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List Price: $179.95
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Manufacturer: Vtech
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: AT&T
Color: Charcoal
EAN: 0650530014734
Feature: Corded 4-line speakerphone with built-in digital answering system
Label: Vtech
Manufacturer: Vtech
Model: 1080
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Vtech
Studio: Vtech
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Features
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Corded 4-line speakerphone with built-in digital answering system
Digital answering machine offers 60 minutes of recording
Three-party conferencing
Each line can be set to its own distinct ringtone
32 speed-dial and 16 intercom number locations
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Editorial Reviews:
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Keep in touch with friends and family with this AT&T 4-Line Corded Speakerphone with Answering System. For absolute simplicity and freedom, the phone is headset compatible for hands-free use (headset is optional). Do you have a hearing aid? Don't worry, this phone is completely hearing aid compatible for natural sound and you can adjust the volume. A large, easy-to-read LCD screen displays the date, time, extension, and other data and is also compatible with Caller-ID and Call-Waiting display. With 32 Speed Dial locations and 200-number Caller ID history, you can keep track of your favorite friends and family. With its 4 incoming lines, you can put a call on hold to answer another call. And with its 3-party conferencing capability, you don't need to pay a fee for outside service. When you're not at home or just don't feel like picking up the phone, the AT&T 1080 has a digital answering machine. The Programmable Auto Attendant allows incoming calls to be routed to specific lines and allows storage of three distinct messages when no one is available to take the call.
Call Waiting/Caller ID (Service required from your local telephone company) Page, Intercom and Call Transfer Between Stations Flash/hold/mute/auto redial Hearing aid compatible 2.5mm Headset jack Programmable Auto Attendant 3-party conferencing capability Distinctive ring tones for each line Speakerphone allows hands-free conversations Receiver/Speakerphone/Headset/Ringer volume control 2 Switchable data ports for easy fax/modem connections 4 lighted line indicators 4-Line by 16 Character backlit LCD Expandable up to a total of 16 stations Memory loss protection Wall mountable Manufacturer's 1-year limited warranty
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I wanted to like this phone. I have had bad luck with life expectancy of cordless multi-line phones (and I'm not hard on phones), so when I found this phone and read the reviews, I was enthused. I bought this model, and the AT&T 1070, for our home office. Unfortunately, the speakerphone quit working almost immediately, and the headset feature had a loud hiss. I returned the phone for an exchange, and the exchanged unit had the identical problem. Amazon, understandably, would not exchange the phone yet again, saying the problem must be more widespread than initially believed. Then the 1070's headset feature quit working altogether. I guess the quest for a quality two-line phone with answerer continues.
This is truly a disappointment because this phone has some really great features. I wish AT&T would make their own products, using USA workers and greater quality control. I fear I'm wishing for bygone days that will not be returning, at least any time soon.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Phone For Small Business
Comment: Phone worked great right out of the box.
Big, easy buttons to hit. The digital answering system is great (no subscription required).
Quality is superb, no problem with the speaker phone either.
The only annoying thing is the new call light comes on even with phone calls that I answer. Not a dealbreaker by any means.
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Summary: Lots of features
Comment: This is a great product with lots of neat features. Actually many more features than I will ever use.
The manuals (3 of them) are very detailed in how to configure and use the phone.
The features I like and use:
Ability to use a headset (Have you ever tried to hold a handset while using your computer?)
3 lines (phone actually has 4 lines)
Built in voice mail digital recorder
32 speed dial buttons
Conference calling feature
Configuration control to set up features to suit the user.
The one thing I do NOT like:
Red light comes on with every call received, and stays on even if I answer the phone before the answering machine picks up, and it also stays on after I have listened to a voice mail message. Clearing this red light is a real pain.
This is definitely an improvement over my older AT&T telephone.
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Summary: Hands-on Review (from Phonewire.com)
Comment: The good: The four-way directional button and center "Enter" button become your primary tool to quickly and easily select features without the need to remember codes or special key sequences. In fact, all too often, these "non-KSU" phones will have buttons with two or more functions -- not this new AT&T series! The buttons on the phone are self-explanatory and only serve the one function for which they are labeled. All related feature options appear on the blue backlit LCD screen when you are in a particular mode that offers more options. For example, when you lift the handset and press the Intercom button, the top half of the screen prompts "Intercom No.?" while the bottom half of the screen presents you to optionally "Page" a single extension (instead of simply ringing it) or to "Page All" and broadcast your announcement on all the phones in your home or office simultaneously.
Another improvement, which is why I suspect these phones aren't backwards compatible with earlier AT&T "non-KSU" phones other than the 1000-series: the Intercom audio is digital, crystal clear. No longer will your Intercom calls be subjected to interference from a nearby radio station transmitter or other nuisance! With two phones side-by-side, you can detect a slight millisecond or so delay as an Intercom page is encoded on your phone to be then decoded on the destination phone. The sound quality is truly impressive and worthwhile. If you are currently experiencing any issues with your Intercom on older non-KSU phones, you might want to give a pair of these a test run.
The bad: If you transfer a call from one phone to the next, the caller hears nothing. No music-on-hold, no tones -- nothing but silence. If they had offered an option to play a soft double-beep tone to the caller every couple of seconds, that would have been a worthwhile improvement over dead-air. (However, the ATT 1080 does play a "Please hold" recorded announcement every few seconds when a caller is transferring to an extension by way of the built-in auto attendent included on that ATT 1080 phone. But even that phone leaves the caller with dead air if they are put on hold or transferred by a human instead.)
One big disappointment was with regards to the system recognizing when a caller on-hold had disconnected. I tried everything in my "toolkit" of test equipment, but it seems these phones just don't recognize (or don't care) when a caller that you've placed on-hold chooses to hang up before you return to the call. The system will continue to keep that line blinking on-hold until you retrieve it -- often to the frustration of loud dialtone in your ear.
The ugly: When integrated with an ATT 1080 with the "SYS EXT" voice messaging feature enabled, trying to figure out how to listen to your messages on any phone except the ATT 1080 is a huge headache! For a phone system that is so "menu-driven" by that directional navigation and "enter" button arrangement near the LCD screen, it is irritating to have to dig out a reference card to use this ATT 1070 phone to listen to your messages in the mailbox reserved exclusively for your extension but actually recorded and stored on the ATT 1080 voicemail/answering system. It just seems to me this could have been better thought out!
My guess is that AT&T would probably "recommend" that you purchase an ATT 1080 phone for every person who needs a voicemail/answering system, instead of using one ATT 1080 to serve voicemail for multiple ATT 1070 phone users as their advertising suggests.
Conclusion: Overall, this is a great telephone. All features worked beautifully, each button pressed produced the expected result -- press the Transfer button while on a call, the LCD prompts "Transfer line to ?". By keeping one function per button, and also utilizing the navigation menu-driven options through the phone's display, anyone can easily figure out how to do anything on these phones without ever needing to read any of the documentation.
The speakerphone sounds nice, although the volume of the speaker could've been louder (in my opinion). Each phone allows you to control the ringing tone, volume, and delay ringing options for each line individually. Believe it or not, that level of control of line ringing assignments are usually reserved for KSU systems only! Intercom calling worked flawlessly. All-Page was loud and very practical for a busy home with office, or larger retail store.
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