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Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer?
An anonymous reader writes 'In comparison to the advanced technology in today's smart phones, the standard home phone is painfully backwards. My current setup is a Panasonic system that has 4 cordless phones over one base station. Setting the time on one phone changes the time on all the phones; however, this is not the case for the phone book. Each entry must be manually copied (pushed) to each handset. Is this as far as home phone technology has come? What I would like is a phone system that I could sync to my computer so I could update the phone book over all the units (if not sync with Address Book or Outlook), keep a log of caller IDs, or even forward me new voicemail notifications. Does anyone know if such a system exists?'
The question was also asked by someone interested in syncing his home phone with "Outlook". Since he doesn't mind wasting money on crappy email software when much better free software is available (remember, he's at home, not at work at a big corporation with an Exchange server), he shouldn't mind wasting money on long-distance charges too.