 Finding a 2-line phone with the ability of having ... Strengths: 2 line capability, portable handset good.
Weaknesses: Telephone on base unit is marginal in quality.
Summary: Finding a 2-line phone with the ability of having a different outgoing message for each line was a real problem. I previously purchased the Uniden TRU 8866 (I gave it 5 stars elsewhere on pricegrabber.com) for different reasons, but after I purchased the Uniden TRU 8866, my wife spilled red wine on our 10-year old AT&T phone that had a 2-line answering machine. The wine killed the phone! It is too bad that my Uniden TRU 8866 doesn't have an answering machine as I would not have purchased this phone from AT&T.
As previously noted, finding a 2-line phone with a separate greeting for both lines was a problem! However, after awhile, I changed my focus to finding such a machine and decided quality had to be secondary (not my usual style, but I didn't have much of a choice). I was ambivalent about having a separate portable handset as my Uniden serves that purpose. There are several machines out there with multi-line capability but they usually require the same outgoing announcement for each line. In my house, I have a small business and want a separate greeting for those calls and a different greeting for our personal calls. I couldn't believe how hard this was to find.
In any event, this AT&T phone has an excellent portable handset with good features including the ability to listen to messages received, but the answering machine is marginal including occasionally cutting people off when leaving a message and people tell me when using the base-wired phone, it sounds "tinny" to the caller. However, because it has the features I need, I guess I am keeping the phone, poor voice quality and all. I need to remember that when using the wired phone on the base, whomever I am talking with may complain about the voice quality and suggest I use a different phone!
The moral of the story? Don't have wine near a working telephone as 10 year-old technology may be better than a telephone manufactured in 2005!
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