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AT&T EL42208
5.8 out of 10

AT&T EL42208

Great Deal: $109.99

Reviews and Problems with AT&T EL42208

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Overall 2
2.0

broken after 1 year

John Spaith, Amazon
11 April 2010
  • Summary: I bought this phone about a year ago. It was solid until about a week ago, when it totally broke. When someone calls me now, the phone constantly rings - there is no...
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Overall 2
2.0

Horrible!!

Irene Martin "Zoers", Amazon
18 March 2010
  • Summary: I paid a lot of money for this phone a year ago - way more than it is going for now and it is a horrible phone.
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Overall 2
2.0

Battery Failure

Suzanne Clements, Amazon
10 January 2010
  • Summary: I bought this phone almost a year ago now to replace a Vtech I had had for a number of years. I thought a newer phone would be a nice upgrade... I was wrong.
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Overall 4
4.0

Answering machine sound quality is awful

J. Thompson, Amazon
6 October 2009
  • Summary: This phone performs well enough, but the answering machine on my unit is horrible. You literally cannot understand what the messages say unless the person has perfect...
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Overall 2
2.0

Pathetic Garbage

hmmmm90s, epinions.com
29 April 2009
  • Summary: unit is completely non-functional - AT&T should hand their head in shame...
  • Pros: none. absolutely none. might make good doorstop.
  • Cons: misses calls and garbles messages
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Overall 4
4.0

Privacy for the paranoid - laughable if not so pathetically flawed.

pllis53, epinions.com
30 December 2008
  • Summary: Luckily I have a receipt and can return it. I got it for my folks so that all 3 of us could chat at
  • Pros: good sound (over 2 week test)
  • Cons: inability to use both handsets simultaneously. very light weight and flimsy/fragile. keys easily pressed accidentally. AT&T = V-tech!
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Overall 6
6.0

Great if you're paranoid about someone eavesdropping on other handset

Patricia Ellis, Amazon
11 December 2008
  • Summary: I wish I had read Stephen's review first. Fortunately I have a receipt and can return it. I got it for my folks so that we could have long distance 3-way conversations.
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Overall 2
2.0

Do Not Buy

alrydberg, epinions.com
25 June 2008
  • Summary: Voicemail does not work.. The recordings get more and more garbled, after 5 or 6 messages they canno
  • Pros: None, it is just a telephone
  • Cons: No voicemail
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Overall 2
2.0

Lousy phone

Mark W. Greenfeldt, Amazon
10 June 2008
  • Summary: This phone had lousy reception and no range. If I got more then a dozen yards away from the base the static was overwhelming.
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Overall 4
4.0

some nice features, one fatal flaw

Stephen Algernon, Amazon
28 May 2008
  • Summary: We bought this phone because we wanted to be able to disable the ringers on our phones but still receive calls. We're able to do that with this system, so thats cool.
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