AT&T CL2940 Corded Single Line Speakerphone Caller ID/Call Waiting with Large Tilt Display

The product was as advertised - a serviceable desk phone at a reasonable price. Transaction via a third party, diddlydeals.com, was seamless and phone arrived when promised.

Perfect phone for elderly (and others too)! Over the past few years we have bought three of these phones - One for the kitchen, one for the La-Z-Boy chair, and one for the bedroom) for our elderly father who uses hearing aids and has lost his sight, and he uses the speakerphone feature and the speed dial feature, and they work great! For some speed dial numbers, we have attached tactile dots or bumps to certain numbers so that he knows which buttons to press.

I have the previous version CL2939 and find they changed the quality of the speaker phone on this the CL2940. -At first the sound went off and on skipping some words. It has improved. The older version also can be louder w/o distortion. This one has push buttons to change the volume, the older one has a slider. Please go back to the old technology for the speaker part. I am keeping the one I bought in the store. I had two others (one bought online and one also bought in store) and they both had the same problem with the speaker that the older one does not even though I used the same cords. I know it is the 2940 changes. It is a great phone and especially enjoyable for the low cost. Other reviews complain about the info screen being too light but do not mention whether or not they adjusted it. Make sure you read the instruction booklet about the features and how to adjust them. I hope someone at ATT sees this and returns the speaker design back to what it was in the CL2939!.

I misunderstood one review that stated no batteries were needed. This isn't true. 4 Alkaline AA batteries must be inserted to power the many features of the phone. It displays numbers that called you, a directory you insert and dials entries easily. The display is not bright and not easily read. Still, the phone is a good buy - providing it lasts for several years.

Setting it up was rather easy, but I set the viewer at the max which was a 4 and it wasn't dark enough. Even with a light on I still have to get close to read the information. For anyone with sight problems it wouldn't work well for them. The ringer could be louder. I have it set to the max, but anyone with hearing problems might not hear it, unless they are in same room as the phone. Other than those two items the phone works just fine.

I was disappointed that the display is not backlit like my similar AT&T phone with answering system, and is much harder to read in dim light. This phone also requires batteries instead of a power cord like my other phone. These items are not readily evident at all in the on-line advertisement for this phone. I would not have ordered this phone if I had known it didn't have a lighted display, so I am not happy with it.

Bought this phone to hang on the kitchen wall. It's not mountable. The handset kept falling off. Also, it's hard to find a long coil cord that fits into the phone. The number buttons are big and the ringer is loud. It has amplification but if it's set on the highest amplification, you'll hear a whistling sound. The caller ID is big but does not have a back light. In a dark room, you can't see who is calling. It would have been a good phone to mount because the caller ID can be seen from a distance but it's not mountable.

Nice phone. Caller ID is large. Not a lot of extraneous buttons. Not sure why 1/3 of the display is used for the model number. Would be better if the display was backlit. Even with the tilting display and large lettering, it is hard to read. It needs batteries instead of plugging into an outlet. (not sure if it said that in the specifications) I would recommend it as long as the person I recommended it to knows about my comments. I noticed now that a non-Wal-Mart retailer is listed on Wal-Mart website has the same phone that is backlit. Oops on my part.

Do not order from this "3rd party-Walmart" vendor. You CAN NOT return it to Walmart stores. You have to pay the 3rd part vendor (Diddly) 20% in order to return. This is because they already know you will be dissatisfied. In product description Diddly purposefully failed to disclose NO AC cord, AND batteries required for use. I will write another review to let you know if they even take the product back and reimburse some of the money I wasted.

I kept having problems with it, I've only had it less than a month, it doesn't always work, I even had to hook up my old phone for a couple of days, but hook it back up, it does not work properly, thinking about sending it back, I just hate to go through the trouble, very disappointed.