Hi Kim, Wow, a Magic Jack is better than an iPhone in quality? I used to have one and found it was horrible. Maybe they improved it a lot, but at the time I couldn't even dial numbers like for inputting an account number and when I bought some international minutes and tried to make a call to a friend in Germany he couldn't hear me at all. I called him back on Skype and it was like he was sitting in my head. Everytime I want to make a longer call I use the headset that comes with the iPhone and find the call quality is very good at least 9 out of 10 calls, sometimes it's not, but it's so rare that it's not an issue just as sometimes on Skype the quality is not so good, but most of the time its excellent.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kimberly thurman Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone I really do not love talking on a cell phone due to the sound quality. For this reason, I have a Magic Jack, which has its own set of quirks, but works well most of the time. For the price of less than $2 a month, who can argue, especially since now you don't even have to have it plugged into a computer, just the router. I love my iPhone, but don't love having long phone conversations on it. I do appreciate the thread on this subject, as I had wondered about these cordless phones that double as bluetooth handsets. On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:12 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: > Hi Shelley, Andy and others, > > You wouldn't be able to use your iPhone to make another call while you > are talking on the cordless and if the call came in on your iPhone. > That would be like talking on a Bluetooth headset and using the iPhone > itself to make another call. The call is still on your iPhone and is > using up airtime, the cordless phone is nothing but a Bluetooth > handset in this case. It's like those cordless phones you can get > which in addition to being connected to your landline are also > connected to your router and allow you to answer and make Skype calls. > > As for your question, Tara, in my opinion there is no real advantage > in such phones except that you can leave your iPhone lying around or > plug it in and still walk around while you make a call or answer a > call. I'd rather keep my iPhone in my pocket or on my belt, that way I > can answer a call just the same, I can use SIRI to make a call, > quickly set a timer when I'm in the kitchen or immediately get an > incoming text message. Maybe Shelley can answer this, but I doubt you > can listen to a text message on the cordless phone and I'm not sure if > you can activate SIRI with it. I haven't had a landline at my house > for 3 years or so and find it very convenient. One other thing to keep > in mind with so many wireless devices nowadays is that the more you > have the greater the chance for the various signals to interfere with each other. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
