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
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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
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