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| Brand: Advanced American Telephones
Category: CE
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $9.13
You Save: $5.86 (39%)
New (23) Used (2) from $6.99
Rating:  41 reviews
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 3.4 x 8.9 x 3.8
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: 210
Model: 210
UPC: 650530930201
EAN: 0650530930201
ASIN: B000050FZP
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very nice phone, especially for the price April 26, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's a simple phone, solidly built, good sound volume and clarity, comfortable to hold between ear and shoulder, and a very useful(albeit a bit dim since it's line powered) backlit keypad. It does have a couple memory locations to store phone numbers, but I'm used to cordless phones with LCD that I can see the number being dialed, so I don't use the memories here...
I'd like to see the Mute feature work a bit differently. I'd make it a sliding switch, like the ringer and Tone/Pulse control, instead of a button. When you press the button to engage the Mute function, the earpiece gives a short beep to confirm. Press another time it gives a longer beep as the microphone is turned back on. But other than those beeps there's no visual confirmation that shows what the current mute status is, and you can't hear the beep really well, while you have the phone in your hand and pressing the button. So either a slider control, or make the backlight flashing intermittently to show the user that the phone's been muted, is what I'd suggest to the designer/engineer...
 Vertical mount March 28, 2006
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
Susposed to be capable of wall installation. Isn't. Handset will fall off if phone is more than one inch from upright.
 Good phone if it's actually working December 18, 2005
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have two. I was pleased with the first one for a year and a half, but now the ringer works only when it is in the mood to. I have tried reprogramming it and double-checked that the ringer is switched on. Some days it just won't ring. The second one, I picked up a few weeks ago. It would be great if that one would allow me to dial the number nine, especially since the one number I want to be able to dial quickly from any phone is 9-1-1. I am not happy. Also, sometimes when it's on touchtone, it will only dial via pulse, so when I tried to do telephone banking, I had to run to another phone. No amount of toggling back and forth will get it to switch over to touchtone.
I was suspicious about the quality of this phone when I noticed the tricky marketing ploy: the phone has the AT&T logo - from the old American Telephone & Telegraph from which we could expect better quality, but AT & T has licensed its logo out to "Advanced American Telephones." These "American" telephones are made in China likely under the sorts of working conditions that would explain the shoddiness. I miss the days of quality manufacturing.
BTW, when I went to request a return number from DynaDirect (the company that ships this product), I was not pleased that the form that needed to be filled out was not a secure form. It asked for way too much personal info not to be an https site. I can't return the phone since after a week I threw out the box only to then discover that I had not yet dialed a number that contained a nine in it.
Phone as described September 5, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The heavy base ensures that it is unlikely to be dislodged while talking on the handset. All the functions are on the handset, which is well lit, and they more than serve the purpose for a basic phone. I'm very satisfied with my purchases (I bought two at the same time based on the description provided with the phone).
The best single line phone design ever November 25, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've loved the trimline phone ever since I got my first phone more than 20 years ago. Then, the trimline was a real, Bell System, telephone. Although this phone is clearly not the same as the real Bell trimline phones, it still has the great, comfortable design and the dialpad in the handset, which makes it an excellent choice. I've compared several other trimline phones and this is the closest phone I could find to the original Bell phones.
Northwestern Bell also makes a trimline phone, but the quality and comfort are nowhere near this AT&T version.
If you read the other reviews, you will see that at least one review (dated November of 2004) says that this phone was discontinued. Yet, here we are in late November 2004, and its still around. I'm guessing (could be wrong here) that this phone will be around forever, even though AT&T no longer promotes it on their web-site.
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