But it works by the laptop microphone and speakers without any device plugged into the phone jack …take it from me, I took MagicJack to the EU and no phone and it worked fine just like that!!
-----Original Message----- From: Marcio [mailto:m...@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 12:49 AM Subject: Re: MagicJack: a VoIP question I am not sure how this can be done. In the Magic Jack devise there is an outlet for the phone line. Marcio -----Original Message----- >From: rleesimon <rleesi...@gmail.com> >Sent: Jan 2, 2010 5:30 PM >To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >Subject: Re: [CGUYS] MagicJack: a VoIP question > >If you plug in magic jack on computer, internal mic and spkr are all you >need (I have IBM Thinkpad). Needs no fone. Dial on screen with mouse or >via phonebook. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Fred Holmes [mailto:f...@his.com] >Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:21 PM >Subject: Re: MagicJack: a VoIP question > >The most modern phone you have that works on POTS is a "corded handset". I >suspect one could also use a cordless handset, if one were to plug the base >station into the MagicJack. (just as the base station is plugged into the >RJ-11 wall outlet the same way that a corded handset is plugged into a wall >outlet.) You just couldn't use a cordless handset by itself, without the >base station. What the information is telling you is that the MagicJack >does _not_ include its own handset. Nor does it use a "headset" (like Skype >does). Nor does it use a USB speakerphone (like is available for Skype). >It uses a POTS telephone, connected by the customary cord with an RJ-11 plug >on the end. Anything that electrically looks like a POTS telephone >connected with an RJ-11 plug should work. Dunno if it would accept pulse >dialing, haven't tried it. But so much calling requires DTMF signalling for >navigating "menus" that pulse dialing has limited use today anyway. > >"Corded handset" and "rotary [pulsed] dial" are two completely different >concepts. > >Fred Holmes > >At 06:39 PM 1/1/2010, Robert Carroll wrote: >>(1) Information about MagicJack is appreciated. It seems from the CU >description that a corded handset is needed -- I might be able to find >buried in a closet an old rotary-dial phone for MagicJack (if I decide to >get same) since all my land-line phones are cordless. Can MagicJack >understand pulse dialing? > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************