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Pros & Cons

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Pros

It has a volume control wheel on the handset and a lever on the side to mute the ringer or enable it. It’s ringtone is loud but not deafening which i like and it does not scare other members of the family or the dog by being obnoxious.

This phone is exactly what you want for a wall-mount plate like the one specified in another review. Once the confusion is out of the way, this is a great phone. Would highly recommend.

It feels very solid. It has solid-feeling pushbuttons. It isn't as heavy as the old western electric phones with their big transformers. Just a little heavy.

The batphone is installed and seems to be working great. The old-style receiver also feels nice in the hand and sounds good. Conversations on the phone are not as crisp as they are with more modern technology, but then again that is not what we were c...  Read More



Cons

The spring doesn't have enough guts to return the hookswitch to the off position. Don't waste your time.

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Highlights

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Quality


Good product works great would order again


Very pleased with the phone and it arrived very quickly


The interface on the phone was too short to mate with the wall mouni connwction


Call quality is about what youd expect in that its perfectly acceptable but not good enough to hear a pin drop across the room

Packaging/appearance


The packaging was very nice and it looked great on my kitchen wall

Competitiveness


The phone is located about 300 feet away from the phone hub and uses 2 wires from a cat5 cable going into an rj11 jack


Make sure you get a wallplate thats required

Overview

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  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 74 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 13 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Took two tries till i got one that worked right


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The sound quality is goodthe plastic is hardthe color is evenoverall very authentic like when i was a kid


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its working fine but there was an issue in the beginning the buttons on the keypad stopped working properly and you couldnt dial out


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Fortunately only 4 people died before i took it completely apart reassembled it and got it working again


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This could have been a problem with the jack though


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I took one star off for the initial problems i had


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It is weird hearing a mechanical bell and takes some getting used to


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    After looking at a couple of other phones that look pretty similar to this i chose this one because it had better reviews as a phone

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