Wall Mount Phone-Landline..one that mounts properly

[Kraniac]

LyleH wrote:
I bought an AT&T Design Line corded Telephone 146 that I still use - must be quite old but still looks new. I do not have it wall mounted - It has Pulse and Tone setting, and the volume can be loud but clear.

The keypad is on the base unit - the corded handset is not heavy at all. This link is to a unit by Advanced American Telephone that looks identical, and the link includes the PDF Manual that shows the wall mount back of the phone. Looks to me like there are a number of similar AT&T 146 phones available. LyleH

https://www.amazon.com/146-DesignLine-Te..._1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535248700&sr=8-1&keywords=att+146#customerReviews

Thanks folks..the old touch tone beige was tempting..btw

I ordered one of the above recommended by LyleH..we'll see..the mounting setup was what did it..Thanks, LyleH

[Pat]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=hal]
If it were me, I'd go for an old fashioned rotary phone with 'property of ATT' on the bottom of it. That should work with the existing mounts.

Won’t work with the phone switches, might not even ring. They turned off most interrupt dial switches a few decades ago.
Out 1960s rotary phone worked just fine until we ditched the landline last year. 8 billion robo calls coupled with that wake the dead ringer was too much. GTE/Verizon/Frontier.

[JoeH]

DeusxMac wrote:
miley-signs003:

I was looking for a similar thing a few years ago - cordless wall phone for land line - and could not find any manufacture selling anything that "hung" on the wall like previous corded models.

They have "wall mounting" holders, but they all seem to need to sit out several inches from the wall.

The base station for the Uniden wireless phones I have mounts securely on the old AT&T wall mount in my kitchen. The wireless handsets look very similar to the vtech one pictured here. Never tried mounting the charging stands for those headsets on a wall, just set them up on a table. The base station's hardest is wired.

[RAMd®d]

I have cordless phones, but have a third-party cordless phone, too.

Cell service at home is a bit iff, and in the event of a power failure, most cordless phones won't function.

Panasonic and a few other models do have versions that will use the phone in the base cradle to power the cradle so the other cordless units will function for a few hours, depending on use.

I had an old Sony phone that had a battery backup in the base.

I won't upgrade my cordless for a battery backup, but I do keep a wall mount phone.

That Amazon phone it practically 'vintage'. But no CID is a deal breaker for me, and a review says the ringer isn't adjustable, another deal breaker. I shut the ringers off on all but one phone, and without knowing if surgery is easy, I'd pass.

[GGD]

RAMd®d wrote:
Panasonic and a few other models do have versions that will use the phone in the base cradle to power the cradle so the other cordless units will function for a few hours, depending on use.

My Panasonic has a set of rechargeable batteries in the base station that will keep it alive for about 90 minutes. If the power is out for longer than that you can replace them with standard alkaline batteries for another 90 minutes.

[RAMd®d]

My Panasonic has a set of rechargeable batteries in the base station that will keep it alive for about 90 minutes. If the power is out for longer than that you can replace them with standard alkaline batteries for another 90 minutes.

A very nice feature.

I put a system in as described above in my other post. I wonder if the handset uses AA batteries as some newer cordless phones do. That would be the next closest thing to your setup.