Customer Reviews

Voice 2000S Inc. 56 Minutes All Digital Telephone Answering Machine (Black)

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this is the worst sounding answering machine I've ever had or heard...no matter how many times I recorded my message, it sounds like absolute crap...it makes me want to go back to my tape machine...its amazing how poorly a digital machine can sound...i'm going to return this immediately. Don't buy this!

The user interface is ridiculously complicated. When you entera password for the mailboxes, it announces each number loudly afteryou entered it, making it difficult to maintain any privacy--why havepasswords at all if everyone nearby can hear your password when youenter it? The sound quality on the recordings is terrible--the firsttime my mother heard my outgoing recording, she said "What'swrong with your answering machine? It sounds like you're speakingfrom Jupiter!" Also, after a few months, the screen beganflashing "lo", which means the backup battery neededreplacing. Replacing it involves unscrewing a compartment on theunderside of the machine with a mini-screwdriver (why on earth nothave it just pop off like most?). So I put a brand new battery in.Less than a month later, it's flashing "lo" again, eventhough there haven't been any power outages, so the battery shouldn'teven have been used!...

The sound is awful, but I trudged on...as I laid my plans for the purchase of a future network appliance with voicemail capabilities. Unfortunately, it's reliability matches it's quality and it locked up my phone line at least 4 times.

Replaced it with a cheap AT&T unit today.

I read two reviews when I decided to buy one of these. I think that ifmine had worked, it would have been great. Unfortunately, it hangs upwhile playing the outgoing message. The user interface is very complicated as well. An answering machine that doesn't answer isn't very useful, no matter how many features it has. I'm returning mine.

It has many excellent features such as 56 minute recording time, 5 voice mail boxes, timer control on outgoing announcements, remote access, 2-way recording, call breakthrough, ... and plus 2-year warranty. We love it very much.