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73 of 74 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
More excellent features than you'd ever guess, May 12, 2003
This machine does everything I ever wanted, and more:Have you ever had to wade through 20 saved messages,
one by one, on other machines, just to get to the
very last one, which you wanted to hear again? Panasonic's KX-TM150B lets you go immediately
to the very last message, if you want,
and then work your way backwards -- I've never
seen so handy a feature on any other machine. Many other machines force you to play an entire
message all over again if you missed something
that you wanted to write down, but this machine
has controls that make it behave just like a
cassette tape machine -- hold down "rewind"
and it backspaces, release the button
and you hear the backspaced section again;
fast-forward plays at 2X normal speed;
you can also just "pause" and resume again
(to catch up as you take notes, for example). If you've ever been frustrated by slow operations
on other brands (e.g. Sony), compounded by long,
droning announcements that you can't skip,
you'll like the fact that every operation here
is instantaneous, and you can always interrupt
any operation to do another instead. The 50-memory Caller ID matches up with each recorded
message, and lets you dial back automatically at any time. Did you know that you can edit the
saved Caller-ID numbers to adjust for different local
dialing rules (and up to two different local area codes)? During any live phone conversation,
if someone is about to tell you some information that you'll
need to write down, don't reach for a pencil -- just press
"2-way record," let the caller talk, and re-play it later. The number of rings before answering can be set to
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or Toll-Saver(2/4) The voice menus and prompts are very intelligent,
both for direct and remote operations. I've installed four of these in different places,
and I've found the sound quality to be as uniformly good
as any consumer digital answering machine I've ever seen
in this price range -- perfectly clear speech, far better sound
than previous models, so when I read other reviews complaining
of bad sound, I wonder whether they bought damaged or refurbished
goods, or had they poured cola into it, perhaps? Flash memory saves messages indefinitely, even if AC
power fails, and these Panasonics even remember the date
and accurate time for power failures up to five minutes. I have experienced over two years of flawless performance
from four different units (two KX-TM100B without Caller ID
two KX-TM150B with caller ID); good job as usual, Panasonic!
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