GE 29393GE1 Corded Call-Waiting Caller ID Speakerphone

by General Electric

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 9.5 x 3 inches ; 4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005NGRF
• Item model number: 29393ge1
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 18, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

GE's 29393 is sensibly designed in a classical corded form. It has a 12-number memory for your most frequently dialed numbers, and the speakerphone frees your hands for more important tasks. The 99-name-and-number caller ID memory keeps track of all your missed calls, displayed on the three-line LCD for easy reading and quick callback. The one-touch redial button is extremely convenient when you've just remembered something important to tell a friend after hanging up. Separate volume controls for the handset, speakerphone, and ringer let you customize the proper audio levels, and the phone is wall mountable. GE offers a one-year limited warranty.

Product Description

GE 29393GE1 Corded Call-Waiting Caller ID speakerphone

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Oxymoron: great phone; lousy sound., March 26, 2002

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GE 29393GE1 Corded Call-Waiting Caller ID Speakerphone (Office Product)

If I want to be assured of good quality, I'll stick to AT&T or Panasonic phones. But the phone I was replacing was a 12-year-old digital GE that had served me well. Moreover, this model, besides being compact, easy to set up and use, had the exact features I wanted, no extra bells and whistles. But, alas, the quality of the speaker phone is no better than that of the model I replaced--messages of callers are hard to decipher, my greeting is slightly distorted, consonants are indistinct, and the "mechanical lady's" prompts are often unintelligible. And, as other reviewers have observed, the liquid display of the Caller I.D. can be set so that it's readable from only one position. If I'm sitting, I can't see it when I'm standing and vice versa. My hunch is that phone manufacturers have invested all of their research and development in cordless models for the past 12 years, merely providing some external face-lifting to the corded models. If you have more time than I, you may wish to check out one of those AT&T or Panasonic models first. Either that, or concede the advantage to a cordless model.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nice looks, poor design, November 22, 2001

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David Isaac (Bethesda, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: GE 29393GE1 Corded Call-Waiting Caller ID Speakerphone (Office Product)

I just received this phone and found that the caller ID is unreadable unless it faces you squarely...ok if mounted on a wall, but no good on the desktop. See the product picture? At that angle, all the LCD segments appear black. Phone also picks up severe hum at various locations in my house. Very disappointing.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible audio quality, June 22, 2003

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Roy S. Miller (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: GE 29393GE1 Corded Call-Waiting Caller ID Speakerphone (Office Product)

I have purchased three of these phones now in an attempt to get one with acceptable handset audio quality. (I bought one in an attempt to upgrade my phone service; it was bad - terrible handset audio quality. I returned it to the store, replaced it and bought one extra thinking that the problem was solved. I have two phone lines, hence two phones. Also it is a 40 mile drive to the store!)

All three are essentially unusable. When you are speaking into the handset microphone, properly designed telephones provide some audio feedback to the handset speaker so you can hear yourself as you would when speaking normally in, say, a face to face conversation. The feedback on this telephone is terrible; it is highly distored and it overloads easily.

All in all, a 0 on a scale of 10 for human factors. For $... you expect some quality.