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Desktop As a Cellphone Extension?
spaceman375 writes "Like many slashdotters, I've given up on landlines and have only a cell account. The problem: when I am home I don't want to carry my phone on my person, AND I don't want to have to run (possibly up or down stairs) to answer a call. Landlines solved this with extensions. I could go buy an xlink or other Bluetooth-to-POTS solution, but that takes money for equipment. My desktop has Bluetooth, as do my laptop and cell. All I want is a program that can use my cell's Bluetooth to make and receive calls from my Linux PC. I can do this with asterisk or related programs, but that is like buying UPS when I just need a taxi ride. Yet all I can find are programs that either use 'presence' to shift other-sourced calls to my cell, or ways to use a Bluetooth headset when receiving a call on a PC. Has anyone found a way to use their desktop to make and receive calls through their cell via Bluetooth?"
Bollocks. You can easily make calls using the phone from the computer. If a headset can do it, what makes you think a computer can't ? I can make calls with one touch from my earpiece. Or do you mean YOUR cellphone doesn't ? Get a decent phone or provider than.
The problem: when I am home I don't want to carry my phone on my person, AND I don't want to have to run (possibly up or down stairs) to answer a call.
No wonder we are nation of fucking fatsoes and pencilnecks. I don't carry my cell phone with me at home, but that doesn't stop me from running, what, 20-30 feet, to get it when it rings.
Seriously, this was a lame excuse to throw some money @ technology for the hell of it while moving one step closer to be one of those Wall-e space fatties on floating platforms. Amazing that you even call that "a problem" .