Looking for corded phone with advanced features

Nov 03, 2004 7 Replies
J
[ I apologize for this unglorified subject :-D ]

What I am looking for is just a regular CORDED phone for home. The kind that you would see in the office connected to the digital telephone system, with a bunch of one-touch dial buttons, large screen, phone book for at least 50 numbers that shows the person name and the number itself and built-in answering machine, but it should work with the regular telephone line in the US.



The only phone I found so far is



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It is somewhat expensive ( $266, you can still buy it even though it is no longer produced), and too large. I also don't need 3 lines.



It seems that no other phone like this exists on the market (there are similar, but none of them has built-in answering machine). And this brings me to the second part of the questions.



I believe something like that should be available in Japan. Does anyone know if their phone system is compatible with US ? If it does - can anyone recommend a company that does "unofficial" electronics import from Japan ? Kind of like DYNAMISM.COM (they don't deal with regular phones). Or maybe just point me to some Japanese website that ships to US. I don't speak Japanese at all, so it should have English version :-D



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J

Here are some others to look at:

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You will have to deal with the ubiquitous "wall wart" for power.

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R

sOMEWHAT!

Have you tried ebahy?

(that must be Ebay with a Boston accent)

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J

None of them has built-in answering machine

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J

Unfortunately, even if I get it from eBay, it won't take up less space on my desk :-D

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R

John Doe wrote: ....

Get a wall-mount "Princess" phone (with cord).

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C

Well, now that everybody has beat this subject to death, let's look in the same church, but a different pew.

Without a service provider, the Vista 470 is probably what you want, except it has no answering machine :-)

Go get a Panasonic 100B for $39 and add the Vista 470 for about $109.

Carl Navarro

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T

Nortel 9516. Unavailable new, but used on Ebay and other liquidation places. Aastra sells the same thing. Voicemail integrated with caller ID. There is no faster way of flying through your messages. It makes the telephone company's voicemail hopelessly ponderous. With the Nortel you delete your caller ID's WITH your messages when you are done with them. That way you don't have 2 lists to go through......your caller ID list and your voicemail list. Now if they could just figure out how to make an answering machine that answers the phone when you're already on the phone!

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