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Title: defective materials
Review: Bought a used GE Atlinks 25898GE3-A. The phone seems to be well designed except for one critical issue. The top and right side control buttons on the base unit do not work. Pressing the day & time set buttons or the message play & volume buttons results in no activity or tactile feel. Being an electrical design engineer, I dissassembled the base to find that the plastic buttons once had rubber cushions between them and the actual electronic snap switches. This is a common practice in consumer electronic products. The rubber cushions had completely decomposed into a black sticky goo. Apparently, the buttons' rubber cushions were molded from a vastly inferior material! This failure mode results in the phone base being little more than a charging cradle for the cordless handset since you cannot set the day and time or play messages on the base unit for the answering machine. This does not speak well for the "world quality" of GE Atlinks consumer products.
