A Horrible Fax Machine!

Advantages: ... it's a fax machine
Disadvantages: EVERYTHING

... As can be seen from the picture on Ciao, the machine has a phone receiver on top, and just under a control panel with digits and other buttons for the fax/photocopier funcions, a little two lines monitor and nothing more. Aside from the ugly look that doesn't possibly match with any existing furniture, it's a space waster, too big to be placed anywhere but on an office desk (surely not in a house). I'm not even listing too many details because it's a machine to be avoided and I'll write down very soon why. WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT THIS MACHINE? Mmmh... mmmhh... I guess it's a fax machine that is often in offer for a good price but aside from that and the fact that it can also do photocopies, I could only find bad points. THE PROBLEMS I noticed annoying problems from the start. The machine has two different entries...

EVIT 29.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Olivetti FAX-LAB 100

eFax.com - Definately the best free fax service

Advantages: Free fax number, no need to have a dedicated fax line
Disadvantages: None

...other features such as page zoom, document flip etc etc. I have been using this service for two years now and have received hundred's of faxes and have recommended this site to many of my friends and business associates. They also give you the option to open an account with them and make a deposit with your credit card and then you can also send your faxes to them by e-mail and they will fax to the respective recipititants. These faxes will be charged at the USA phone rates. You can check their rates for various countries and you will certainly find some which are cheaper than sending it from the UK....

vinodgm 06.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of eFax

No Fax Machine - No Problem

Advantages: Free - Easy - Quick - Reliable
Disadvantages: Requires a 380k download to read faxes

...thermal paper to worry about! The fax can be zoomed in and out, rotated (why do some people insist of faxing stuff upside down?) and stored as thumbnails for easy filing. The service is completely free for 0870 numbers, although, for a monthly fee of $9.95 you can have a local rate 0845 fax number instead with the added ability to send email to fax anywhere in the world for a few cents a minute. Sending faxes to your free eFax is cheaper than sending to many stand-alone fax machines as the modem speed is faster. eFax can also be set up (optionally) as a telephone answering machine – now quaintly known as “voice mail”. There are obvious advantages to using this free service: ! No need to buy a fax machine ! No need to free up a line for incoming faxes ! No cost ! Receive faxes anywhere that has Internet...

john.sw 14.12.2000 (13.06.2001) · Read review
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Review of eFax

eFax.com - best service, best price

Advantages: Great service... and still FREE!
Disadvantages: Need to use a proprietary viewer program

...Faxes may be on the way out but they?re not gone yet. If you want to receive the occasional fax but don't want to waste money on a fax machine that will stand idle for months then the solution is fax to email. How does fax to email work? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The basic idea is that a service provider (in this case eFax.com) supplies a telephone number for your incoming faxes. These are received by eFax and then forwarded to you as an email attachment. As well as the obvious advantage of not needing to buy a fax machine this also means that you don?t need to pay for a dedicated fax line and you can receive your faxes anywhere you can collect your emails (almost ? see a bit later). And what does that cost? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ eFax.com offer a number of differently priced services depending on the telephone number required...

pauljm 14.03.2001 (03.01.2005) · Read review
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Review of eFax

Bob on the Phone For You!

Advantages: Fun and learning
Disadvantages: short cord

...Vtech - Bob The Builder Play Phone?.. This was yet another one of Jack's presents from Christmas this year and yet again one that truly is a good one. Jack's uncle gave this to him but I think if we had paid for it ourselves we would have spent around £15 as this is the standard price at most places I have seen it. The toy is basically a talking play telephone that has three different modes of play. These are: Can you learn it? Can you learn it? and Can you find it? The telephone has lovely large chunky buttons that light up when pressed or when the telephone calls them out. There is a yellow telephone receiver that can be picked up and replaced quite easily. The only downside with the receiver it that the cord is such a short length that it is impossible to have the toy on the floor and to lift the receiver to the ear. I...

newby2 11.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of VTech Bob's Talking Telephone

An average fax/modem

Advantages: Faster page downloads
Disadvantages: user manual not very good

...Information given on the box: - 56Kbps download speed - Specifications according to the latest modem standards V.92 - Send and receive faxes - For use with portable computers V.92 benefits: - Modem on hold: take phone-calls while online - Quick connect: Faster internet connection - New V.44 compression: downloads internet pages up to double speed Key benefits: Modem: - data compression - reliable error correction - completely compatible - CTR-21 European approved Fax: - Adjustable fax pages - send in groups - can be programmed beforehand - telephone/fax lists - print faxes on your computer Package contains: - PC Card V.92 Fax/modem - Fax and data communication software - Telephone cable and plug - Windows driver System requirements: - IBM PC or compatible (Pentium 166MMX) with PCMCIA port - 16MB RAM...

minichar 17.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sitecom Fax / Modem

Meet Charlie the Chatter Phone

Advantages: Loads Of Play Value
Disadvantages: None

...Meet Charlie the Chatter Phone~Fisher price Pull along Chatter Phone I think most of us remember or owned a Fisher Price chatter phone when we were younger. I loved mine and I decided this would be really good for the role play corner as well as being a great baby toy so bought one for my setting online at Amazon. ~The Look~ Charlie the chatter phone is made of plastic and he has four red wheels and a blue base his upper body is white and he has a turn able rainbow dial with numbers 0-9 on it these make a ringing sound when you turn the dial , just like the old phones did. Charlie has a really friendly smiling face and his eyes move up and down when you pull him along by his string. The cord is blue and short on the handset but this is for safety to stop a small child getting it tangled round their neck. ~Play Value...

debmercury 27.04.2009 (03.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone

Free Fax Machine

Advantages: Free, convenient
Disadvantages: None experienced

...Yes, its really true. If you have an e-mail account you can also benefit from a fax facility. All you need to do is sign up with www.yac.com. They will give you a free number - starting 0709 - (and which can also be used for voice calls and an answering service) which can be used for faxes. Your received faxes are sent on to you by e-mail and appear in a .tif file for you to save or print. The cost of sending faxes is not too high - about the same as calling a mobile phone so it is not prohibitive. One of the real beauties is that your fax is available 24/7/365 - no need for an extra line! If you have a fax driver for your PC's modem and a scanner you can completely dispense with the need for a fax machine. I have used the system for several months now and have found it to be excellent. Is this the end...

Kristian 06.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of eFax

Very Reliable Brother

Advantages: Cordless phone, quick document scanning
Disadvantages: small recording time of answering machine

...The Brother FAX-1560 is an inkjet fax machine with an integrated telephone as well as an answering machine. The use of inkjet technology means that your received fax documents will be of high quality, but will not be waterproof like all inkjet technology using devices. Other technologies are also put into practice on this fax machine, one technological advantage is the transmission of super fine details and the auto-correctness of errors that occur during transmission. Another advantage is the Fax machines ability to reduce long documents to A4 size. The on-board modem delivers a 14,400 bps(bits per second) transfer speed, which converts to 14 kbps (kilo-bits per second). Which does not seem a lot, but is sufficient enough to transfer the required data. This is because all fax machines as well as this one convert documents into...

yassarikhan786 25.03.2008 (02.04.2008) · Read review
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Review of Brother FAX-1560

Ring ring ring and play away who is on the phone today

Advantages: Lots of different sounds and melodies
Disadvantages: Not really a soft phone as the name suggests

...Recently my little girl (7 months) is into absolutely everything, she seems to have a real thing for our sky remote and our mobile phones so I decided to find her a toy that was a similar size to the TV buttons so she could play with that instead of constantly turning the TV over and pressing the mute button etc. After having a look around the new Toys R Us store in my area I came across the Vtech Soft Singing Phone, as soon as I saw it I thought it would be perfect because it's a phone & a similar size to the TV buttons. What's in the box? All you get in the box is the toy itself & a set of instructions which tell you how to fit the batteries & what functions the toy has. The Phone: There are two versions of this phone one is bright pink and purple which was great for my little girl and the other is yellow, blue and red so ideal...

soutram 01.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of VTech Pink Soft Singing Phone