Connect cellphone to home phone wiring?

Just wondering if there are any gadgets that allow a cellphone to be
connected to home phone wiring.

I'd like to drop my landline, but don't want to have to carry the phone
around all day.

At 29 Aug 2007 14:42:10 +0000 Noozer wrote:
> Just wondering if there are any gadgets that allow a cellphone to
be
> connected to home phone wiring.
>
> I'd like to drop my landline, but don't want to have to carry the
phone
> around all day.

Google "Cellsocket", and "Dock n Talk" for starters. They run in the
$100-200 US range.

Being a cheapskate, I grabbed an ancient model of Cellsocket make for
the old Nokia 51xx/61xx phones of six or seven years ago for $15 on
eBay, and dusted off my old Nokia 6190. When I want "dock" to a
landline I just move my SIM from my "real" phone to the old Nokia.
(Admittedly this would be a hassle for everyday use, but I bought the
Cellsocket for emergency/temporary backup use, rather than for
permanent landline replacement.)



--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

dont.spam@me.here (Noozer) wrote in
news:OngBi.104142$rX4.83280@pd7urf2no:

> I'm really having a hard time coming up with good keywords to use
> in Google and eBay for searches. Argh!
>

Try "cell phone" and dock; it produced lots of what appear to be
reasonable hits on Google.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com

"Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
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> Just wondering if there are any gadgets that allow a cellphone to be
> connected to home phone wiring.
>
> I'd like to drop my landline, but don't want to have to carry the phone
> around all day.
>
>
Not sure I understand the desired application. How can you use a cell phone
with household copper?

We gave up our landline, but simply used an old cell phone and leave it in
one spot. And wouldn't wiring it somewhere kinda defeat the purpose?

At 30 Nov 2007 17:39:42 -0800 Mamba wrote:

> Not sure I understand the desired application. How can you use a cell
phone
> with household copper?


With a "tellular" device that Connects your home telephones to the cellphone.
This way you can use your regular cordless/corded phones as "extentions"
of your cellphone.

Very useful if your cellphone reception is good in some spots and lousy in
others.

http://www.phonelabs.com/ makes the "Dock n Talk," one such device.

> We gave up our landline, but simply used an old cell phone and leave it in
> one spot. And wouldn't wiring it somewhere kinda defeat the purpose?


Not if it's connected to every handset in the house. The cellphone stays
in one spot, and you can use it "through" the cordless phones you have
laying around unused now.

Mamba wrote:
> "Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
> news:6BfBi.103428$fJ5.17960@pd7urf1no...
>
>>Just wondering if there are any gadgets that allow a cellphone to be
>>connected to home phone wiring.

I think you mean that the you want your cell phone to be the primary
source of phone audio in the house.

I think that you could successfully attach another transmitter-receiver
to the cell phone via its earpiece (and microphone) receptacle. But I
thnk that more than one would diminish the sound and talk level.

Furthermore, the first answering must be at the cell phone.

Otherwise, one needs to devise a distribution box. I think that if you
will wait a while, some Pacific Rim manufacturer will come up with such
a box.

Maybe Sharper Image. Maybe Radio Shack... Who Knows?

Angelo Campanella