Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ut-emx!rick@cs.utexas.edu (Rick Watson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: PhoneMate Answering Machine Problem Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 16:37:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 20 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 163, message 2 of 9 > 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. While the 9750 has some nice features, it has a very low-security touch-tone remote operation code. Worse, I can always tell when someone else's 9750 answers because of a distinctive answering characteristic. Also, the touch-tone decoder on my 9750 has drifted and had to be re-adjusted. I now supect that the timer that decides a caller didn't leave a message has drifted becuase it won't save a very short message. I wouldn't recommend it. --Rick