A Cell Socket for Other Phones?

edstromp asks: "So I just heard about this neat device that lets you plug your cellphone into your home phone(s): CellSocket by Global Garden Group is one, but it only works on Nokia 5100's and 6100's. I am trying to convince my wife that we don't need a land line anymore (we both have cellphones), and I really think this would be the ticket. When you are home you can drop your cell into the cradle, and then all your home phone's will ring instead of your cell when someone calls your cell phone. Has anyone used one, and does anyone know if there are similar devices for other cellphones?"

Comments

Why not just go the whole VoIP deal.

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

We are using VoIP service from Vonage. We don't have a land line at all anymore and can have a area code anywhere in the world if we want. Currently we have in New York and Florida so that we can get local calls from all of our family, and all our toll calls are local as well. IE we pay 40 bucks in the north east and get unlimited toll and long distance with our family having just local calls to us. They send e-mail for your voice messages, and are I hear about to compress your voicemails into mp3 for email. You get to see all you incoming and outgoing call on the web. Everyting was just what we where looking for. Christ I sound like a commercial...

We are planning on going to Cali or Col. for a contract job and just need to pack up our Cisco adapter and plug it in there. It does not care what network your on as long as it gets a dhcp address from somewhere.

Only words of caution that I have is that is done not work well behind a software router. Any of the cheap hardware routers for broadband work fine so far. Hell I have even taken the thing down to florida and used it on a dialup network so I could make free calls for 2 weeks while I was down there.

Anyway, not to sound like a comercial but it is a very cool way to save some money on your phone bill.

www.vonage.com

Enjoy,

Re:Why not just go the whole VoIP deal.

[Neck_of_the_Woods]

Quality to land lines is the same, no one I call can tell the difference.

I had a lot of droped calls at first going though a software proxy(ISA). Once I striped it out of the picture everything worked great. I have used it though a linksys, dlink, cisco, and one other little no name brand dsl router I can't remember at a friends house.

We love it, although the only drawback is if your broadband goes down so does your phone. Alas that has not happend in over 8 months of use.

Just to catch a couple of other questions I see coming. It has about a 33k stream from what I can tell and does not mess with anything else on your network. I could tell you the ports but that would just take the fun out of it. You can use a poor man's router set up if you like.

What else...you really can't tell any differnce in this and a land line. Dial tone, call waiting, call blocking, called id...we use it with our normal phone. Any phone that plugs into a wall will work with it. I can't think of anyting else, if you have a question about it post it here I will try to answer it to the best of my knowledge from using the service.

Amazon link?

[cybermace5]

I would think that, if you really wanted people to know anything about the device, you would have linked to cellsocket.com.