AT&T - 1740 Digital Answering Machine with Time/Day Stamp

I wanted an answer machine to avoid using the phone companies, and I didn't want to replace my 4 wireless phones. I've had this for nearly 2 months and it has worked fine. It is cheap in quality though and a bit funny. You can set the "day of the week" and the year but you can not set a date. I.E. You can set it as Monday at 1PM but you can't give it a date. Very strange but as I won't be going weeks without picking up my messages it doesn't matter to me. As for the feature that reads out the telephone number for incoming calls I found that annoying and turned the feature off. It is easier, quieter/more private, and nicer just to look at the caller ID.

I was disappointed with this answering machine. I had read a few dozen reviews which stated it was a great value but the sound quality from both my recorded outgoing message and the recorded incoming calls was awful, and it's no exaggeration to say I couldn't understand a word of either when I played-back. It was so bad that the outgoing message sounded like I recorded it with my head in an empty 5-gallon bucket. Not what I was looking for at all. The good news is that BB took it back and refunded my money on the spot, no questions asked. As it should be.

Answering machines can be hard to find unless they are attached to a cordless phone. This is the second one of this style from AT&T that I've owned. First one lasted about 10 years. I love the idea of being able to choose from many choices in setting this up. My favorite is having it announce the incoming number. For a very basic answering machine, I have found this to be one of the best.

It's hard to find an ordinary answering machine in the stores these days. They only seem to have the phone/answering machine combos now. So we were happy to find this one on the Best Buy web site. It was easy to set up, and works great so far. It was definitely worth getting for the price.

Audio is very clear, easy to scroll through messages, having Caller ID phone numbers recorded is very helpful (sometimes caller is not so precise with diction). I wish I could get one with three separate mailboxes that caller can choose from (press 1, or 2, or 3 to leave message).

I bought answering machine and it is not working.best buy would not help me set it up.i am almost blind.there is static on phone and no one can leave message.i am on fixed income.cannot pay 99.00 for help from best buy,just six miles from store.YOU ARE NOT BEST BUY.CATHERINE BLANKENSHIP

Even with cell phones and text messaging its still nice to be able put an answering machine in the landline. There aren't many from which to choose so we took our chances. This one was great. Easy to set up and easy to use. When you don't want to be constantly checking your ringing cellphone its nice to be able to use the landline to take care of business.

This item works great. I got it for my father who REFUSES to let go of his landline phone. Keep in mind folks....we're not too far away from landline phones going away completely, so if you need one of these...get it NOW!