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Learning about Telephones
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Feature Phones
A
feature phone
is a standard telephone that has feature buttons in addition to the
regular 12-key dial pad. For example, there are feature phones that have
programmable auto dial buttons, last number redial buttons, hold buttons, and
built-in speakers. You can use most of the system’s dial-code features from a
feature phone, and program them onto a feature phone button. However, there are
some limitations to what these phones can do.
NOTE:
Standard phones can be used to make calls when plugged into any port of
the PARTNER Endeavor 362 processor module or 362EC expansion
module. However, standard phones will ring only when plugged into the Tip
Ring ports, which are the bottom two ports.
The capabilities of a feature phone are
in the phone itself
. For example, if you
store a number on a feature phone’s auto dial button, that number is stored
in
the
feature phone. (This is different from storing a number on a system phone’s Auto
Dial button. When you program a button on a system phone, the number is
actually stored in the control unit.) Similarly, when you press a hold button on a
feature phone, the call is held at the phone itself. (Callers will not hear the
system’s Music-On-Hold. Other phones in the system cannot see that the call is
on hold; it appears as a busy line.)
If you want to program an outside number on a feature phone’s auto dial button,
you must add a 9 and one or more pauses (if available) before each outside
number. (The “9” gets an outside line, and each pause allows a few seconds to get
an outside dial tone.)
Note that the feature phone’s last number redial button may not work for an
outside call. To redial the last number, use the system’s Last Number Redial
feature by pressing
# 0 5.