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Cordless Phone, 2.4 GHz band, Single Line Operation, 50 Speed-dial Numbers, Caller ID, Call Waiting, Answering System, Speakerphon... |  |
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| Product Reviews from Amazon.com (Rating System 1 to 5) |
| Review | Rating | Last Updated | Button trouble
The buttons on this phone are very hard to use. Sometimes you have to push them down really hard and press squarely in the middle. With other buttons if you do this you will dial the same number twice. This thing can be very frustrating. Does anyone have a key pad that works well?
Paul | 1 | Today | AT&T Cordless Phone Answering Machine
Excellent range on this phone. No problems using near wireless router with same frequency. | 5 | Today | Bad phone, Bad phone. Read review for helpful information
I agree, 1 star is too generous. I have the same problem with the beeping and the hard to press keypad. DONT BUY THIS PHONE. However, if you already have it I have discovered that it only beeps or mutes, on our system, when you say a word with an 'ssss' sound. So, you simply dont say this sound, sorry 'ound' (remember, no ssss). Oh I did it again. orry, no ound. So if you decide to read this review to someone on this phone, remember to remove the s's. I realize this makes no sense. There must be a 'no s's allowed' circuit in there somewhere.
Now, even stranger. I have been able to cure the hard to press keypad. But, you have to take the phone apart. When you do you will discover that there is an oily film on the back of the rubber keypad and front of circuit board thus preventing the push buttons to close contacts on the printed circuit board. Now all you have to do is get some rubbing alcohol, (if you can use the 90+% isopropyl alcohol, the less water the better), and a cotton swab/cotton ball and wipe the oil away. Clean the rubber keypad and the circuit board. Put the phone back together and the buttons will work just fine. For a while.
This seems to work for about a month and the oil film amazingly appears again. The oil film accumulates on the middle of both of our handset keypads. Can anyone explain where this oil comes from?
So remember, check the oil in your car. Add as needed. AND check the oil in your phone. Remove as needed.
| 1 | Today | Worst phone I've ever owned!!
I have always sworn by AT&T products, but this experience made me change my mind in one fell swoop. The buttons on the phone hardly work - one press of the "4" has you dialing the UK, and if the number you happen to be dialing has a "5" in it, forget it.
As another reviewer has said, I'm glad to have read these reviews, it has been cathartic! | 1 | Today | AT&T 2.4 GHz - BAD PHONE
I don't usually take the time to write reviews but I'm ready to take this phone and throw it out the window! We purchased the phone in June 2004 and wasn't impressed even from the beginning but figured it did what we needed. We worked around the no back up system and needing to always reset everything each time the power went out (which happened a lot that first year since they were building a couple of new homes near us and on several occassions cut a power line to the whole neighborhood). But my BIGGEST COMPLAINT is the HORRIBLE NUMBERS!!! It's so bad that we have to go into our home office to pick up the Harley phone my husband has had for over 15 years just to dial a number and then switch to this phone to talk to someone. Also, we live where we MUST dial 1-area code each time to call someone but when the phone records the number on caller-id it always starts it with the area code and NO NUMBER 1 in front of it so you have to write down the number somewhere else and then go back in to the phone book to properly dial it and save it in the phone book. Even if you don't care to keep the number you can't just call the "missed call" number right back because you must dial 1 - area code - then number... Well, I will never purchase a AT&T phone again and will continue to look for some other phone! I'm still mad that we spend $108.00 with tax on this phone - grrrrrr!!! The most expensive phone we ever purchased yet it is the worst phone we ever purchased too!!! My husband and I usually live by the rule of "you get what you pay for." In the past this belief as been good to us when thinking of making important purchases especially when it comes to electronics but it looks like this time we were wrong! | 1 | Today | Cannot Recommend
I've had this phone for a couple of years, and although the sound quality was not great even in the beginning, I was initially pleased. Soon, however, the number buttons started acting up. You usually have to press the On button and a couple of the number buttons, like the 6, two or three times before they will work, which causes some frustration.
I do like the intercom function and use it to call other handsets in the house, but since this is a feature you can get on all of these kinds of expandable phone systems, it isn't enough to tempt me to buy another.
I say "buy another" because I was on Amazon searching for a replacement for this phone and stumbled upon this one I already own. I rarely write reviews on Amazon but felt strongly enough about this product that I wanted to warn others to spend their money elsewhere. | 2 | Today | Horrid phone--save your money!
The handset buttons do not work. This is possibly the worst phone I've ever used. If there were a negative scoring system on Amazon, this phone would be a negative five stars. | 1 | Today | Stinksville
As my wife is fond of saying, "thatstinks dot com!" After about four years with this craptacular phone system, we were on the brink of seeking professional counseling. Instead, we read the other customer reviews -- it has been incredibly cathartic. We laughed, we cried. Literally. Everything you can say about the AT&T 2256 has been covered here: the beeps, the "die waiting for 911" keypad, YELLING ROBOT answering machine.... We were going to sell the phone on ebay or give it away, but can't with good conscience, so we will box it up and keep it so that we NEVER FORGET. | 1 | Today | It's a matter of design
AT&T 2256 cordless phone and answering machine.
Good Points
* Phone and answering machine work if you do everything correctly.
Bad Points
* When the phone rings (incoming call) the handset stay silent while the base station rings. Why not the other way around? When's the last time you misplaced your hard-wired phone jack?!
* Speakerphone button. Does it hang up or toggle between handset/speakerphone mode? See how you feel after spending half an hour on hold and guessing wrong because you didn't read the designer's mind. Giving the user the right cues (even without the manual!) is an important part of good design.
* When listening to messages, the answering machine's voice (the mechanized narrator) is REALLY loud in comparison to your friend's voices. Why? Good design gives the user a good cue. What's up with this phone?
* No backup power source. Every time our power grid blinks off even for a few seconds, I have to reset the machine's time/date. Help me remember why god gave us capacitors.!.
* The buttons are preposterously hard to push. Other reviewers have articulated this one effectively. I repeat it here only to express my bewilderment at the monumentally poor design. For how many years now has our civilization beein interacting with keypads and rudimentary IO? Sheesh! | 1 | Today | Do not buy this phone
The buttons on this phone are extremely hard to use. It is very frustrating to try and punch in a callback number to a pager only to be thwarted by a phone that interprets your finger on "6" as "66" or refuses to accept your finger pushing on the "5" button. I was worried this was a feature I would have to live with on all cordless phones. Now that I have read other reviews it appears to be a problem fairly unique to this AT & T phone. Don't buy it! | 1 | Today |
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