AT&T BL102-3 DECT 6.0 3-Handset Cordless Phone for Home with Answering Machine, Call Blocking, Caller ID Announcer, Audio Assist, Intercom, and Unsurpassed Range, Silver/Black

Same phone as my mom's 20plus year one that I have replaced because the print on buttons had worn off from years of use. The only difference being this one has an answering machine and ability to choose spam blocking. This was a perfect new replacement because the buttons she uses the most are exactly the same location. Batteries needed to he installed but came with phone. We saved her old phones new batteries for backup batteries. Power Cord was a different design so that needed to be swapped. Hopefully it lasts as long as last one. Fairly easy to set up. Same size as her old phone based. Looks nice and buttons easy to read.

We got tired of getting so many robo-calls every day and were frustrated with receiving the same calls over and over. I bought this set of AT&T phones that has an easy-to use 2-step blocking feature and it seems to be working as evidenced by the drastically reduced numbers of junk calls we receive. The phones we had before had a blocking feature but it was too complicated to use so that's why we bought these new phones. Also they have a larger and easier to read screen with larger lighted buttons. I'm 70 years old and these phones have made my life a bit easier. A bit pricey but worth the money.

I think I like this phone. It's dense with function. Af first I thought it had no intercom (between the 4 phones in the set we bought) but, as with other pluses you find it "as you travel" through the manual. First thing to do is download the manual to your desktop...believe me you will use it! The booklets (2 actually) that comes with the phone only scratches the surface. Even the digital version isn't as good as it could be. But read you must and you will find answers and fixes. You can store hundreds of names in the directory and it will also hold Call ID names. If it's still usable (as ours was) you can leave one of your old phones plugged in with the answering machine turned off and it will work as an additional location. One thing that's not great is it won't stand up out of the charger...can't imagine why they designed it that way, such an obvious flaw. But...it does have intercom, it does have 1,000 block call ability (YAY), it does have audio assist, it does have handset locator. I'm hoping that they award me a PH.D once I figure out all the options and how to get them on the smart call blocker (2nd booklet), but it's only day two. And yes, the phones do communicate; so although I had to type in all the numbers (there's got to be a better way to do that!) when I was done the other three phones had the directory. I had done all this off-line but plugged them all into wall sockets so that the batteries would charge (it recommends a full day or so). Once they were charged all functions were usable off line. I think it's good value for the money, we loved our Panasonic but it only blocked 250 calls and then I'd delete them all and re-enter as they came back in. These days my credit card, car warranty, "vote for me", "hello grandma" calls are plentiful. Now ... if only my kids would call!Update 6 weeks in use: Buyer beware! I had my Panasonic phone system for 7 years, nary a problem until the sound started to get blurry. It didn't owe me anything and I was sorry to see it die(ish). But...it didn't have the call blocking I needed and AT & T's system works miraculously in blocking calls...really great. But the phones are "lightweight", they don't stand up and only six weeks after I spent hours programming in all my ID numbers and setting up the system one of the four phones lost most of the digital characters on the screen (time, caller # etc). So I called AT & T who walked me through everything I had already done (remove battery and replace 2 minutes later), they declared it a broken phone. But since I bought it from Amazon whose warranty is 4 weeks (!!) they recommended I mail it back to Texas and they would send me a brand new unit (1 phone). The cost to do that was mine (about 15 bucks). Or call Amazon and see if they would send me ONE phone. I began with Amazon who offered to replace the entire system if I mailed it back (mailing cost provided), they would refund my money and I could buy a new system, but they would not provide one phone. This meant I would have REPROGRAM all my #'s and reset the funky blocking system. They did give me an option of $25 credit on my account (I took it), but now I'm wondering if this cheaply made phone group will need replacing in one year or less. I'm not sending the phone back to AT & T as I have no evidence that this problem won't pop up on another of the four extensions and the whole thing will cost as much as I paid for the phone system. (I hooked up my old Panasonic which still works even with the At & T as long as I don't engage the answering machine on the Panasonic). The dead-ish AT & T now lives in my closet shoe box where all wires go to die. At & T got the blocking app perfect, wish they made better hardware. If you find another provider with good blocking make sure the phones are well designed (if you can, certainly they should stand up on a table with out having to be in the charger...that's why they're supposedly "wireless" ! Sorry AT & T I give you a C on this system and don't recommend it.

Excellent phones that work great. The volume is loud enough for hard of hearing people which is what we needed. We spread them out over a large house and there have been no problems connecting. They have a feature to block all calls that are not in the contact list which is exactly what we needed. Highly recommend.

I purchased this to replace a Panasonic telephone and this is perfect! The best feature which when I purchased, I didn't realize that it has smart blocker. This thing is amazing. All those annoying calls are gone now. My phone was ringing at least 4 times a day with robo calls or just hang ups. It's awesome! Love this feature and also it allows the person who is calling you to state their name so you know who is calling. Would totally recommend.

I bought this phone set to obtain the "quiet mode" capability which my current system does not have. The phone itself appears to work fine but the quiet mode does not. I tested it out during the day by setting it at a couple of hours and it seems to work fine, but when I set it for 9 or 10 hours overnight it does not work. In the morning when it should still be quiet, it isn't. I have not yet seen it go through the night and be on in the morning. Last night I set it at 10pm for 10 hours. I saw it at 3:30am and the quiet mode was off. I reset for another 4 hours but at 7pm it was off again. I bought this phone because I am woken up regularly between 5am and 7am but spam calls with spoofed numbers. This seemed a perfect solution. Maybe there's an answer as to why it's re-setting, but there's no information in the manual or on-line that helps.