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This is a really great phone except for two problems. (1) Occasionally when a caller leaves a message on the message machine, dropouts (no sound) will occur. This happens if the caller's voice is quiet or the connection is poor. We returned the phone because we were missing so many messages. (2) To get 18 minutes of recording, sony compresses the voice messages and so they sometimes come out garbled and difficult to hear. Also, the outgoing message isn't very loud to the caller and they frequently ignore it.

Other than that, this was a really great phone.

The Sony phone/answering system we purchased has the caller ID on the handset itself. The phone is the best phone we've ever had. However, the digital built in ans. machine is the worst. It is very difficult to understand what people said because it is very muffled and "digitized."

The handset volume was too low; all conversations had to be turned up to be heard, even in a quiet room. The handset was not clear for either party. Sounds were "clipped". The recordings on the answering machine were unintelligible and had to be repeated several times. The message counter only indicated new messages, so there was no way to gage how many old messages might be on the machine without playing them. The beeping tone indicating new messages was nearly inaudible. No backup battery in base to keep settings in case of power outage. And, lastly, it was nice being able to perform any answering machine functions from the handset on my last phone; no such feature on this phone. At least the handset wasn't so small it couldn't be held or cradled between your cheek and shoulder. I returned the item to the store from which it was purchased and am awaiting a new one to try.

Having this phone is not about being able to see how far you can actually walk away and not get static sounds when you are too far away. The service that it gives with the digital messages is what amazes me the most. I can quickly breeze through any any and all of my messages and erase them even faster. If I choose to I can turn the ringer off if I choose not to take calls and the message machine picks up, recording messages for as long as 18 minutes and the memory has a capacity of any where from 36 to 54 messages capacity. I highly recommend this phone and hope that you enjoy using it as much as I have.

The phone seemed great, answering machine had problems with cutting off parts of message... after 1 week, battery just wouldn't work, even though phone had not been away from base cradle except for actual phone calls. Replacing battery at my own cost did not fix. I returned item as faulty and would not recommend it to anyone.