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AT&T 1739 - Corded Digital Answering System | 
 enlarge | Brand: AT&T
Category: CE
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  17 reviews
Color: White
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 2.8 x 7
MPN: 1739
Model: 1739
UPC: 650530013447
EAN: 0650530013447
ASIN: B000VWJ210
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Excellent Sound Quality | | • | Message Counter | | • | 40 Minutes of Digital Recording Time | | • | Remote Access with Toll Saver | | • | Message Guard Memory For Power Failure |
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Product Description
There's no contest here. AT&T makes the best home phone answering machines. If you're seeking an answer machine that stands on its own, with no phone included, prepare for top message-taking service. It's simple, easy, and the most powerful home answering machine around. Time/day stamp Remote access Toll saver Call screening/intercept Number announce (requires caller ID service) Variable speed playback Memory monitor Memo Volume control Maximum 3 minute outgoing message announcement Audible message alert - When you come home the machine beeps to advise a message has come in while you were gone Color - White (closer to Ivory) One Year Limited Warranty
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Easy, Cheap. Efficient July 4, 2008
As with another reviewer, I got fed up with fancy voice-mail systems (requiring a monthly fee). So I ditched v-m and got this machine. It's small, it's reliable, and it sounds fine. It doesn't interfere with our phone which announces the caller, so now I can ignore "Number Not Provided" calls, get my messages without fuss, and quit paying monthly fees. The machine was very easy to set up. All I needed was a little gizmo that converts the one-jack connection at the wall into a 2-jack connection. Maybe the machine won't last a year (I've had for only two months), but if so, I'll buy a new one and still be in money!
 Basic, not great July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After a job change, I now work exclusively from home. I already have a second phone number for work purposes, but needed an answering system. Phone company is not yet able to provide voice mail on the second number (distinctive ring, not a separate line), so I opted for a physical answering machine. After some research, I decided on the AT&T 1739.
It arrived quickly, and set up quickly. Its biggest drawback is the poor sound quality when recording the outgoing message. You are told to speak over a minuscule condenser mic, and it took a good 4 attempts before I was remotely happy with the sound of it. You get some snow and static, no matter where you are when you record.
Other than that, it works just fine. I don't expect to use it all that much, so for the price, it was a good buy.
Great for old people June 9, 2008
I bought this for my 93 year old mother in law. It works like a charm.
 Poor quality device June 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Purchased this item. Arrived in a timely manner. Unit records poorly, but the kicker was that every few seconds a crackle would come thru the speaker... after five minutes of that you start to go crazy. No way to turn off the speaker and still have it pick up messages.
Very poor and distorted sound quality June 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this AT&T 1739 answering machine 6 weeks ago and, unfortunately, didn't bother to set it up until yesterday which means my return privilege has expired, otherwise it would have gone back in a flash.
The unit is easy to set up, logical in the way it functions, and takes up very little counter space (though I don't like the way the telephone line connector cord is hard wired into the unit, itself, so you'll have to replace the entire machine if the line cord ever becomes damaged).
The real problem with this machine is that the message record/playback sound quality is absolutely horrible. It is nearly impossible to identify callers by the sound of their voice because this machine alters and distorts the voices so much. All messages are recorded with a very poor "digital-like" electronic sound quality which is very choppy and unnatural (like a very bad 'futuristic' movie from the early 60's). It's almost as if little bits of the digital data are being discarded instead of recorded in order to save memory space. It also severely limits the audio frequencies of the recording which makes words muffled and unintelligible ("S"'s sound like "F"'s, etc.).
For example, she might have left you a message that said "last night was just heaven", but you might have thought she said "last night was just a seven" -- not exactly a confidence-builder, if you know what I mean. The sound quality is so poor it's almost as if the caller were holding a cloth over the phone to disguise their voice. (Then again, maybe those ARE blackmailers who keep calling me. It's hard to tell.)
What that all means to you is that if someone calls and leaves a message like "Honey, don't bother to pick up the kids this afternoon because I'm going to do it on the way home" you just better hope it's not a wrong number because you will have no way of knowing that the voice on the other end wasn't that of your wife.
It's too bad because AT&T used to make very high quality products. Now I suppose they just license their name to anyone who will pay them to use it. I know choices are limited for answering machines, but my recommendation is to stay far away from this one. Unless, of course, you're into blackmail.
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