AT&T 993 Corded Phone, Black, 1 Handset
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Customer Review: Great home office phone
Summary: 5 Stars
I've telecommuted for ~7 years now and have a tendency to go through phones. Most home phones just aren't designed to be talked on for 8 hours non-stop (no exaggeration). I have a great cordless phone with a bluetooth headset, but it just can't make it through a full day of 2-3 hour conference calls or 8 hour phone sessions...however this speaker phone works great. The audio quality is as good as any you can buy for home use, the volume goes high enough to deafen you...and the wired headset is great.
This phone has given me further reasons to never go to my actual company provided office, having a functional hands free is essential and my employer is too cheap to buy one to go with the $800 desk phone that I never use.
Customer Review: It has problems . . . who makes good phones anymore?
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this phone for a home business. Callers cannot hear me when I am on speakerphone (although I can hear them fine). The backlighting of the display (where you see caller ID, etc) stopped working early on in the life of the product, and the display itself is muddied and impossible to read without that backlighting. I called AT&T and getting the phone repaired or replaced would have been such a hassle that I never went through with it. They put up a lot of barriers to getting it replaced--the biggest being I would have to send it in on my own dime and that I would have to be without the phone as they had to get the old one back before sending out a new one. That's not how it should work!Customer Review: Disappointing product from AT&T
Summary: 2 Stars
Very disappointed in this product. I have had multiple AT&T and Lucent Technology phones over the years, with 2-line phones and tape and digital answering systems. This product is misleading -- description says "2-line corded speakerphone with digital answering". Not until I received it did I realize digital answering only worked if you subscribe to this from the phone company, which I don't want for these 2 lines. Menu's are also very difficult to scroll thru/use -- not ease of use like other phones. I agree with all the negatives on the other postings -- not being able to adjust the volume control, not easy to view caller ID, etc etc etc
I am sending this one back.
Customer Review: Best phone....
Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased 3 phones, the at&t 993, a panasonic kxts600, and panasonic kxts105 which has no caller id. They were all rated quite good, and are somewhat similar desk phones. The 993 comes with a dc power supply, and has 2 lines. The panasonics are battery powered. In my opinion the 993 is in a whole different league than the panasonics, as well as other phones that I own. It has far better sound quality, much faster operation, it has a larger easier to read screen, and it is a bit heavier so it just feels better. It does not have that annoying hollow sound that you get with the cheaper units. It is by far my phone of choice, a good value, and I just ordered another. Good day.Customer Review: DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT POWER!
Summary: 2 Stars
This phone is marketed as though it works when the power goes out and it will, unless the battery dies! Which will after no more than 24hrs even if the battery is brand new. At that point the phone will not even ring.
From the manual: "NOTE: If you do not have a spare battery (optional) already installed during a power failure, you will only be able to make and receive calls from the handset. The ringer will not work until the power is restored."
This is also the case if the battery goes dead without you noticing, or after an extended power outage. In other words, this is not suitable as a backup/emergency phone. Just keep this in mind before selecting!