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• Corded speakerphone with built-in digital answering machine
• Digital answering machine offers 19 minutes of recording
• Three one-touch memory buttons and 9 speed dial numbers
• Doesn't require batteries and operates even during power failure
• Caller ID/Call Waiting compatible
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 6.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 8.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 107 reviews |
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102 of 103 found the following review helpful:
 Pretty decent phoneMay 23, 2008
By J. Huang
I bought this phone to replace my cordless phones. I had to hard of a time hearing on my cordless phones (and I am not hard of hearing). This phone has great volume and volume control. It is durable and can be mounted on your wall or put on your counter. I did have to buy a longer phone cord so I could walk around. The speaker phone has really good volume and the people I have spoken with on speaker phone can hear me really well. The only draw back is that the caller ID does not light up so it is hard to see at night. Overall I am very happy with this purchase and pleasantly surprised by its quality.
80 of 81 found the following review helpful:
Memory GuardAug 02, 2008
By Chrismiss
This is a great little phone, and for the price -- well, it's unbeatable, and trust me, I compared a LOT of models.
But (there's always a but, isn't there?) the bad news is that although this phone has "Memory Guard," it's NOT the same as a battery backup. Even tho' the Amazon Product Description says "Power Failure Operation Memory Loss Protection (battery required)" there's no place to put batteries. You can get and make calls when the power is out, but the phone will not ring, so you need another corded phone that will ring to let you know you've got a call. The answering machine will not work during a power outage, and the clock needs to be reset (easy to do) if the power goes out for even a second. But the good news is you will NOT lose messages that came in before the power went out (or after it comes back on, although the time stamp for those calls will not be right unless the power went out for only a few seconds). You also will not lose stored numbers, your recorded announcement, and other settings.
The good news is it's got a lot of features not found on other phones in this price range, notably (for me, anyway) a mute button with indicator that you're in mute mode, volume control for the speakerphone, ability to dial out while in speakerphone mode (no need to take the handset off the hook), and an audible message alert.
I found this easy to set up, but maybe only because I had a cordless AT&T phone that worked much the same way, so I'm used to the procedures for setting it up.
63 of 65 found the following review helpful:
 Good, basic answering machine/phoneJul 30, 2008
By Kevin Carlson
This phone works as expected, although I have a minor complaint about usability. On most answering machines I've had, the "Listen to messages" button is large and easily identifiable.
On this phone, however, the large lighted button actually turns the answering function on and off.
You have to press the South quadrant of the ring surrounding this button to actually listen to messages (similar in use to a cell phone 4-way button.)
Not very intuitive...
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Good Price but Poor Audio QualityOct 12, 2008
By Dale Feinstein
For the money, this telephone/answering machine provides the features that you would expect in such a product. Call quality is excellent and speakerphone audio quality is good. I also like the fact that it does not require batteries to retain messages during a power failure.
However, I needed to return this unit for two reasons, both relating to the answering machine part of this product:
(1) If you choose to record a custom outgoing announcement, the audio quality is abysmal. No matter how many times I re-recorded the outgoing announcement, the pitch and volume were altered in such a way as to make me sound very tired or depressed. The answering machine changed the pitch of my voice to make it sound lower and made the volume of the first two seconds or so lower than the rest of the announcement. It altered my voice so much that it did not sound like me.
(2) The volume change described above also affected incoming messages. The first two seconds or so of an incoming message sounded lower in volume than the rest of the message.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Great Phone-Help for Handset FallingNov 21, 2008
By hardy
I recently purchased the 1856 and experienced the same problem the reviewer did as listed in the comment, "warning: when you mount it on the wall, the handset slides off".
Solution: the small plastic piece (less than 1"x1") located just under the handset ear piece slips out. When you slip it out, there is a small hook on one end. Turn the plastic piece around, insert it back into the phone base, and your handset will stay securely in place, even mounted on the wall.
The phone works great!
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