AT&T CL2940 Corded Phone with Speakerphone, Extra-Large Tilt Display/Buttons, Caller ID/Call Waiting and Audio Assist, Black

I needed a hands free desk phone with mute. The tilted display is outstanding and a major improvement. This allows the local area code to be defaulted so you only have to dial 7 numbers locally, which is nice. Built in caller ID. Excellent quality and does everything expected.

Update: 5/15/20 - After using this phone for a year, I have raised my overall rating to 5 stars!! This is not a fancy phone, but it gets the job done well at a very low cost. Mount it correctly and you will have a great phone with lots of features, a display that you can easily read from 6 feet away, and sound quality that is excellent. All I really needed was a caller ID display on a phone in my shop. We get about 8 or 10 robo calls a day, and I just wanted to be able to screen calls without running to another room to see a caller ID. This phone is great for that. The display is clear and the quality of the audio is pretty good. I would have given the phone 5 stars, but the quality of the audio on the speaker phone is not good. Yes, you can tell what someone is saying, but the speakerphone audio quality is poor. If the quality was better, this would have been a 5-star review, but then this would likely have been a $60 to $100 phone. This phone was what I needed. Update 3/3/19: I forgot to mention that the phone mounts very well on a wall. It has the standard two pin spacing slots on the rear for a wall plate. If you look at the side view photos submitted by people that say the phone does not wall mount, you can see that they are using only one of the two available mounting slots. If the instructions are followed, there is no problem using a wall mount.

I bought this phone when my ancient desk 30-year old AT&T desk phone started having problems. Seeing the photos of the CL2940, I liked the large alpha-numeric display. But, once I set up the phone, my biggest problem with the phone is the display. Yes, it is large, but it is not lighted, and the photos online and on the box are not a true representation of the actual display. There letter and number characters don't stand out. When in caller ID mode or stored phone numbers mode, the letters and numbers do not stand out against the background LCD segments. None of the 4 contrast settings makes much of a difference. Of course, the lack of a light means this phone can only be used in lighted room; it's not suitable for a bedroom or other dimly lit space. I'm using mine on my computer desk on the right of the mouse pad. My fluorescent desk lamp is attached to the left side the desk, and the phone's display is barely visible unless I pick up the phone and move it closer to the lamp. This may not be a problem for other people, but you should know about it before you decide to purchase the phone. I'm pretty good at setting up gizmos, but I was stumped by the step for entering " Home area code" and then a few "Local area codes". Even the detailed user manual (which you need to download from ATT), doesn't make it clear what this is for. I finally left the "Home area code" blank, and entered our county's 3-digit area code as the "Local area code". It works.

Great basic phone. Attaches to a landline.

This phone is perfect. It is being used at my house as a bedroom landline. I like everything about it. The display screen is easy to read. The ringer is pleasant to hear—not an annoying ringtone.

This phone does not have an answering function. The screen cannot be backlit, making it difficult for seniors to see. Screen does not tilt up all the way. Handset volume is excellent. Other features work well.

This is a speakphone that is great for a home office. It uses the "old time" phone jack plug. I plugged into my internet modem box as my service package includes a VoIP landline and it worked immediately. Speaker is clear plenty loud for me, a middle age male, set in the middle volume range. I recently used it for a condo board meeting for some people who called in, board members all commented it was easier to hear than the iphone we had been using. It also has large text and numbers if your reading glasses are not in reach of the phone (... for us folks of a certain age) I use it for meetings for those "work from home" days: it is far better for long meetings than the earbud I was using on my cell and sound quality is better than the cell. The earbud would hurt my ear after about 30 minutes so this is a better option for me. The lit mute and speaker on lights are handy for conference calls. Entering numbers into the directory was straightforward and the speed/ directory dial works fast and easy. Although some of the better sound is likely due to the VoIP quality and not the phone itself, it does a better job at filling the room with sound than any cell speaker I have used. If you do conference call meetings in your office, you will like this phone - plus you can look stuff up on the cell without all of those handling noises!

I have had one of these for several years and it works fine. I recently bought another for a different room in my home and discovered that its internal clock function loses time, many minutes per day. Figuring that it was a defect in my new purchase, I returned the phone, requesting a replacement. The replacement behaved the same way! Then, I saw what was happening: With each incoming call, the phone's clock display would lose a minute. The more calls that came in, the more it would lose. This is clearly a design defect. Doesn't the factory test their embedded firmware changes before they release them to the field? My older copy of this phone works fine. Don't buy this phone until the factory corrects this design problem. Too bad that there's no way to know when that will occur. I am returning the replacement for my recent purchase and will choose an alternative phone. C'mon AT&T, you can do better than this. Update: I purchased a similar phone, an RCA model 1113. The RCA phone has a built-in clock function, but no means for the user to set the date/time. With incoming calls, the RCA sets its date/time with data sent as part of the incoming call's caller ID information - there's no user interaction with this. Apparently, my local provider (Cox, via VoIP) has their network clock mis-adjusted, 11 minutes slow, as displayed on the RCA phone. It could be (this is speculation) that the AT&T phones were incrementally adjusting themselves to this incorrect network clock reference. I didn't keep my recent AT&T phones (original and replacement) long enough to determine whether they would cease to lose time once they aligned themselves with this incorrect network reference, but it could very well be the case. If new phones use this mechanism, their instructions should include a description of this process, and a disclaimer that if the network clock is wrong, the phone will display the incorrect time. This feature is apparently supposed to be clever, but there can be unintended consequences.