From: bfhoward@pacbell.net
Subject: Feature phones, caller ID etc.
Date: 1997/12/09
Message-ID: #1/1
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
Reply-To: bfhoward@pacbell.net
Newsgroups: fido.phones


I got some serious questions.
Why is it that feature phones have these cheap speakers and sound
crappy?
They spend $1,000's on stereos, but use a 50 cent speaker?

How come the only caller id that could dial out was taken off the
market?
I liked those, you see the number just enter dial to dial back!
Of the competing 20 some models I checked no one else had it. The one
that had it was only $8.00 with 100 memories, and the inferior ones were
50 memories and costed $30+. 

I guess the good guys some times don't win.

Has anyone seen a TAD system that can activate manually after the line
is picked up? I am like a full time operator for my teen son. I hate it,
I anwer about 10 calls a day for him on weekends. I heard some high
level executive shoot down that idea, as it would make selling a 2nd
line harder. What they really should have is a manually activated
answering machine. I would just say, he's not in, please leave your msg
on the machine, here it is beep....
Bob