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Posts tagged “landline”

Can You Use the Power Coming Through a Phone Jack?

If you keep a landline around, you know that you don't need to plug a standard, corded phone into an outlet because the phone jack gives up the few volts your phone needs to work, on the telephone com...

How to Keep Your Number With Google Voice Voicemail

With more and more people switching to a cell-only household, we're starting to find tips and tricks to make our cell phones more efficient than our landlines could have ever been......

MagicJack Flying Off The Shelves, Plans Femtocell

When is the last time you used your landline? In fact, do you still have a real landline, or is it now a VoIP line, or does it come provided from your internet service provider in a handy package? A l...

Flickr Find: A Makeshift Landing Strip

We all want to have the perfect little landing strip. A convenient area by the doorway we use most with plenty of surfaces and enough storage to drop all of the day's burdens—your cell phone, iP...

The 4 Gadgets You Might Be Missing in Your Hurricane Kit

Growing up in beautiful Miami, Florida; all anybody could ever talk about at the beginning of June is hurricane season. Are you prepared? Did you stock up on plywood, water and batteries? For all our ...

Stand-Up Brit, 1950s Ericofon, Flies to the States

While we know many of you have ditched your landlines for cellphones and VoIP, those of you who still have phone jacks may be interested in the reintroduction of the Ericofon -- now called the Scandi...

Alessiphone: A Great Alternative For Those of Us Who Can't Let Go of a Landline

Even though most of us are slowly letting go of our landlines, there are still many homes who have them. Sometimes, it's just easier to have a landline. I for one have got IP phones. That being said, ...

Butler 500: A Home Phone That's More Than a Home Phone

When I think of phones, the first thing that comes to mind are cell phones. After all, it seems that many of you are cell phone only now. Maybe it's because I have so much more going on with my cell t...

Blogging Wired: Really? Toss These 5 Gadgets?

Wired has made a short list of the 5 gadgets you should throw out right now. Surprisingly, little gimmicky gizmos like memory card readers and your 50th flash drive did not make the list. Instead, Wir...

Product Re[al]view: Panasonic's Link-to-Cell

After our past post on the 'cell phones only' vs. 'landline' debate, we know that a lot of you are keeping your landlines because of bad cell phone reception in your home. Here's the answer: the Panas...

Separated at Birth? Cordless Swatch-Inspired Phone

Remember the Swatch Twin Phone? Oh man! We got one of those in 6th grade and couldn't deal with how rad it was. That was one of the biggest phone innovations since, well, phones were invented! This i...

By Next Year 1 in 5 Households Will be Wireless Only

Do you believe this statement? We do. Based on what you all have said before when asked what phone is your "home" phone and whether or not to keep the landline it doesn't seem too far off. Coming out...