Swatch TDA03-2US Digital Answering Machine (Blue Bean)

Amazon.com Review
The Swatch TDA03 digital answering machine is sleek and simple, with features that are remarkably easy to learn. Its plug-and-play design combined with voice-guided instructions make setup a breeze. Plus, choosing a digital answering machine means you'll have no more messy tapes to rewind or replace, and you'll enjoy the improved sound quality that many digital devices provide.

The TDA03 can store two separate outgoing messages up to 60 seconds. Pressing the OGM1 button plays either your voice or a prerecorded prompt that tells callers to leave a message at the tone. The OGM2 button will activate an alternate message, such as "the office is closed from 12 to 1 for lunch," and does not permit the caller to leave a message.

Using its programmable date/time stamp, the TDA03 can automatically record the day and time that each message was received. It also features up to 18 minutes of digital recording time for incoming messages at up to 2 minutes per individual call. In our tests, the sound quality was good for both incoming and outgoing messages. However, the recording microphone is subject to background noise and hiss, and we had to stand no more than about 6 inches from the machine in a room with no background noise to get the best recording.

With the TDA03's remote-inquiry function, you can check messages, switch your mailbox on and off, or record updated outgoing messages. Setting up the remote-access code is easy, and a handy wallet-size card reminds you of frequently used options.

With a well-chosen set of features and very good sound quality, the Swatch Record TDA03 helps organize your home or office and stay in touch, no matter where your busy life takes you. --Megan Dugan

Pros:

Remote-inquiry function
Records up to 18 minutes of digital messages
Convenient 10-digit display
Day and time stamp for every call

Cons:

Outgoing message subject to background noise and hiss

Product Description:
Swatch Record is a fully digital answering machine. Fully digital means that incoming as well as outgoing messages are recorded on a microprocessor. It also means that accessing your messages are easier than ever before! You can simply jump from one message to the other and erase selected messages regardless of the order in which they were recorded.With the call screening function you can hear who is calling. Then it is up to you if you accept the call or not. If you want know who called while you were not at home Swatch Record can be accessed remotely via touch tone with your three digit PIN code.If someone is home and does not answer the phone, you can let them know it is you by using your personal three-digit breakthrough (VIP) code and an acoustic signal alerts that someone important is calling. No answering machine without a telephone and no Swatch Record without Swatch Cordless. Alongside the fully digital answering machine, the Swatch Twinphone is the perfect match.

Swatch TDA03-2US Digital Answering Machine (Blue Bean)

Average customer rating:

Looks Great but Does it work?
Total Waste of Money.
Swatch Blue Bean
Swatch Blue Bean
Reliable, but poorly designed

Swatch TDA03-2US Digital Answering Machine (Blue Bean)

Manufacturer: Swatch
ProductGroup: CE
Binding: Electronics

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AT&T 435 Caller ID (Dove Gray)

Product Features:

Digital answering machine with high sample rate
Up to 18 minutes of recording time
Day and time stamp and voice-guided operation
2-way recording
Fast message playback

ASIN: B00002EPZ6

Product Description

Swatch Record is a fully digital answering machine. Fully digital means that incoming as well as outgoing messages are recorded on a microprocessor. It also means that accessing your messages are easier than ever before! You can simply jump from one message to the other and erase selected messages regardless of the order in which they were recorded.With the call screening function you can hear who is calling. Then it is up to you if you accept the call or not. If you want know who called while you were not at home Swatch Record can be accessed remotely via touch tone with your three digit PIN code.If someone is home and does not answer the phone, you can let them know it is you by using your personal three-digit breakthrough (VIP) code and an acoustic signal alerts that someone important is calling. No answering machine without a telephone and no Swatch Record without Swatch Cordless. Alongside the fully digital answering machine, the Swatch Twinphone is the perfect match.

Amazon.com Review

The Swatch TDA03 digital answering machine is sleek and simple, with features that are remarkably easy to learn. Its plug-and-play design combined with voice-guided instructions make setup a breeze. Plus, choosing a digital answering machine means you'll have no more messy tapes to rewind or replace, and you'll enjoy the improved sound quality that many digital devices provide.

With a well-chosen set of features and very good sound quality, the Swatch Record TDA03 helps organize your home or office and stay in touch, no matter where your busy life takes you. --Megan Dugan

Pros:

Remote-inquiry function
Records up to 18 minutes of digital messages
Convenient 10-digit display
Day and time stamp for every call

Cons:

Outgoing message subject to background noise and hiss

Customer Reviews:

Looks Great but Does it work?.......2002-02-07

This answering machine has two great advantages over alot of other ones: it is cute and it is small. Unfortunately the good news ends there.

Answering machines have to do two things: record messages and play them back. This one does record messages and it does play them back -- at least I think that is what it recorded. The sound quality is so bad the messages are almost impossible to decipher. After 6 months of wanting to rip it from the wall, I finally did just that and tossed it in the garbage. I replaced it with an AT&T version and I couldn't be happier. If it is cute you want, cut out the picture and hang it over your phone. It'll work about as well as the real item.

Total Waste of Money........2001-12-26

Wish I had a zero star option.
I got the first one shipped and the battery compartment
screw had a blunt head. Returned it for a new one.
Volume control know kept having loose contact and would
break the voice, and had to keep jiggling it.
Finally, after 3 months, One day, went dead. No CPR
nothing would help. I thought I should give a newbie
a try. I am going back to panasonic and the sony's. I know
they may have issues, or a hickup here and there. But to
go totally dead on you.

I am amazed Amazon carries this Piece of S***.
Save yourself the trouble. Ditch it.

Sun

Swatch Blue Bean.......2001-10-10

I new the minute I saw it I had to had to have it. I am a fan of blue, so that was the eye catcher. The price wasn't bad either. After I got it 'hooked up' and set it to working with my own message, I was thrilled. I had previously had a machine for about 10 yrs., so when it 'died' Amazon was the only place for me esp. being on the net. Anyway, it seemed to be working fine, until I tried to replay the important message I had, to my disappointment it wouldn't do that. Then I ran into the problem of not being able to hear the messages very loudly. But over all it ain't so bad.

Swatch Blue Bean.......2001-10-10

I new the minute I saw it I had to had to have it. I am a fan of blue, so that was the eye catcher. The price wasn't bad either. After I got it 'hooked up' and set it to working with my own message, I was thrilled. I had previously had a Radio Shack machine for about 10 yrs., so when it 'died' Amazon was the only place for me esp. being on the net. Anyway, it seemed to be working fine, until I tried to replay the important message I had, to my disappointment it wouldn't do that. Then I ran into the problem of not being able to hear the messages very loudly. But over all it ain't so bad.

Reliable, but poorly designed.......2001-08-09

I've had mine for about 5 months. It serves me reliably, but I've cursed at it a number of times because I think its user interface (e.g. what happens when you press the buttons, and how do you do a certain simple operation) was very poorly designed. It just takes me much longer to do what I have to with this machine than with another digital answering machine I've worked with. For example, to listen to old archived messages, one has to push the "play" button and hold.... it.... down.... for... @#!... eaons.... OK 3 seconds, but much, much too long for something this simple.

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