Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
It's just physically more comfortable to talk on my cordless. No, you can't use your cell to make another call while on the cordless. But I was hoping to at least get back to my home screen to do other things. So basicly, all you're doing is using your cordless phone as a cell without getting sucked into the expense of a home connect. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
Hi, for physical comfort I use the retro handset. It's shaped like the older style telephones from the 80s and even has a curly cord. You simply connect it to your phone and talk. It has buttons on the inside for volume and for flash to pick up an incoming call. I don't know if they make the Bluetooth ones, but this one which is corded can be purchased from Amazon, or locally from Walgreens, or Target. -- Raul A. Gallegos Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. - Yogi Berra Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rau47 On 9/4/2012 4:03 AM, Shelley Corcoran wrote: It's just physically more comfortable to talk on my cordless. No, you can't use your cell to make another call while on the cordless. But I was hoping to at least get back to my home screen to do other things. So basicly, all you're doing is using your cordless phone as a cell without getting sucked into the expense of a home connect. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
I don't think I'd buy a cordless for just for this feature, but if I'm going to get a cordless phone anyway, I could see where this feature might be something I'd want to have. On 04/09/12 00:12, 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 -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
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: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimberly thurman Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
Hi Sieghard, I was thinking about trying linking my cell to a cordless for several reasons. When looking at cordless phones in general, I saw the Panasonic has some very good clarity of speech improvements. I am hearing impaired and even with my hearing aids have a difficult time with speech recognition on my Iphone 4s. Take care, Lynda If the sound was very good, I might have considered getting rid of our house phone. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 9:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Hi Linda and Andy, I don't own such a cordless phone and haven't used one. However, I also have looked at such cordless phones and as far as I am concerned it is a bit of a gadget which to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I can just as easily answer my iPhone instead of a cordless phone. I guess one argument might be that maybe you have your iPhone plugged in and with such a cordless phone you could still answer your iPhone. However, as Andy pointed out, the connection between the cordless phone and the iPhone is just Bluetooth and no different from using any Bluetooth headset which allows you to answer your phone or, for that matter, the Jambox will let you do so except you only have speakerphone. I have used Bluetooth headsets and very good ones like the Jambox ERA which is considered to be one of the best single-ear headsets for answering calls. The fact is that even with a very good Bluetooth headset you will not get the same voice quality as you would with a wired headset. Now consider that the Jawbone ERA is $129.99 and many of these cordless phones are in that same price range, often even cheaper, sometimes maybe a bit more. I then wonder what would give me better sound quality, a dedicated Bluetooth headset made by a company that specializes in that or a cordless phone which even without the mobile phone connection feature costs already half as much as the dedicated headset. In my opinion the sound quality on such a device can only be worse than on a good Bluetooth headset. Lastly, the connection is also subject to the limitations of range associated with Bluetooth. Not a big deal if you have an apartment or smaller house, but in a larger home or one where you have multiple floors it may not be the best. Keep in mind that this is my own reasoning and opinion on this and maybe I am totally wrong and some of the cordless phones that connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth are actually fantastic. I would recommend that you find the model you want to buy and then either look it up on Amazon where you can usually find lots of reviews or google it and look for reviews. If you decide to buy such a phone I look forward to your review on the list. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
Hi Linda, I understand why you'd want to get the best clarity you can, but I somehow think that any Bluetooth connection only degrades the quality further. I may be wrong, but this has certainly be my experience with any Bluetooth headset I have versus a wired headset. After all, the signal coming from the iPhone is what it is and if you have a cordless phone connected via Bluetooth it simply reproduces what it receives and it would be logical to assume that the best case would be that it would reproduce the signal perfectly which means you would get the same quality, any losses and it would be worse. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Lynda Ingraham Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 8:08 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Hi Sieghard, I was thinking about trying linking my cell to a cordless for several reasons. When looking at cordless phones in general, I saw the Panasonic has some very good clarity of speech improvements. I am hearing impaired and even with my hearing aids have a difficult time with speech recognition on my Iphone 4s. Take care, Lynda If the sound was very good, I might have considered getting rid of our house phone. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 9:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Hi Linda and Andy, I don't own such a cordless phone and haven't used one. However, I also have looked at such cordless phones and as far as I am concerned it is a bit of a gadget which to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I can just as easily answer my iPhone instead of a cordless phone. I guess one argument might be that maybe you have your iPhone plugged in and with such a cordless phone you could still answer your iPhone. However, as Andy pointed out, the connection between the cordless phone and the iPhone is just Bluetooth and no different from using any Bluetooth headset which allows you to answer your phone or, for that matter, the Jambox will let you do so except you only have speakerphone. I have used Bluetooth headsets and very good ones like the Jambox ERA which is considered to be one of the best single-ear headsets for answering calls. The fact is that even with a very good Bluetooth headset you will not get the same voice quality as you would with a wired headset. Now consider that the Jawbone ERA is $129.99 and many of these cordless phones are in that same price range, often even cheaper, sometimes maybe a bit more. I then wonder what would give me better sound quality, a dedicated Bluetooth headset made by a company that specializes in that or a cordless phone which even without the mobile phone connection feature costs already half as much as the dedicated headset. In my opinion the sound quality on such a device can only be worse than on a good Bluetooth headset. Lastly, the connection is also subject to the limitations of range associated with Bluetooth. Not a big deal if you have an apartment or smaller house, but in a larger home or one where you have multiple floors it may not be the best. Keep in mind that this is my own reasoning and opinion on this and maybe I am totally wrong and some of the cordless phones that connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth are actually fantastic. I would recommend that you find the model you want to buy and then either look it up on Amazon where you can usually find lots of reviews or google it and look for reviews. If you decide to buy such a phone I look forward to your review on the list. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com
Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
Hi Sieghard. I use Magic Jack with my computer, but mostly on my iPhone. I have been fortunate enough that it works for me. They came up with Magic jack plus, it hardly worked for me. I mostly use Magic Jack on my iPhone. It works very well, what works even better for VOIP calls is skype. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:53 AM Subject: RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone 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: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimberly thurman Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone
RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone
Hi Tara, Well that is good to hear, maybe I have to give it another try although I have no complaints about Skype and you of course have the option for video calls which come in handy at times when I want to identify something and of course down the road there will be a lot more Skype integration with Outlook and Windows. I always heard that Magic Jack worked better for US calls. Anyhow, most of my calls are within Canada and I have unlimited long distance and airtime so there is no reason why I should use Voip for that. Have a good day, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tara Prakash Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:27 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Hi Sieghard. I use Magic Jack with my computer, but mostly on my iPhone. I have been fortunate enough that it works for me. They came up with Magic jack plus, it hardly worked for me. I mostly use Magic Jack on my iPhone. It works very well, what works even better for VOIP calls is skype. - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:53 AM Subject: RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone 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: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimberly thurman Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone
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A lot of that depends on the speed of your internet connection and, yes, the Magic Jack connection has improved. Rarely, I will get a connection that sounds choppy, but hanging up and redialing usually fixes this. Compared to talking just over the cellular connection on the iPhone, I think it souns wonderful, and I've never had problems dialing in account numbers using the keypad on the regular cordless phone. On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: 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: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kimberly thurman Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 7:41 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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
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Hi List, I'm thinking about purchasing a cordless phone that allows you to answer your cell phone via a cordless phone. Has anyone done this? If so, how is the sound and what cordless phone system are you using? Thanks in advance, Lynda -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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I would like this info as well, because Target has some Panasonic cordless systems on sale that allow you to interface a cell phone via blue tooth. Andy -Original Message- From: Lynda Ingraham Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 10:57 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Hi List, I'm thinking about purchasing a cordless phone that allows you to answer your cell phone via a cordless phone. Has anyone done this? If so, how is the sound and what cordless phone system are you using? Thanks in advance, Lynda -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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Hi Linda and Andy, I don't own such a cordless phone and haven't used one. However, I also have looked at such cordless phones and as far as I am concerned it is a bit of a gadget which to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I can just as easily answer my iPhone instead of a cordless phone. I guess one argument might be that maybe you have your iPhone plugged in and with such a cordless phone you could still answer your iPhone. However, as Andy pointed out, the connection between the cordless phone and the iPhone is just Bluetooth and no different from using any Bluetooth headset which allows you to answer your phone or, for that matter, the Jambox will let you do so except you only have speakerphone. I have used Bluetooth headsets and very good ones like the Jambox ERA which is considered to be one of the best single-ear headsets for answering calls. The fact is that even with a very good Bluetooth headset you will not get the same voice quality as you would with a wired headset. Now consider that the Jawbone ERA is $129.99 and many of these cordless phones are in that same price range, often even cheaper, sometimes maybe a bit more. I then wonder what would give me better sound quality, a dedicated Bluetooth headset made by a company that specializes in that or a cordless phone which even without the mobile phone connection feature costs already half as much as the dedicated headset. In my opinion the sound quality on such a device can only be worse than on a good Bluetooth headset. Lastly, the connection is also subject to the limitations of range associated with Bluetooth. Not a big deal if you have an apartment or smaller house, but in a larger home or one where you have multiple floors it may not be the best. Keep in mind that this is my own reasoning and opinion on this and maybe I am totally wrong and some of the cordless phones that connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth are actually fantastic. I would recommend that you find the model you want to buy and then either look it up on Amazon where you can usually find lots of reviews or google it and look for reviews. If you decide to buy such a phone I look forward to your review on the list. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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Why not just forward your calls from your iphone to your chordless phone, that way you wouldn't have to buy one, oh, that's right, what about your text messages. Fred Olver - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 8:32 PM Subject: RE: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Hi Linda and Andy, I don't own such a cordless phone and haven't used one. However, I also have looked at such cordless phones and as far as I am concerned it is a bit of a gadget which to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I can just as easily answer my iPhone instead of a cordless phone. I guess one argument might be that maybe you have your iPhone plugged in and with such a cordless phone you could still answer your iPhone. However, as Andy pointed out, the connection between the cordless phone and the iPhone is just Bluetooth and no different from using any Bluetooth headset which allows you to answer your phone or, for that matter, the Jambox will let you do so except you only have speakerphone. I have used Bluetooth headsets and very good ones like the Jambox ERA which is considered to be one of the best single-ear headsets for answering calls. The fact is that even with a very good Bluetooth headset you will not get the same voice quality as you would with a wired headset. Now consider that the Jawbone ERA is $129.99 and many of these cordless phones are in that same price range, often even cheaper, sometimes maybe a bit more. I then wonder what would give me better sound quality, a dedicated Bluetooth headset made by a company that specializes in that or a cordless phone which even without the mobile phone connection feature costs already half as much as the dedicated headset. In my opinion the sound quality on such a device can only be worse than on a good Bluetooth headset. Lastly, the connection is also subject to the limitations of range associated with Bluetooth. Not a big deal if you have an apartment or smaller house, but in a larger home or one where you have multiple floors it may not be the best. Keep in mind that this is my own reasoning and opinion on this and maybe I am totally wrong and some of the cordless phones that connect to your cell phone via Bluetooth are actually fantastic. I would recommend that you find the model you want to buy and then either look it up on Amazon where you can usually find lots of reviews or google it and look for reviews. If you decide to buy such a phone I look forward to your review on the list. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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I have a Panasonic one with talking caller id. I'm still trying to decide what I think of it. I like the concept. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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Shelley, What is the model number please? Andy -Original Message- From: Shelley Corcoran Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 8:17 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone I have a Panasonic one with talking caller id. I'm still trying to decide what I think of it. I like the concept. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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Panasonic KX-TG76. Mine has 5 handsets. But I'm a hog that way, lol! You can get them with less. Even tonight I got caught with my cell phone in another room, so I ansered on the cordless. But while you're on the call with the cordless, you can't use your cell. If you can, I sure haven't figured it out. I was hoping to discontinue my land line, but nothing will ever beat the sound quality. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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So what is the connecting interface between cordless and iphone? Is it Bluetooth? What are the possible benefits of using a cordless than the iphone itself? - Original Message - From: Shelley Corcoran shellse...@columbus.rr.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 11:17 PM Subject: Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone I have a Panasonic one with talking caller id. I'm still trying to decide what I think of it. I like the concept. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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Thank you Shelley! Hope you and yours are doing well. Andy -Original Message- From: Shelley Corcoran Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 8:34 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Linking IPhone To Cordless Phone Panasonic KX-TG76. Mine has 5 handsets. But I'm a hog that way, lol! You can get them with less. Even tonight I got caught with my cell phone in another room, so I ansered on the cordless. But while you're on the call with the cordless, you can't use your cell. If you can, I sure haven't figured it out. I was hoping to discontinue my land line, but nothing will ever beat the sound quality. Shelley -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
