I would not recommend the V-tech phone with answering machine, Can't hear very well with the phones. Hard to retrive the answering machine calls, very hard to erase the old messages on the phone. Have erased calls several times only to find sometime down the road they would pop back up.Kind of scary. The round button the retrieve calls from answering machine very hard to use. Sometimes when you go to listen it would say skipping call, or even deleting call. Not the easiest phones to use either. Very hard to hear what the caller is saying to you.