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D**0
Great Customer Service
I bought this device to set up a permeant home phone system via a cell phone. I bought a old cell phone (Samsung Epic) off Ebay for $20, added a new line to my cell plan, ported my old landline number, and back feed it threw my existing house phone wires (wires totally disconnected from the Landline phone company). Now I have my main phone that has 2 cordless handsets, my office phone, basement phone and garage phone all feed by the one cell phone and Cell2Jack. I turned the ringers off on all phones except the Main and cordless phones, as you can hear them ring and announce the caller ID threw out the house.I program the old Ebay phone with my contacts so names show up and are announced (landline has to have this feature). Then I stored the phone and Cell2Jack away, out of sight out of mind...The part I was most impressed about is the Customer Service. I had a couple issues I had questions about, listed below, so I emailed [email protected] at 6:30am and they reply back in 15 minutes with the answers. I sent them a thankyou email back to them couple days later at 2:30am on a Sunday morning and they replied back to it in minutes (no it was not a auto reply).My 2 issues were:1. The incoming sound was great, but the outgoing sound was "tinny" or "distanced" and "Hoarse". They said to make a phone call and after you have made connection turn the Bluetooth volume down to 25%, you only need to do this one time and it will be good for future calls. It now sound normal of both ends of the phone call.2. I would enter in a phone number to call but then it would take 10 to 15 seconds before it would dial the number. Their answer was, you need to dial the complete number with area code included and then the call is dialed immediately, if you dial a number using 7 digits (123-4567) then it will wait 10 seconds before dialing as it is thinking you are not done entering numbers yet.I would recommend this device...
L**Y
LOVE LOVE LOVE
Love this thing! When my cable company more than tripled the rate for my VoIP line, I decided to port it over to my cell phone, since everybody had my home # and only a select few had my fairly new cell #. This was a simple setup as long as you watch the video - I found the guide they sent with the unit to be unclear. Once connected, it works great! I have a Uniden set of 3 cordless handsets and connected the Cell2Jack to the Uniden main base station. Now I can answer calls to my cell phone on any of the Uniden handsets located throughout my home. There's a momentary delay between the call coming into my cell phone before ringing the Uniden handsets - and I also found that I have to give it a couple of seconds after I pick up the handset before my caller can hear me. I've also noticed that while checking my cellular carrier's voicemail messages from one of my Uniden handsets, the carrier's system did not recognize any keypad entries. I found a work-around: I could use my cellphone's keypad to hit "1" to listen to a message, for example, in order for the keypad's tones to be recognized. In one of the other review's I read here, the customer indicated that he was unable to use his home phone with Cell2Jack on conference calls - I'm wondering if it's the same issue, because dialing into a conference bridge requires entering a conference code, etc. - he might want to try using they keypad on his cell phone while using his home handset on the conference call. Despite these minor quirks, it is super convenient to be able to pick up the phone in my kitchen to answer a call, rather than either running to wherever I left my cell phone, or worse, having to carry it on my person even in my own home!
I**E
Not a full landline replacement, but still worth a look!
Before I get on with the entire review, understand that this is not a 100% fantastic landline replacement. If you want that, go for an OBI box. I don’t have one personally, but from what I understand, that will serve much better as a complete landline replacement, though it takes a bit more to set it up well. That being said, the Cell2jack is not a bad device. Read on if you’re still interested… (heads-up: this is not a short review)I was going to get an OBI, but I don’t currently have direct access to an ethernet connection. While I’m sure I could find a wi-fi to ethernet adapter of sorts these days, I also wanted to be able to use a landline phone with the same cell number I currently have, as well as my cell phone. (I’m a geek I guess; that’s my only reasoning for this) In searching for devices this could be accomplished with, this was the cheapest one available. I must say, it works surprisingly well.It’s a breeze to connect it to your cell phone, and you don’t have to have a smartphone; as long as your phone has Bluetooth, you’re set. This is definitely a fantastic solution if you aren’t good with technology because of the ease of setup. If it doesn’t connect, try again.Once connected, you can make and receive calls, just like with a standard landline. It even generates enough power to ring the electromechanical double gong ringer in a Western Electric 2500 set – amazing! Note that when you answer calls, you will need to wait about 2 seconds (or until your cellphone stops ringing) for the call to be connected. The quality is not bad, actually. I have also checked the quality of outgoing audio from the phone, and that is good, too. The quality of outgoing and incoming audio is not going to be quite as good as a digital phoneline (Verizon FiOS, Charter Spectrum, OBI with Google Voice, etc.), or a POTS line, but the quality is still better than I thought it would be. This is coming from someone who cannot deal with low quality audio! Of course, the quality is limited by cellphone audio quality…Now, a big reason I say this isn’t a 100% fantastic landline replacement, is because while you can take another call while you’re in a call, you can’t create a 3-way call with the landline phone. You will need to have your cellphone at hand. Personally, I can’t vouch for the caller ID support, smartphone assistant support, or the ability to control certain smart appliances throughout the home, but others report success with the latter two. No word on others’ caller ID experience. I will update the review when I am able to tell how well caller ID works, if it works at all.In short, I can definitely recommend this device if you’re not tech savvy and still want to be able to use your corded and cordless phones. It’s also good if you just want to mess around with your old phones, or if you just want to be able to use your home/office phones with your existing cellphone number; Just note that there are better landline replacements out there. Don’t get me wrong, though; this is not a bad gadget to have. I suppose this’ll work with vintage answering machines as well…I’ll update this review once I find out!
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