AT&TTRIMLINE 210 Corded Home Phone, No AC Power Required, Improved Easy-wall-mount, Lighted Big Button Keypad, 13 SpeedDial Keys, Last Number Redial, Mute, Flash, Volume Control, Princess Phone, PINK

What I wanted1. Land-line. Living in rural Hawaii, I need both a cellular and a land-line for maximum reliability2. Long cords so I can walk & talk without having to buy extra extensions. This came with 7' of line3. Bigger keys on the keypad4. Touch-tone capable as well as pulse5. Receiver not too heavy6. Good loud ring-tone with softer options7. Really loud option for incoming voices also with softer settings8. Clear sending & receiving, no burbles or static9. Sit flat on night-table10. Simple operation11. Inexpensive: I dislike paying for unneeded optionsThe AT&T 210 is all of this and more. In addition to my essential eleven qualities, the phone offers other features:12. Lighted numbers13. Mute option14. Up to ten fast dial numbers15 Plus fast dial icons for medical, fire, and police (nice safety feature)16 Wall install (flip an insert to keep receiver in cradle for wall mount)17 Instructions are detailed and written in clear correct English18 Design is simple, attractive, nice black finish that looks new after use. Size is 9" long, 4" tall, and 3 l/2 " wide.19 The AT&T help number connects to AT&T customer service and works. I checked this out when I got the phone & just checked again.ANY USER ALERTS?* This is a simple, basic phone, not a full-featured phone that will fold the laundry and do conference calls.* Be careful! The instructions state the phone will not function well if other phones are hooked up on the same land-line. Reviewers who found the sound wasn't the best may have been using multiple phones on their land-line. If you want multiple phones and excellent sound on all, this may not be the top choice for your needs.* The base is light-weight which would not be a big issue for a wall-mount but think about location* Not actually an AT&T product made in USA. The phone is a product of a company called Advanced American Telephones licensed by AT&T to use the logo and name. The phone is manufactured in China and the customer service is by Advanced American telephones. I do not know if this could be a future issue re service or not.For what I wanted, I love this phone! This may not be for the best phone for every user's needs but it works for me: the price is right (under $10 for me including shipping), the performance good and the features are fine.

This is a land line phone model which I have used for 10 years now, and I love it. Unlike many of today's phones, it gives you reliable service. It always gives you a dial tone without any hassle, just by picking up the handset from the base. The numbers light up so you can see them easily (although see note in the next paragraph for one quirk), and you can use it even during a power outage, with no batteries ever required. Simple but very effective when your electricity is not working and you need to make phone calls that don't wear out any batteries.Only 2 cons for this phone:Con #1: Its keypad lights are brighter near the center than toward the outside of the keypad. So your #5 is always the most visible number. The numbers surrounding the 5 are the next brightest. The function buttons are not very well lit, so for example, the MUTE button is difficult to find in the dark. This is a minor inconvenience for me, and as long as I can find that #5 key, I can find anything on this phone.Con #2: Don't set this near the edge of a table where it can slide off (preferably, use the wall mount instructions to make sure this phone is very secured to the wall!), because if you let it drop to the floor often, and if it lands on the corner of the phone in a certain way, then the corner plastic of the phone can break. I have owned quite a few models of this phone for different rooms of our house; the breakage does not happen very often, and it seems to happen only if you drop the phone frequently and over a long period of time. In the 2 cases where a phone case cracked from a fall to the floor, the phones had been in use for years, and it was always the corner that cracked. The phones still worked, but I had to cover the edges with duct tape until I could buy a new phone. Nowadays, I make sure to screw these to a wall securely according to the enclosed instructions, and that has solved the problem!That said, this is still the ONLY corded land line phone that I keep in our house for power outages. I love the way it feels, it doesn't slip off my shoulder easily when I'm talking, and I like the fact that no batteries are ever required for it to work. I like the way the buttons press in such a way that it reliably dials the number you wanted. Occasionally I have tried other phones but have not liked any of them as much. And a lot of the newer models of corded land line phones are built very cheap and unreliable, compared to this AT&T model I'm reviewing which I like so much. I hope this helps.

Works fine, but don't expect it will match you 1980s phone. No added weight installed. It will follow you when you stand and walk away. Won't sit as securely on your table or counter. Your own voice sounds "tinny" as you are hearing yourself talk. I'm not expecting 30 years out of this phone, but the price is right.