Customer Reviews

AT&T TL71308 5.8GHz Digital Three Handset Cordless Telephone (Titanium and Metallic Charcoal)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

AT&T TL71308 5.8GHz Digital Three Handset Cordless Telephone (Titanium and Metallic Charcoal)

I have bought a number of cordless telephones and been unhappy with the speaker quality and the directory quality. This ATT phone has excellent speaker qualities and the directory automatically alphabetizes entries. I also like that what I do to one phone directory, I do to all, BUT I can individualize the ring tone and volume for each phone. Three handsets means three handsets, not four as pictured. When I bought mine, the picture was accurate and showed only three total handsets, one base and 2 additional hand sets.

I bought this cordless telephone system through a marketplace merchant(since Amazon themselves wouldn't be able to supply this model until 2 month from now)
Despite installing the batteries correctly, and trying to charge the 3 handsets for a day(with the red power indicator on, and the display reading "Charging"), two of the three handsets still indicated "Low Battery", and the third handset's display didn't display anything, despite the fact that the red power indicator is on when the handset was in the base. Ultimately, for 2 of the 3 handsets that I struggled with, it took two and a half days of charging before the handsets would illuminate and operate properly. The supplied rechargable batteries had been supplied in an extremely depleted state, despite the factory seal on the carton.

UPDATE:The 3 batteries supplied with this telephone set were bad batteries, which couldn't hold a charge for more than a day, even with the phones idle. I returned this cordless telephone set to the merchant and got a replacement set that works fine. The batteries supplied with the new set had enough power in them that the backlights illuminated immediate upon installing the batteries, and they fully charged up in less than a day.

The phone system seems simple to use, and is working fine now, despite an extremely frustrating start. I would change the number of stars awarded to 4 stars, but Amazon's system to revise my review won't permit me to.

The phones(even with the volume turned up), are not the world's loudest. they'll be fine for most people(including me), but not for my elderly mother.

I was looking for a cordless phone that was fairly simple to use/program and that didn't have an answering machine. There is much to like about this phone. First of all, the design is attractive and tasteful. The buttons on the keypad are sized perfectly and easy to read. The buttons all have a nice, tactile feel and are laid out in a logical manner. The quality of materials is as good or better than every other phone I examined at Best Buy. So far, the sound quality has been very good and we have had no signal range problems even when using one of the handsets at the far end of the house or outside. Another plus is that the frequency of this ATT phone should not interfere with wireless devices such as computer network routers. Highly recommended.

Just puchased this phone and am extremly happy with it!The software and menu are very easy to navigate,the base acts as the memory for all 3 hand sets so any # you program in 1 handset is in all. Sound is clear,keypad has a nice touch,large screen for easy viewing,nice feel to the handsets.

These are very good phones. -- Good sound quality and dependable. They work much better than other cheap phones that I have had in the past.

I purchased the AT&T TL 71308 three phone package about a year ago. Of my three units one will hold a charge for about 3 minutes of talk time and the other poops out after less than 10 minutes of use, even less if you use it at a speaker phone. This is after sitting in the charge cradle for days. Naturally the phones are out of warranty and I find that the replacement battery BT5633 cost between $18 to $20 each. Replacing the three batteries will cost me a much as a I paid for the entire phone set. Friends of mine tell me of similar problems with these newer AT&T phones. As far as I am concerned I will replace the unit with another brand and will never buy another AT&T product again. I have A Uniden 2 phone system that is going strong after 5 years of use on the original batteries.

This is a very good phone. It is very clear and has a very good speaker phone. Much better than Uniden brand. Highly recommend.

The quality of the phone and handsets are top notch, and has good features. How ever they are lacking in two primary areas for me. The ringtones are very generic and limited. In addition, I feel that each handset should blink if you have a voice-mail message and not just the base of the main phone. Other than those two items, I am quite pleased.

I bought this phone specifically because it can be wall-mounted. While the base is designed to fit onto a telephone wall plate, the wiring is not. Contrary to the instuctions, there is no way to fit the wires "behind the base unit" and still get it to mount on the wall. To do this, I will have to buy a special short cable, which AT&T should have included with the unit. More cost, a lot of hassle. Sound quality is very good. But forget about mounting this one on the wall easily.

I have gone through way too many phones over the past several years. Uniden, Panasonic and ATT. Oddly, what should be a basic item which is easy to use/operate with high quality is a difficult thing.

Good - Decent range but not great. I live in a three story brick 100+year old house so going from the second floor (north room) to the first floor (south room) usually doesn't work.

Good - Enter a number into one phone book and they all have the number
Bad - Fairly limited memory for phone book

Good - Nice user interface and lighted dial. I do prefer the Panasonic UI however.

Bad - whenever I use a headset (lots of conference calls) others on the call hear an echo. This is a new headset from Plantronics and others had the very same problem. Ergo, the phone is the culprit I think. It *could* be my VOIP service however...still testing this.

In sum, I wouldn't pay more than a Panasonic equivalent for this setup.