Presto! Your Desk Phone Is A Cell Phone
July 26, 2004 | bengisu
You never want to be out without your cell phone, but what happens when you get home? You leave it on the front seat of your car, park it with your keys and coins on top of the dresser, or plug it in someplace to recharge. Then it rings, and you go racing through the house looking for it before your caller gets redirected to voicemail.
There's a better way. I've been playing around with a gadget designed to let you reap the benefits of your cell plan from your home phone. Called Dock-N-Talk, it's made by a tiny company called Phone Labs Technology Co. There are about as many options as a Lego set for hooking it up, but the basic idea is that it links a regular corded or cordless phone with your cell phone to provide the best features of each.
That means that you can use a regular phone to make and receive cell-phone calls -- a great thing if you find today's tiny cell phones hard to hold or if you're worried about the radiation they give off. The system offers a nifty solution to dead zones in your house where your cell phone doesn't work. And you still have all the freebies on your cellular plan: long distance, family calls, and off-peak minutes, not to mention voice dialing and voicemail.
more: businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_31/b3894039_m (172)
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