Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: iuvax!uiucuxc!cmpfen!bob@uunet.uu.net (Bob Breum) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: PhoneMate Answering Machine Problem Message-ID: Date: 10 May 89 18:12:22 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Bob Breum Organization: Computer Fenestrations, Lake Monroe, Florida, USA Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 161, message 1 of 10 In article gonzalez@bbn.com writes: >I recently purchased a PhoneMate answering machine. Consumer Reports had >indicated that readers had complained of failures of machines that had been >"check-rated" (highly recommended). One of the problems they reported was >that callers would be cut off while still speaking. I am now excountering >this problem. With the machine in VOX (record-'til-caller-stops-talking) >mode, the caller is cut off after speaking for anywhere from 5 to 20 seconds. I have a PhoneMate 9750, their top-of-the-line two-line answering machine with a built-in telephone. It has not had any problems during the more than a year that I have used it. I would recommend it to anyone, although the built-in phone is pretty worthless; buy the similar model without the phone. Oh, there is one drawback to this unit: it uses very expensive lithium batteries which have failed at least twice already. -- Computer Fenestrations Bob Breum Post Office Box 151 {uiucuxc|hoptoad|petsd|ucf-cs}!peora!cmpfen!bob Lake Monroe, FL 32747 USA +1 407 322-3222 "C is the new BASIC"