Cell to landline: Dock-N-Talk, Cellmerge, CellSocket, Celldock

I have heard a lot about the technology to use a cellphone to replace
the land line. The four names I have heard are in the subject line.
Dock-N-Talk seems the most popular at about $140 to $200 (Bluetooth).
The problem is I have not found it for sale from a recognizable source
such as Best Buy, Circuit City or even the better known on-line stores.
Also, I have seen the technology come on strong about 3 to 5 years
ago, and die somewhat in the last couple of years. I have a Motorola
E815 and fine that most of the supported phones are older models. The
E815 is supported by the Bluetooth models, but not direct connect.

Has anyone bought one of these in the last year? I can transfer my
home number to a 3rd cellphone. That would allow me to have the 2 I
presently have with Verizon and a 3rd that would be the "land line"
phone. Has anyone done this?

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"Eric Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have heard a lot about the technology to use a cellphone to replace
> the land line. The four names I have heard are in the subject line.
> Dock-N-Talk seems the most popular at about $140 to $200 (Bluetooth).
> The problem is I have not found it for sale from a recognizable source
> such as Best Buy, Circuit City or even the better known on-line stores.
> Also, I have seen the technology come on strong about 3 to 5 years
> ago, and die somewhat in the last couple of years. I have a Motorola
> E815 and fine that most of the supported phones are older models. The
> E815 is supported by the Bluetooth models, but not direct connect.
>
> Has anyone bought one of these in the last year? I can transfer my
> home number to a 3rd cellphone. That would allow me to have the 2 I
> presently have with Verizon and a 3rd that would be the "land line"
> phone. Has anyone done this?
>

I found the Dock-N-Talk cumbersome to use since you have to connect two
wires to the phone. The Cellsocket and Cellmerge have worked well, but I
don't think they have models for your phone. You just dropped the phone into
those two devices similarly to a desktop chearger and they worked. I
connect5ed the phone to the second line pair on my house wiring and use it
with a two line phone with the cell going to line 2.

I have found that the newer phones are typically not supported, which
makes me think that this idea did not really get off the ground. I
can't imagine why, but I have seen this typical trend in many hi-tech
endevors. They have a big initial spike, almost die, then start back
up slowly. Maybe this is one of them?

Thomas M. Goethe wrote:
>> >
>
> I found the Dock-N-Talk cumbersome to use since you have to connect two
> wires to the phone. The Cellsocket and Cellmerge have worked well, but I
> don't think they have models for your phone. You just dropped the phone into
> those two devices similarly to a desktop chearger and they worked. I
> connect5ed the phone to the second line pair on my house wiring and use it
> with a two line phone with the cell going to line 2.