Home > Consumer Reviews > AT&T E2600B 2.4 GHz DSS Expandable Cordless Phone with Answering System and Dual Handsets

This cordless phone has everything I was looking for...answering system, speaker phone, capability of saving lots of numbers, easy to program and most importantly the ability to add additional cordless phones. I have a large house and having telephones on a small recharging unit in various locations really saves me from running the length of the house to answer a phone. I have used this product in the past and never had any problems with it. Unfortunately, a lightning strike destroyed my previous AT&T cordless phones. My only critcism is that you can't download the information stored in the phone to a computer or disk. When I bought this new unit, I had to manually input all the telephone numbers again.

good performer with the exception of the advertised range - the phone performs at a much shorter range.

With the ubiquity of answering machines and voicemail systems, it's amazing to discover a device that seems to have been designed in a vacuum. It's chock-full of one poor design choice after another. Where to begin...

1. During playback, the message number, day and time are announced first, and veeerrrryyyy slowly. If you have several new messages, or you're listening to old messages, pull up a chair. (AT&T: put envelope info at the end--I'll listen if I want--or better yet, make it optional).

2. It's very easy to delete the wrong message. If you press delete after a message is complete (as soon as the person hangs up), you'll inadvertently delete the NEXT message (I did that alot).

3. If you have 18 saved messages, there's no way to listen to message 18 without scrolling through the first 17 messages. Not a big deal? Say you have 18 saved messages and just got three more, and want to replay the third new message again. Get ready to press the SKIP button 21 times. Is this digital or cassette tape? (I know the answer).

4. Why can't the caller ID info stay on the handset displays after the answering machine picks up? (I know all manufacturers seem to do this, but why?)

These may all seems like minor annoyances, but if you rely on your answering machine and need a certain level of sophistication (or at least the same capability as the cheapest cell phone plan), skip this one.

Have only had the phone for a few days, and am mostly pleased with the features, and ability to coexist with my wireless network; but, the quality of the outgoing message is poor, much below my expectations, and when trying to call back numbers from the call log I run into problems because the 10-digit number is used without the "1-" prefix, which doesn't connect for me (and I see no way to change the default setting for this, only can edit the number to add the prefix and store it in my notebook).

This system replaces a Siemans 2.4gig system. We could no longer cope with the finicky charging system and the poor voice quality, not to mention their nasty habbit of beeping for no reason in the middle of the night. No such problems so far with the AT&T. The E2600B sounds great both on the handset and for the person on the other end. And it is totally immune from interference with our 8011.b wireless network. Two shortcomings that keep it from getting 5 stars are that the phonebooks must be programmed for each handset and the handsets cannot be renamed.