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

Comment: this thing probably isn't worth it, even for this small price. sound quality is middlish, the caller ID screen went out within a year, it's IMPOSSIBLE to figure out what all the buttons do -- I mean AT&T, c'mon, put a little effort in DESIGN! really, simple things like setting the time and changing your outgoing message are really hard. luckily amazon has a link to the product manual, or I would have thrown it away a long time ago.

Comment: I've had this phone a little over a year, and now the LCD is starting to miss some of the numbers/letters. If I want to write a number from someone, forget it, its illegible. The amount of room on the voice list is great, the audio on the outgoing voicemail message is a little fussy. However, the incoming messages are very clear. I found that it losses time, so the clock on the phonebase has to be reset constantly which is an annoyance. I think I will try Panasonic or Sony on my next go round.

Comment: It sounded garbled and staticky when using the speakerphone and the caller id lcd screen broke. It is unreadable as well. Didn't last long.

Comment: I bought this phone to replace my six year old Panasonic digital machine/phone combo that had begun to act flaky. I hoped that I would also get better sound quality with messages since computer memory and processing power have gotten much cheaper since 1998. Unfortunately the messages on this machine are worse than my old Panasonic, which weren't great to begin with. I also was annoyed by the feature that plays back the date, time, number of messages, etc. before it will play your messages: my old phone does this but the AT&T speaks v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y so you have to wait until it finishes its spiel before you can hear your messages (even if it's an old message). The sound quality of phone calls themselves are fine. I didn't try any other features because the message quality was poor enough that I'm returning it. Fortunately Amazon makes that easy and painless -- go Amazon!

Comment: I loved this phone. I loved it so much I've purchaced 2 of them. Now I'll admit, I'm rough on phones, but both managed to become unusable within one year of purchace. That is really my only gripe.

Now the good stuff. The design is good. I like the phone, the number of mailboxes, the answering system was great. The caller ID was a tad slow, but not any more than my other caller ids. Overall it was a good phone, but not meant for long term hard heavy usage.