What is a cordless phone? Is this like my s21 plus phone? It's cordless as well.
Well, if you live in a studio, then I suppose it's redundant to have cordless phones. But if you have a sizable living space, you can get multi-handset cordless phones that pair to mobile phones via Bluetooth and not be tethered to your mobile at all times. Or like someone said, pair it with low-cost or free VOIP service and adapter and you'll have extra calling capability.
I use Panasonic cordless phone (1 handset model) along with Linksys ATA (PAP-2T) to give corporate VOIP to those work from home. Total cost was about $50 per employee (Used ATA and got Panasonic 1 handset from Amazon Warehouse deal)
So Yes. People still use these phones but in other creative ways
Life alert is better.
LIFE ALERT official website - I've fallen and I can't get up!® http://www.lifealert.com/
"Emergency call" button (LIFE ALERT it's just one of many) must be on you all the time to be effetive. My farther-in-law tends to take it off his neck (I'm not wearing necklace, I'm not a women!). Twice he fell and did not have button on him. So now he has handset in every corner of his apartment and I placed them on the level where he can reach even when he's on the floor.
Landline is definitely not a replacement for call button, but it's another level of security.
If you have VoIP or a copper land line this is a good. I'v had this system for a few years and it works nicely. Wireless has good range and I have never had a problem receiving calls with a handset in the yard. 5 Phones allow phones to be placed in strategic location. For an example we have one next to the main entry which also has the alarm control. This system also offers call blocking which may be useful to a lot of users. I highly recommend this product.
My elderly mom. She has one in every room, all using a bluetooth connection to her flip phone. It's way more convenient (and safe) for someone like her to have a phone nearby regardless of the room she's in, and she doesn't have to have a landline bill. She likes the large display, buttons and TDD function.
Hah, I just set up a similar system for my elderly in laws who just got Fios to replace their copper line that Verizon finally killed off. The system had been in our basement the last 10 years. I was thinking to myself "I can't believe we were still using these just 10 years ago", and here I see that you can actually still buy them!
They have theirs on a little desk with a stool in the kitchen next to a calendar and notebook. It's like a museum of 1992. Solid #boomerswag
HD cell phone calls (VoLTE) are just now catching up to VOIP call quality.
The key to good quality calls is for the carrier and device on both ends to support a high-quality codec. In my experience your best chance at having good-quality calls is to have an HD voice capable cell phone (literally any current model) on the same carrier as your friends and family. I have had HD voice calls on my cell phone for years with Cricket between friends and family who are on AT&T or Verizon.
I also have a VoIP phone at home and at work, and literally the only time I every hear HD quality there is with others on the exact same network. Much smaller population.
We use an engenius durafon long range cordless phone. Range is about 1/2 mile at the cabin. There is no cell phone coverage in that area anyway.
At home we have a uniden 5.8 GHz system, with two lines. One is for the "land line" (it's actually a semi proprietary voip from fiber internet provider(sonic)), the other for a linksys ATA using future-nine voip provider for overseas cell calls. A bunch of handsets so we are always close to one.
At one point I was thinking at getting a used PABX on ebay and put phones in every rooms, or running asterix on a server and put voip phones in every room
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So Yes. People still use these phones but in other creative ways
LIFE ALERT official website - I've fallen and I can't get up!®
http://www.lifealert.c
Landline is definitely not a replacement for call button, but it's another level of security.
They have theirs on a little desk with a stool in the kitchen next to a calendar and notebook. It's like a museum of 1992. Solid #boomerswag
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What an ass!!
I also have a VoIP phone at home and at work, and literally the only time I every hear HD quality there is with others on the exact same network. Much smaller population.
We use an engenius durafon long range cordless phone. Range is about 1/2 mile at the cabin. There is no cell phone coverage in that area anyway.
At home we have a uniden 5.8 GHz system, with two lines. One is for the "land line" (it's actually a semi proprietary voip from fiber internet provider(sonic)), the other for a linksys ATA using future-nine voip provider for overseas cell calls. A bunch of handsets so we are always close to one.
At one point I was thinking at getting a used PABX on ebay and put phones in every rooms, or running asterix on a server and put voip phones in every room
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People with homes.