GE 29869GE2

Very few standalone answering machines are being manufactured, let alone rated by professional reviewers. Owner reviews indicate the highest satisfaction for the GE 29869GE2 digital answering machine. Users who like the GE 29869GE2 say it's cheaper in the long run than voicemail and offers 40 minutes of storage compared with about 15 minutes on most machines. Many owner reviews say the sound quality is reasonably good, though certainly far from perfect. There's also a programmable security code and a battery backup so you won't lose messages if electric service is interrupted.

We found no professional reviews of the GE 29869GE2. We found the best information at Amazon.com, which has about ten times as many owner reviews as any other source, about 100. But the ten or so reviews at Epinions.com are worth a look because there is some helpful discussion of the GE 29869GE2's interference with DSL. We found the highest overall scores from a small sampling of owner reviews at Buy.com.