Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:10 pm
Handsets
http://www.amazon.com/gp....8&psc=1
SO I got this when I dumped my landline and went cell only. I still wanted to not have to carry my phone around everywhere as I walked around the house.
It works, and there is no voice delay in a conversation, and very little hissing or static. Far less that I expected for a signal going from the handset at your ear, to the base unit via RF (I think), and then to your cell phone via bluetooth, and then to the cell tower via black magic.
Your cell connects to the base station automatically via bluetooth as soon as come home (one you pair them up manually, of course). And with this model, you can pair up two different phones, and give them unique ringtones so you know whose phone is getting the call. I let my wife's cell have the standard ring, and mine is Flight of the Valkyries.
It will download the address books from your phones so caller ID works better.
If you are making a call, you choose which phone it is to go through (if both are currently connected), and you can make another call over a different handset with the other phone at the same time.
Supposedly you can check your voicemail through the handsets, but I haven't gotten around to figuring that our because I don't care enough. Also, the default setting was for the handsets to chirp when a phone received a text message.... my wife gets so many of those it was driving me crazy, so I researched how to disable that, and did so.
If I still had a landline I could also plug that into the base unit as well and then have 3 phones to choose from, so that's nice.
Only slightly weird thing is that when you answer a cell call over these handsets, give it 2 seconds before you say "hello" once you turn the handset on... it's like the bluetooth needs a couple seconds to tell the cell phone to answer the call.
Anyway, this was well worth the money and is doing what I needed it to do.
http://www.amazon.com/gp....8&psc=1
SO I got this when I dumped my landline and went cell only. I still wanted to not have to carry my phone around everywhere as I walked around the house.
It works, and there is no voice delay in a conversation, and very little hissing or static. Far less that I expected for a signal going from the handset at your ear, to the base unit via RF (I think), and then to your cell phone via bluetooth, and then to the cell tower via black magic.
Your cell connects to the base station automatically via bluetooth as soon as come home (one you pair them up manually, of course). And with this model, you can pair up two different phones, and give them unique ringtones so you know whose phone is getting the call. I let my wife's cell have the standard ring, and mine is Flight of the Valkyries.
It will download the address books from your phones so caller ID works better.
If you are making a call, you choose which phone it is to go through (if both are currently connected), and you can make another call over a different handset with the other phone at the same time.
Supposedly you can check your voicemail through the handsets, but I haven't gotten around to figuring that our because I don't care enough. Also, the default setting was for the handsets to chirp when a phone received a text message.... my wife gets so many of those it was driving me crazy, so I researched how to disable that, and did so.
If I still had a landline I could also plug that into the base unit as well and then have 3 phones to choose from, so that's nice.
Only slightly weird thing is that when you answer a cell call over these handsets, give it 2 seconds before you say "hello" once you turn the handset on... it's like the bluetooth needs a couple seconds to tell the cell phone to answer the call.
Anyway, this was well worth the money and is doing what I needed it to do.