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1. united states: san diego
answering machine. beeps. records message. can hear it either near the machine or by hitting the screen button on the handset of the phone.

Yep - we still have one of those, and I had one in my apartment, too. I know lots of people with answering machines at home, still.

Yes and I'm in the UK - bought it a year ago.

I'm in Canada and yes, it's the kind that records a taped message and you can hear who is speaking while it records. Darn thing is maybe 15 years old and still ticking.

Not that it actually gets any use, becasue I'm always home to answer, but still...

Yes, in the US. (I usually keep the ringer off unless I'm expecting a particular call, and let my own voice on the machine be the first signal that a call's coming in; voicemail wouldn't work for that.)

I live in the US. We have one, and it came as part of a fairly new set of phones, too.

Yeppers, we've got one at home. It's the old school large clunky kind with the two regular-sized cassette tapes. A friend of the family was getting rid of it and offered it to us. We figured that we might as well use it instead of paying for voicemail. Lots of clicking but useful for screening out telemarketers and crank calls as you can hear people leaving messages in real-time.

Canada :)

Yes, and I am in Canada. It is the type of answering machine that is part of the phone, which is also a mutant fax machine and has multiple handsets - one on the phone itself, and several cordless ones that sit on rechargeable units and are scattered throughout the house.

You can't hear the message being left unless you are near the main unit; if you're in a room with only the handset, you don't hear the message, but you do hear the phone ring and if you're quick enough you can see who is calling on the call display.

Answering machines on both the home line and the business line. And yes, we can hear the caller's voice when they leave a message. Use it to screen calls.

We have an all-in-one. No tape, just a digital recording device. We can hear it or turn it to answer silently, and we use it to screen calls. We're in the US (Indiana)

I found that I was becoming to much of a "screener" when I owned the You Can Hear the Message type of units, so I went with a service that keeps the message for me. It has the ability to email three different email addresses should I want to know that there is/are message(s) waiting for me; I am able to listen to those messages online or download them to listen. Am also able to call my home phone number to access the messages. USA here :)

We haven't had a land line at home for years. Cell phone only, so no. But my parents and aunts and uncles still have the answering machines that can be overheard.

I don't own a home phone because I move around too much (the woes of college students? ha) but my mother does and has owned the same machine for..oh...10+ years now. She says she likes being able to come home and see the red light, it makes her feel loved (I'm 80% certain she's joking)

Answering machine? Yes. Location? US. We have DSL service, which means we have to have a land line. So the answering machine will be with us for years yet.

Adrianne

I do - but we don't use it - we use the voice-mail supplied by our phone provider.

I still have one at my home phone. Most of my friends call me on my cell, though, so it doesn't get much use.

We have recently upgraded from an answering machine with a tape to one that has a chip in it.

I have a digital machine that can be overheard, and I live in the US. :D

Had one a looooooooooooooooong time ago. The voice mail option has made it so much easier to ignore telemarketers and bill collectors though, so not anymore. :P

Live in the US and have a digital answering machine. Loathe Voicemail!

I live in PA, and yes, we have one of those. We screen all our calls too, so we tend to amass a collection of messages that go "Hi, this is So-And-So--" and the click of someone picking it up when the caller identifies themselves as someone we care to speak with.

I do. Still has the voice that came on it. If I'm quick enough, I can even look at the phone and see who's calling to decide whether to let my machine get it or not.

Nope, never had one, or even seen one. I live in Finland.

In the United States. Records messages on a chip. Could be overheard - provided the volume was turned up (ahem, sometimes I've turned it down too low to hear). :-)

If I had voice mail, I'd never remember to check it.

Answering machine? Yes. We can hear messages being left if we happen to be home and chose not to answer the phone. The playback can be heard by whoever's in the room with the machine, and maybe in the next room too. The machine emits a beep if there's a message/messages that have not yet been played back.

And we have only the land line. No cell phones here.

I live in Chicago, IL USA and do not have an answering machine. I rely on Ameritech / SBC / AT & T / whatever-they're-calling-themselves-this-week's service. I've had it for nearly 10 years, got it when I still accessed the Internet via dial-up.

My parents have an answering machine. I don't have a landline, since I live in student accommodation.

(my parents are in the USA, btw!)

Live in Oregon (still one of the States last time I checked); have an answering machine.

Yes -- North Dakota.

U.S. - Yes. I don't like voice mail, as I find it easier to ignore/forget about. Don't ask me how long it takes to get around to listening to, let alone responding to, VMs on my cell phone...

No actual physical in the house machine in years. Best benefit to voice mail, IMO, is much easier remote access. For what very little it's worth...

Yes, I have an answering machine built into my phone that records on a chip. You can hear the person leaving the message (I screen due to %*($)&^ telemarketers) and again upon playback.

I used to use a tape answering machine that was a seperate machine from the phone and the sound quaility was MUCH better.

I live in the States.