Another feature I have read about but not tried, is using a cell phone as the connection for the traditional land-line-type handsets. In other words, you would appear to have a land-line, but it actually uses a cell connection (either a dedicated one or one you supply in the form of your cell phone). Yet another feature is the ability of the land-line base station to use WiFi to connect to your Internet router and use VoIP (most smart phones already have this capability).
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> SIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) On Jan 7, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Owen (thread-hijacker) - I get the gist of what you are describing here. Are you saying that new landline phones come with Bluetooth interfaces in them to allow them to act as headsets for your cell phone? Or is something more elaborate going on? It certainly sounds handy if it works. - Steve Yes, that sounds right .. here are details: We have a somewhat new .. within the last year .. vtech wireless - landline phone with 3 remote handsets plus base station. So basically the landline plugs into the base station and you immediately have several phones throughout the house. While checking out the market .. we were replacing an older vtech system which we very much liked .. she noticed an interesting feature: a bluetooth connection to cell phone handsets. Ours allows two cell phones. So we got that model to play with. So when it came, Dede "paired" her very basic "feature" phone with the vtech and it worked! When she received a cell phone call, it would also give a special ring and icon on all the vtech handsets, and allow her to answer her cell phone on any of the vtechs. Wow! I'm not sure if it's simply like a bluetooth headset for our phones due to additional integration into the vtech phones. But yes, I guess you could think of this as a wireless remote headset for your cell phone with a few additional telephone features. I believe you can also "transfer" a call from your cell phone to the vtech handsets: i.e. if you come into the house using your cell phone, you can continue the conversation on the vtechs. I finally switched over too, so both of us are able to keep our cell phones where they get good coverage, within bluetooth distance of the base station, and not have to run to the cell phone to answer a call. This appears to be becoming a standard feature of the newer wireless home phone systems. I was amazed that it would work but bingo, it does! -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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