AT&T 1718 Digital Answering System (Wind Chill White) here
AT&T 1718 Digital Answering System (Wind Chill White) hereWhat the other folks have said so far is correct! However, here’s some new downfalls of this machine nobody has seemed to mention yet: “REPEAT” doesn’t mean “Repeat”. It means “GO TO PREVIOUS MESSAGE”. ie. If you’re listening to a message and someone is giving you their phone number and you missed a digit, you should be able to hit repeat and listen to the message again. NOPE! Instead it takes you back to the PREVIOUS Message that you don’t need to hear again. In the manual, it says this will only happen if the message is giving the time/day stamp part of the message, but this is incorrect. IT HAPPENS ALWAYS! I called AT&T; Customer Service on this issue and they could care less. “TIME/DAY STAMP”: You can’t shut off. Every other feature on this machine you can turn on or off except this one. Most of the time, I could care less if they called at 10am or 2pm, I still need to return the call. Besides, most people end up saying what time they called anyway as habit. Why do I need to hear the time twice? NO NUMBER OF MESSAGES DISPLAY: When you come home, they want to you to count the number of times the light blinks. If it blinks 9 times, I have 9 messages. That’s exactly what I want to do when I come home from a hard day’s work is count blinks on my answering machine every day. Darn it, if there’s 5 new messages, just spell it out for me on a LCD display. CALLER I.D. PHONE NUMBER ANNOUNCE: It could be a great feature. But I like to keep my number of rings on 2 before it answers. The problem is that then the machine won’t read you the number calling. The manual is incorrect. It says that the number will be read no matter what, but that the rings would change to 3 to allow enough time to read the number. Again, this is incorrect. I [didn’t pay very much] . You get what you pay for! Shame on me!!
