AT&T CL4940 Corded Standard Phone with Answering System and Backlit Display, White

I got 2 of these landliine phones for practically nothing on a bump and scratch deal here on Amazon. The phones I received were brand new and I couldn't see any defects. These units have pretty much every bell and whistle you could imagine. The answering system works great and is very easy to program using the large LCD display and relatively intuitive menus. The amplifier works "okay" and I really like the equalizer to help change the tone of a caller's voice. The only thing I wish it had was a way to change to tone of the ringer. You can only turn it up, down, or off. Calls are crystal clear. For young people, they have no idea of what they are missing if they've never used a good landline phone. This is a great option if you are in need of a landline phone that has some features that are great for young and old alike.

Recently replaced phone with this model Pros: 1) Large numbers on big buttons that are easy to see. 2) Volume control for ringer and audio. 3: Tone control to boost highs or lows to make hearing easier without hearing aids. 4) Answering function is useful for pre-screening calls, as well as catching those when away.. 5) Speaker phone is convenient for long conversations or when hands-free is needed. 6) Also has Mute, Speed Dial, No answer and Stored # directory. 7) 3 line # and caller ID display with adjustable contrast and brightness. Cons: Not a mobile, smartphone, so no web browsing, texting, etc. For me no problem ' cause I do all that on a computer Great land line for those who need one.

This is a wonderful phone for the price and functions. It was very easy to program and had good, quality craftmanship.

works good, we wanted a home phone for doctors offices especially to call and leavea message, I have a close caption app on my cell phone, I put it right beside it turn the speaker onand can see what people are saying.We could not get one of those close caption phones advertise, we have star link and they do not workon wireless internet

My old cordless phone with a built in answerer had finally given up the ghost. Even though it still worked, you couldn't tell what the display was showing anymore and it was beginning to lost connections when away from the base. The main reason was the display as you couldn't tell what you were dialing anymore. At any rate, I really wanted a cord type phone as the cordless was not of any use if a power outage took place. I needed a phone with answerer and number memory so I wouldn't have to keep up with the numbers as I'm really bad keeping up with things like this without keeping notes, etc. I checked this phone out for a replacement for the old one. It seems to have all the features I needed and a few I didn't need. After reading the reviews and looking over the features, I decided it was the one for me. Got it in yesterday and unpacked and looked it over. Liked it's look and styling. I noted it could be wall mounted and as I had once had a wall mounted cord phone that I liked this was great. I got a 25 foot headset cord to go with it and had no trouble installing it. After the usually drilling holes, placing of screws and getting the phone mounted, I had it set up and checked it out. First thing I noted was the answerer's message is very bland and I changed that right off the bat. This was very easy to do and that sort of surprised me as my old one had been a bit of a pain to change. I noted that this phone has easy to read prompts to help and also voice cues to help you. The display was large and easy to read, but the angle on my wall was such that I had to up the contrast to be able to see it OK. This was very easy to do. Changing any settings were very easy to do and the manual that came with it was very helpful in this. Entering numbers in the phone's memory was likewise very easy to do. I did note one thing in the manual however that was a bit confusing. The manual states the phone has 10 speed dial locations and it does, but what it doesn't point out is that these locations are taken from the phone's total memory for phone numbers which is 25 total. So if you store 10 speed dial items, then you only have 15 slots left in the directory slots. In the manual, it seems to say that you have 10 speed dial and 25 phone directory locations when you only have 25 slots total. That said, that's a very minor thing for me. I really liked the ability to turn off the ringer and the call monitoring feature if you wanted to. The display stays off until a call is received or you use the phone. It then comes on and if the call monitor and ringing are off, it stays silent when dealing with the call. My old phone would sometimes wake me up when it received a call and you couldn't turn this off on it. This was a real pleasure for me. It also has volume controls and a type of "tone" adjustment that I set to natural as that sounded good to me. On the power outage front, I noted that if you lose power the basic phone functions are still there as they run off the phone company's line voltage. (My old one would just go dead until the power came back up.) Overall, this phone is just what the doctor ordered for me and I'm very happy with it.