you mind the digital mechanical voice. It is not a bad voice, particularly if you like the futuristic machines R2D2 and C3PO (Star Wars androids).pI have noticed that some of the reviewers for this particular machine did not have quite the success that I have had. Unfortunately in manufacturing there are times when a lemon squeezes through quality control, but they can be returned. However, Gina received her gift at the end of February, and loves it. She has never had a problem. She knows the day and time a call came through, has programmed the nine number memory module for speed dial, and, since we live in the land of rolling blackouts -- California, has used the Message Guard feature. pThis answering machine can also be used to avoid unwanted calls, because you hear what the caller is saying. Personally, I hate to pick up the phone and have a digital direct marketing service determined to sell me some product that I absolutely have to have even though I did not know about it before they called. These are the calls that are happily limited to no more than four-minutes, along with all others. I have discovered that 240 seconds is enough for any friend to leave their name, number, and a brief message. This also means that if I by some horrible quirk of fate I get 59 messages, I can just pull the plug and delete the entire data base . . . then embarrassingly state that my answering machine lost calls. Who has not wanted to do that?pYou can feel as if your are riding Pegasus through the sky, and when you return to earth you can decide which calls you want to return. pThis answering machine is five stars for:p*conveniencep*ease of installationp*streamlined digital answering machine and telephonep*call monitoring abilityp*excellent price
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