AT&T CL4940 Corded Standard Phone with Answering System and Backlit Display, White

Incredible Phone Purchase. The User's Manual was developed for anyone/everyone to setup the phone with ease. There are functions to set your phone quality just the way you want it. Everything about this phone is easy and well designed. I will agree with only one comment that I read in reviews. I believe the date and time could be larger and that the ATT Model Number does not need to be displayed on the display screen. Otherwise, this phone is near perfection.

Sister very happy with phone

I love the big numbers for dialing. I wish some of the lettering was a little bigger for the call log and directory. The sound quality is very good. It was pretty easy to set up and it has what I need. I just needed a basic phone with the ability to look up the past numbers that called me. My old phone died and I was relieved to find one that had a big screen that was easy to read.

Monitor on the phone displays incoming calls with descriptions. This feature is an upgrade when compared with my previous phone. I am able to see which numbers are robocalls.

Got this for my mom. Easy to use good sound quality.

I bought this phone for my mother, who isn't very good with technology, is a bit hard of hearing, and doesn't see very well.I specifically bought the phone for the large LCD display with the orange background, because of its high contrast, and the hearing assist feature.The ringer can be turned up nice and loud, and the hearing assist feature amplifies the caller enough that mom can easily hear the person on the other end. She can also read the caller ID display, so this phone has met my expectations.It's also pretty easy to use. When viewing the caller ID list, if she wants to call someone back, all she needs to do is pick up the handset and the phone will dial the number. So she can use this phone even though she's not very technologically savvy.There are a few things that I don't like about the phone.- Limited Directory listings. You can only store 25 numbers into memory. These days when you may have a home phone, plus two or three mobile numbers for a family member, 25 numbers just isn't adequate. Especially if you need to take into account: Children (and spouses) grandchildren, friends, etc... 50 would be a better limitation, while 100 numbers would probably be ideal.- Directory isn't alphabetical! I can't figure this one out, as it would seem that alphabetizing your phone list would be basic functionality. However, this phone doesn't seem to think so. What this means, is that it makes it difficult to find individual phone numbers using the directory. The directory has a feature (most phones do this) that you can enter the directory, then press one of the number keys to go directly to a letter of the alphabet. In theory, this makes it easy to locate a number. Calling a name starting with a "J"? Press the 5 button and start scrolling through the "J's". With this phone though, the numbers are in the directory in the order you've added them... So, you can press the 5 button to get to the J's, but scrolling down may go J, S, B, etc... This just doesn't make any sense to me... The manual says the entries will be sorted alphabetically if you go to a letter and scroll down, but this isn't the case. No matter how I try to scroll through the directory, it isn't sorted properly.- Abridged manual. For some reason, the manual included with this phone is the abridged version. If you want the full manual, you'll need to download the .PDF from AT&T's support site.The abridged manual doesn't describe some functionality that I would consider necessary information. For example, the abridged manual tells you how to add your home area code, as well as four alternate local area codes. What it doesn't explain is what this area code is used for. In my area, the area code is required on local calls, so the phone should display 10 numbers. Thinking that adding the area code would enable this functionality, I added it as my home area code. Then I was trying to figure out why the caller ID was only showing 7 numbers. So if you tried to call a number back using the caller ID information, the call wouldn't go through because it won't dial the area code first.After trying to figure out what was going on, I noticed that the manual said it was the abridged version... What? So I went to AT&T's website and downloaded the full manual. The full manual describes that the function of adding the area code is the opposite of what I would expect. Adding your home area code to the phone will cause the caller ID data to NOT show the area code! If you need the area code to make local calls, don't add your area code... The full manual also explains how to change this data on the fly using the pound key. If a number comes through as showing only 7 digits and you need 10, you can press the pound key to add the area code to the number. Why isn't this in the abridged manual?- Audio assist is per call. You can't tell the phone to always use audio assist. You must press the audio assist button each time you are on a call. I can see how this would make sense if multiple users are going to be using the phone, but if only a single person will be using it and they are hard of hearing, it would be nice to have a way to always enable the audio assist.

works good, we wanted a home phone for doctors offices especially to call and leavea message, I have a close caption app on my cell phone, I put it right beside it turn the speaker onand can see what people are saying.We could not get one of those close caption phones advertise, we have star link and they do not workon wireless internet

Great hearing aid phone