AT&T - CLP99587 Connect to Cell DECT 6.0 Expandable Cordless Phone System with Digital Answering System and Smart Call Blocker - Metallic Blue

First off, this is not a bad phone. Each handset looks nice, is comfortable to hold, has a large easy to read display, and the buttons feel good. I would have preferred a bit of rubber around the handset to make it easier to grip, unfortunately the handset is all plastic. The voice quality is pretty good. Easy to switch to speaker phone on the handset by pushing a button. The base unit is nice, has a large easy to read display. The speaker phone on the base unit is very good, as the base unit plugs directly to the wall the sound quality heard by others is exceptional. The phone system has an intercom feature. This allows direct communications from one handset to another. Some will find this feature useful. I prefer the good old fashioned way of just yelling across the house. The phone system also allows connection to two cell phones via bluetooth. So you can make cell phone calls directly from the phone. Again, I did not find this feature useful, as I have no interest in connecting my cell phone to this unit. So, why did I give this phone 3 out of 5 stars if the phone is overall pretty good. Well, the reason I bought this phone is because it has Smart Call Blocker. Unfortunately, I found Smart Call Blocker to be inconsistent. On a regular day I get up to 10 telemarketers or robocalls calling my home phone. I have Xfinity as my home phone provider and Nomorobo which is a service that reduces the number of calls. Anyways, I found that the Smart Call Blocker feature did not work consistently. Normally, when an Uncategorized call comes in the base unit lights up with a message that the call is being screened with Smart Call Blocker. Only when the caller presses the # key does the call go through. What I found is that Smart Call Blocker would simply not switch on for some calls. I tested this for about 4 weeks, and I estimate that about 10% of the calls were just let through. I contacted AT&T regarding this problem and they told me that the caller is probably pressing the # key before the base unit lights up and thats why the call seems to go right through. But, on those occasions I asked the caller if they heard any kind of screening message and they said no. Fortunately, the phone does have a feature to Block All Uncategorized calls. I have spent a week setting up a list of all phone numbers that might want to call me; friends, family, home security, etc. But, I really didn't want to resort to the Block All feature because now I am worried that I might miss an important call. In summary, overall a good phone system. Has a Block All Uncategorized calls feature that works well. Unfortunately, if you are buying this phone for the AT&T Smart Call Blocker feature, don't bother. It doesn't work properly. P.S. If an AT&T rep is reading this... On your next model phone, please allow people to make customized messages when using the Smart Call Blocker or Block All features. As is stands now, people can only make a customized message for the Answering System. I really would of liked to record my own outgoing message when blocking a call. - Thanks

Awesome phone! I know you want to hear a more in-depth review, however, I'm just going to cover the three big things that I bought this phone for. Number one, my old phones were outdated by about seven years and these new Robo calls have been increasingly annoying. Immediately after set up The Robo calls completely stopped. The first thing I was concerned about was a somewhat lengthy call process for Friends... I thought it would be bad but it wasn't at all. When you first set the phone up and give your home phone a call from your cell phone. The phone system will then ask you to state your name followed by hitting a certain key .. Once you do that The home phone rings and you hear the persons name that was recorded and you have a choice- you can just hit number one and answer the phone requiring them to keep going through security for future calls, or number two which allows this user to call directly through as if it were a normal phone because you know the person. Of course there's a way to permanently block too. The second thing was clarity and range. This system blew away my older phones hands-down my older phones were the 2.4 to 5.8 GHz phones. Lastly, I bought this model specifically so that my cell phone can ring through my home phone and so I can make outgoing calls from my home phone that's connected to my cell phone. Add in that I now have five models spreads around the house I don't miss any more phone calls, five stars love it. Oh one more nice thing, there's a walkie-talkie type button on the side and if you hold it down it will connect to the other four receivers and if I talk into it and asking for help any room that has a phone in it and usually the rooms next to it can hear it so it's like a loudspeaker .

My wife and I still have a traditional phone line along with our cell phones. Personally I would love to give it up but it happens to also be a second means of communication for our home security. In the past few years the robocalls and solicitors have become unbearable. The do not call list is a joke. Things have become so aggravating that we had our old answering system pick up on the second ring and turned the ringers off on all of the phones. Well, I finally had enough and decided to fight back. I purchased this system and brought it home and got it installed. The setup was fairly easy and within thirty minutes I had already programmed both of our cellular phones and downloaded our contact list to the directory. The rest of the various numbers that we needed were added manually. Immediately the system went to work and for the rest of the day we did not hear the phone ring one single time where as the Saturday prior we had probably a dozen calls throughout the day. Finally peace and quiet! The five handsets are a nice touch and we have them located in various rooms throughout the house. The push to talk paging feature will come in handy for communicating with the wife when she is upstairs. Also the voice button on the side can be used to control Siri on my IPhone when it is in another room. This comes in handy for making voice activated calls or even checking the weather for that matter as long as I am within range of hearing Siri reply on my phone speaker. Another nice feature is the fact that the base can handle two separate Bluetooth phone connections at once. The bottom line? This is a great phone system and I would not hesitate to recommend it!

1. The 10 ring tone options are not good. It allows Bluetooth connection to smartphones, why not allow for an optional custom ringtone from cell phone? 2. Speaking of connection to smartphone, the claim made is you can download the smartphone contacts to this system. While that is technically true, the impression is those contacts will be included into the Allow List that bypasses Screening, but that is not true. Someone missed the boat by not making that work as implied, especially if ATT is the carrier for the smartphone. 3. Why do you have to scroll through every contact starting with number 1? Not even the option to jump ahead to different letter for a contact by selecting A through Z first? 4. I've only had the phone installed today. So far the range, sound quality, screening, and other features seem decent but are not WOW! Could be SO much better. Maybe the above comments are not 100% due to being new user...but shouldn't a new user find it easy to do these things if they are available? It is 2018, these phones should be far smarter than this for $120. My $100 smartphone from 10 years ago had better programming, not sure why a landline has to be so far behind the smart curve.

I have to say, these are great phones that have an excellent range and good sound quality. The addition of smart screening made our lives so much less stressful. We used to get tons of telemarketing calls every day, but now we never hear from anyone. You have to check your caller ID every now and then to make sure you didn't miss an important call, but for the most part, the feature does its job. My complaint about the screening process is, it'll light the phone up when screening is in process, but it won't show you the caller ID, which is dumb. Other than that, the feature is awesome. The downfall, is the speakerphone. It's absolute crap, sad that it is an AT&T phone, a company that should know all about phones. I can hear the caller fine and dandy on speakerphone, but I always have to be right up at the mic for them to even hear me. I've tried multiple phones out of the 5 set and they all perform the same way. For that, the device gets 3 out of 5 stars. If they fix the speakerphone option, then it would easily be 5/5. If you find it on cheap deal and don't really use speakerphone; buy it!

So far this AT&T cordless phone system has worked great. Bought it because it allowed me to connect to not only my land line but also I could pair my cell phone to it so I could answer either remotely from anywhere in the house. No more having to carry my cell phone everywhere. The phones sound good and I have asked others how they sound from their end and everyone says they sound great. Battery life on the handsets have been excellent. I only have a few small gripes, which caused me to only give 4 stars. The handsets are rather narrow, so they do get a bit uncomfortable in the hand during long calls. The playback volume on the answering machine could be a bit louder. At max volume I need to stand pretty close to the machine to clearly hear the messages. Lastly, when I paired my cell phone contact list to the system, certain contacts did not get added for some reason. It appears to be random and I tried to pair the contact list 3 times and it still left some contacts off. I have not been able to figure out how to add those contacts manually yet. If anyone has found a fix for this please post it.

I'll just get my gripes out of the way. I don't like that the answering machine doesn't beep or give you any kind of audible indication that you have a message waiting. It's not a deal-breaker for me, but it might be for someone else. Another thing I don't really care for is the caller ID announcement isn't very loud, takes too long to start announcing and so very often mispronounces names. One more thing is the buttons are almost flush with the front of the phone, so you really kind of have to focus on the position of your fingers when you're typing in a phone number, otherwise, you might press a different number. This might be an issue for someone with large fingers. None of these gripes really make me regret the purchase, but it's enough to dock a star in my rating. Otherwise, I'm very satisfied with the phones, especially all the extra cradles. The sound on the headsets are clear and I no longer have sound issues like with my previous phone.

We have had this set of phones for over a week now. We bought for the call blocking features. And that works fine. The BIG disappointment - and really is important for us - that the sysyem has no blinking indicator when there is a voice mail message. It just day "Voice Mail Message" on the unlighted screen - both on the base unit and the handsets. I've never seen an answering machine of any kind that doesn't have a flashing light - until now. And that was enough for me to deduct TWO stars. I have no idea why they left it off. It's too late for us to return the system So if it's important to you to know if you have a voice mail message waiting be aware that you will have to pick up the phone to see if there is one. Love the phone otherwise but the lack of flashing indicator is a "dealbreaker" in my opinion