Casio PhoneMate Introduces TI-310, Integrated All-Digital Answering Machine for Value-Conscious Users.TORRANCE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 18, 1998-- $40 TAD With Telephone Delivers Advanced Message Management for Users Seeking to Step Up to Digital -- and Keep Things Simple Targeting value-conscious users from recent college grads to households interested in moving up to digital technology, Casio PhoneMate Inc. Tuesday announced the TI-310, an integrated, easy-to-use all-digital telephone answering device (TAD). Relying on a space-saving wall-mount design, the TI-310 packages a telephone and digital answering machine with a full 10 minutes of recording time. The TI-310 is designed for users who prefer the clarity and privacy of a corded phone over a cordless cord·less adj. Having no cord, usually using batteries as a source of power: a cordless telephone. cord . The TI-310's digital TAD features improved sound quality and incorporates Casio PhoneMate's Advanced Message Management, which provides selective save and erase, skip and repeat, plus Instant Access to messages for greater playback control PBC (Playback Control) allows you to play Video CDs interactively by following the menu on the TV screen. [Category:Video storage]] than tape-based units. To eliminate mechanical components and increase reliability, greetings and incoming messages and memos are recorded on a digital chip. "The TI-310 is perfect for those value-conscious consumers who nonetheless want to step up to all-digital recording," said Stephen Knuth, president, Casio PhoneMate. "For less than $40, consumers can get a full-featured telephone and answering machine with the convenience and flexibility of digital technology, including features typically found on higher-end products." The TI-310's telephone component provides 10-number autodial, flash, redial In telecommunication, an automatic redial is a service feature that allows the user to dial, by depressing a single key or a few keys, the most recent telephone number dialed at that instrument. , pause and hold buttons conveniently located on the phone base. The TAD includes a voice time and day stamp on incoming messages and memos, along with an extensive remote menu, which enables users to play/pause, replay, save, erase, skip backward and forward Adv. 1. backward and forward - moving from one place to another and back again; "he traveled back and forth between Los Angeles and New York"; "the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner"; "the old man just sat on the porch and rocked back and forth all , and repeat all messages from most touch-tone phones, including cellular phones. Rounding out the TI-310 are auto-extension disconnect disconnect - SCSI reconnect , which immediately stops the recording of messages when a call is answered from an extension phone; ring select with tollsaver, which eliminates toll charges by recognizing whether new messages have been received before the unit answers the call; and two visual indicators, one alerting users to new and saved messages, the other signaling low battery status. The TI-310 will be available in the third quarter at specialty retail, consumer electronic stores and other retail outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → nationwide for a suggested retail price of $39.95. About Casio PhoneMate Founded in 1968, Casio PhoneMate is a leader in the development and design of telecommunications products for home, home/office and small business consumers. The company has consistently introduced industry "firsts," including one of the first commercially available telephone answering devices (TAD), the first TAD with integrated cordless telephone A cordless telephone or portable telephone is a telephone with a wireless handset which communicates via radio waves with a base station connected to a fixed telephone line (POTS) and can only be operated near (typically within 100 meters or 328 ft from) its base station , the first implementation of synthesized syn·the·sized adj. 1. Relating to or being an instrument whose sound is modified or augmented by a synthesizer. 2. Relating to or being compositions or a composition performed on synthesizers or synthesized instruments. voice prompting A recorded message that is played by auto attendants, interactive voice response (IVR) systems, message-on-hold systems and other voice processing tools. The "prompt" is a request to input some data; a recording that does not ask for feedback is more properly called a voice "message." and time/day stamp, the first all-digital TAD, the first cordless telephone with Call Waiting Caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. display, the first combination telephone answering device to let users check their electronic mail and, with Modem Monitor, the first technology that prevents the telephone from interrupting an online session or a fax transmission. Based in Torrance, Casio PhoneMate continues to pioneer high-quality, reliable and cost-effective communications solutions.
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