Customer Reviews

Ameriphone XL30 Phone with 30-dB Amplification and Large Keypad (White)

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Bought this phone as a birthday gift for my Mother. Worked for two months and then she couldn't hear anything in the receiver. We got her a new receiver but now people can hear her only very faintly when she talks. I wouldn't purchase from them again and wouldn't recommend their phones.

The Ameriphone XL 30 is one of a very few phones that will amplify the OUTGOING signal. Our phone line is not great and people kept telling us, "I can't hear you!" No more. I installed the XL 30 in a wall mount mode, switched on the 15 db amplification and Bingo, no more problems. It will also add amplification to the incoming signal and allow you to shift the tone curve so that it can be adjusted to your ears. The big number keys are great and the one button memory dailing is an improvement over our old phone. It really works and seems like a high quality instrument.

Got a second phone for my mother. The first one was free for the hard of hearing! Seems to be the same but the keys starting sticking. Maybe something was spilled on the phone. I can't be sure.

I spent a good amount of time looking for a phone for my mother who is both hearing impaired and visually challenged. This unit seemed like the correct choice as it had easy to use memory speed dial buttons and good amplification specifications. This unit was purchased new from [...] through Amazon. When it arrived at my home I tested it out and was extremely disappointed. Horrible sound quality, noisy volume control, noisy handset cord, and when set to the loudest setting was hardly loud at all. Even the ringer volume wasn't great, but the flashing light worked well. In short it was a piece of garbage and was promptly returned.

Since we purchased this phone for a visually impaired person, we were surprised that the volume control has to be reset every time the phone is used - making it difficult for her to handle this. Otherwise your product is great. Just needs work on volume control - make it so it does not have to be reset each and every time the phone is used.

This WOULD HAVE been the perfect phone for my 89 year-old mother ... IF it had worked as described in the user manual. Since she lives in an assisted living facility, and she has to dial "7" to get an outside line, she needed a phone that would include a pause when programming the memory buttons. The user manual describes how to do it, but it wouldn't work. I even called Ameriphone's customer support, and they verified the phone was defective. I returned it to Amazon, and they shipped me a new one pronto! However, the replacement had EXACTLY THE SAME PROBLEM, so I'm not sure whether both phones were defective, or it just has a defective design. Amazon took the second one back too, and gave up on it, refunding my full purchase price including shipping. Amazon performed very well, but this phone did NOT! The only problem is I can't find anything out there made by another company that has the same great features. BUMMER!