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Don't buy this telephone answering machine unless you want to be let down as we were. In the medium price range, and produced by BT, we did not expect any trouble but how wrong we were. True, it has some good functions including 11 minutes of digital recording, message indicator, memo facility, remote facility, volume control, 10 memories and so on. However, we bought it in October and by December it was behaving very bizarrely indeed. To our great inconvenience, it failed to record important incoming messages and gave no indication that there had been any. Our first indication of any problem was when I phoned in myself using the remote function ...  Read the complete review

The Amstrad Emailer is a fully featured communications suite for £80. For your £80 you get a great deal of features packed into a great looking machine. It's a normal telephone, with a built in digital answering machine, the ability to send and receive emails, the ability to send faxes and also view/listen to pictures/sound sent as attatchments. The Emailer has built in memory which is used to store everything, voice messages, emails etc so this can be filled up very quickly indeed. However, the Emailer's memory is expandable by buying Smartmedia Cards (which are commonly used as digital camera "film" and can be bought from electronics ...  Read the complete review

After my own BT Freestyle cordless telphone/answermachine started picking up radio stations (namely BBC Radio Scotland) I decided it was time to choose a new one. I searched for a cheap Dect with answer machine and found this model on th Argos site. www.argos.co.uk I reserved it online and picked it up in my nearest store. Well for only £69.99 i have never been so pleased with a product offering so much value for money. Not only is it crystal clear reception it has a phonebook just like a mobile and has a choice of 5 ring tones also. The batteries last for ages and you can replace them with any old rechargeable ones too, unlike my Bt model which ...  Read the complete review

After our disaster with the audioline 925 telephone/answering system, we got this Binatone recently. It is another digital system, but with the pleasing benefit that the battery back up actually works! There is a 10 number memory, which is easy to programme, plus all the usual features of a modern telephone such as last number redial and recall. The answering system part is easy to use, it has a green led which flashes if there are any messages, and the digital display tells you how many messages there are. You can programme it to tell you the day and time the message was left, which it does at the start. It is easy to delete the messages, nothing complex, just hit ...  Read the complete review

What a gimmick! we bought this answerphone after our old one gave up on us, and chose this one for a laugh really. We particularly wanted an answerphone but this one looked so cool we had to have it. The answerphone is really easy to set up and its groovy screen shows you when your messages came in. It doesnt save the message when someone hangs up which is good coz i hate listening to hang ups. Sound quality is good and not sure how many messages it holds but we've had quite a few on there. It has two keyboards for some pointless reason, and the one on the phone seems to be there for lazy so-and-so's like me, so we can just ...  Read the complete review