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- From: lusol@Lehigh.EDU (Stephen O. Lidie)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Answering machines that don't record
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.162103.14722@Lehigh.EDU>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:21:03 GMT
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- In article <34705@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU> jcao@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Jingbin Cao) writes:
- >My GE 2-9860 answering machine died after 5 years of service. Thinking
- >other brands may be more durable, I bought a Phone Mate (don't have
- >the model # now) from J&R Music World for about $50 including tax. I
- >liked it initially for its digital out-going message and conversation
- >recording capability. Then I realize it uses the annoying
- >voice-activated recording, meaning it will stop recording after 3
- >seconds of relative silence.
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- >
- >Now I need to exchange the machine again. Since J&R Music World does
- >not carry GE machines, and I am hooked by their no-refund policy, the
- >remaining choices are AT&T, Sony, and probably ITT. Salesmen there are
- >not helpful, so I'd like to ask if anyone knows which brand does a
- >decent job and does not hang up prematurely? From what I understand,
- >some machines have problem detecting hangup by the caller and have to
- >resort to voice activated recording or a one minute time-out.
- >Apparently, Phone Mate and Panasonic fall into this category.
- >
-
- I just got an AT&T digital beast... timeout is 8 seconds. This is my first
- answering machine, but I didn't want to hassle with tapes. Records up to 7
- minutes and/or 50 messages - seem fine for home use. You can play/delete
- messages randomly, of course. model=1339?, I think. Remote access and all
- that stuff too...
-
- SOL
-