Buy Cortelco Kellogg 2500 Tel-Flash/M-W Desk Mount Phone with Cords Ash & Vol CntrlCortelco Kellogg 2500 Tel-Flash/M-W Desk Mount Phone with Cords Ash & Vol Cntrl Product Description:
- 9-foot handset cord
- Ringer volume control
- Fully modular
- Five-year limited warranty
- Classic cord design
Product Description
250044-VBA-27FC Offshore Desk W Flash & Message Waiting-ASH
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Good old-fashioned telephone
By Barbara J. Nies
My new phone has enough heft to stay where I put it and to resist when I try to step too far away. The receiver has substance to hang onto. The sizeable push-buttons make mis-dialing difficult. It's a phone. It doesn't sing, dance, or forgive my sins. It just rings clearly, holds a connection, and carries voices normally. True, it doesn't have any new-fangled bells and whistles - the ones I actually want I've included in my answering machine specs. It's just a phone - that I don't have to worry about again. Thanks.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Good idea, poorly executed
By Ari Goldstein
We bought three of these units for my grandmother, and two of them died within the first two months, and the third died within the following month. They really do not have an easy return policy.The original version of this phone in the 70's was excellent, manufactured by ATT. This knockoff is poorly built.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.The Classic
By John Walthall
The model 2500 may be the greatest phone ever made: well built, does just what it should. This one adds a flash button, 90v lamp and the receiver has a volume control. It's just heavy enough, the receiver is exactly the right size and shape, it's reasonably compact and still built like a tank! It doesn't have fancy features but hey! That's actually a good thing! Read on.That makes this phone perfect for those of us who still have analogue PABX/Centrex services. We use features like hold and transfer by flashing or dialing * or # and entering a code. When the phone has features baked in they either don't work at all with our system or half-work in confusing ways. The perfect example was the 'office' phone we got with a 'hold' switch. This caused all sorts of problems since all it did was cut the mic and disable the switch-hook so you could hang-up without disconnecting. It didn't communicate to the switch what was going on or clear the line. People would press 'hold' then try to dial a second call and get a busy signal or would go to a different extension and dial the code to retrieve the call and get a busy signal, all because the hold was being executed in the phone itself.This is the same phone as the one with the big red 'beehive' neon lamp on the top that you sometimes still see in hospitals and hotels the only differences being the size, location and color (this one is orange). On a side note this light almost certainly won't work with consumer voice mail, that usually requires a proprietary 3rd party unit)The flash button also pretty much does just what you think it would and helps to solve the problem of... ah... less technically astute people hanging up on callers when they try to do a transfer/hold/conference/etc with the switch-hook.Last but not least the phone has an honest-to-god mechanical bell ringer, not an annoying electronic 'beeper' that you can't hear from the next room.The only possible substantive criticism is that the volume control wheel makes very little difference, I can just barely hear the difference. This may not be a problem unless you are hard-of-hearing because the sound reproduction is very good on this unit. Also to be honest 'sand' (I've never seen ash that color!) is not exactly my favorite color. I much prefer the black one but they don't seem to make that any more and I've never found one with both flash and MW light.
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