AT&T 9371 900 MHz Cordless Speakerphone and Answering System with Caller ID (Espresso)

AT&T 9371 smartly combines speakerphone, digital answering machine and cordless handset functions with (optional) caller ID &/call waiting. After about a month of use and play, I think it's a terrific multi-function phone that should satisfy most consumers.

Setting up the phone base and the answering system is a quick and easy job. At minimum, you can set the date and time and let the simple default greeting take calls - always an option to one's own greeting. Remote access is possible for all the answering system functions, including turning the machine on or off. A wallet card displays all the remote access commands, but the system also has a complete audio help menu if you don't have the card handy.

First a bit of minor frustration as the handset must be charged for at least 16 continuous hours before initial use. So on day one, you must restrict all phone use and programming to the phone base and use the speakerphone option. Many of the smart functions (including the...Read more

Seldom you can find a phone with so many features in one
machine at a low price. Progamming and storing your phone directory is simple with instruction manual easy to
follow. However, an incoming call do not show the caller's name
of the person you program in your directory which is not sometimes helpful identifying the caller.
The answering machine has 3 mailboxes which you can assign to your callers which one to use for your convenience and easy retrieval. But one thing I found is the date stamp on the calls
is at the end of the message instead of the front which is rather
misleading when you have several messages.
I don't see an illuminated keypad as claimed on the Technical data but only few buttons on the base. It has only an
illuminated screen on the handset.
The range is excellent for this 900 mhz phone. You can still hear solid voice from accross the fence of your backyard and beyond.
It has LED display of...Read more

I've been on a search for a decent speakerphone, answering combo, with CID for a few weeks now and this unit was the 2nd stop on my search. Everything looked great on paper, even though I have no use for 3 mailboxes, I thought I'd give it a try and the price was quite attractive.

The first thing I noticed was that the CID display was hard to read because it isn't backlit, nor does it have any option to change the contrast. Sound quality on the handset was ok, although some people commented that I sounded muffled to them. The next thing I disliked was having to set the time on both the phone and the answerer, other phones allow you to only set it once, and even then it is updated automatically by the CID service. I then recorded my outgoing message and when playing it back I could barely hear it and it was badly garbled. I also found that recorded messages were badly garbled during playback as well. I've had a digital answering machine before this and never had a problem with...Read more