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We all use our cellphones on the go, many can’t even remove their ear from the phone but what happens when you enter your home. For many people their cellphone hits the charger and they pickup the landline. Some you you continue to use your cellphones because you have so many minutes but the majority don’t (so just bear with me). Despite the growth of cellphones, consumers prefer the better reception of their landlines, even though a landline often costs an additional $35 to $50 a month.

But that all may change as a handful of companies are introducing new home devices that get the best of both worlds, portability and reception. Connect a cellphone to the device’s docking station or via Bluetooth and all incoming calls now ring through to a cordless landline phone. You can even call out via your cellular network, taking full advantage of your minutes.

Calls are clearer because the cellphone remains stationary, located in the part of the house that gets the strongest signal, while the caller roams around using a standard cordless phone. When the user is leaving the house, the cellphone can be removed and the cordless phone reconnects to the landline network. Read on for available equipment.

Motorola’s current offering is the SD4500 series ($80 to $100 depending on features). A cellular connection is enabled when the phone is paired with a $100 docking station. The current system works with only a few Motorola cellular models. This spring, Motorola will introduce the Bluetooth-enabled C51 model. In addition to a $99 base station and answering machine, a Bluetooth adapter ($129) is to go on sale in the summer, allowing the unit to work with any Bluetooth phone.

The KH-TH102-M system ($349) from Panasonic includes a two-line base unit with answering machine plus a cordless phone.

When Uniden introduced its ELBT595 model ($200) last year, consumers were not pleased. Next year, the company will introduce a revamped model with a bigger handset, priced from $79 to $129.

For those who want only the cellular docking feature, there is no more elegant solution than Phone Labs’ Dock-N-Talk ($150). It’s a small box that plugs directly into an existing home phone. A compatible cord or Bluetooth module ($80) links the cellphone and the standard phone. When connected to the Dock-N-Talk, the home phone no longer works as a landline phone. The Dock-N-Talk offers one feature its competitors do not: dialing through the cellphone network is done just as one would dial a normal landline phone: pick up a standard handset, listen for the dial tone and dial. The company’s newest model, the Enterprise ($200), combines a full-featured desk phone with cell docking technology. The unit’s screen displays most cellphones’ phone books, as well as caller ID and other information.

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According to the Google translation, Japanese to English, this is what e-Let’s SK-ADP does. 

“When the Skype is utilized, usually connecting the headphone to the personal computer, you converse. Because of that when it comes to the point of always conversing before the personal computer, it compares with the fact that the cordless phone has generalized there is a surface which is inferior to comfort.”

With an additional translation, it means that you can use your home-based wired telephone to make calls using Skype.  Basically, the SK-ADP connects to your computer via USB, and the telephone connects to your home phone wiring and the phone.  Then you can use your regular corded or cordless phone at home to call through Skype.

Here are the translated instructions to make the USB connection:

Installation very simplicity! “Or it does, you connect ease” to the USB port of the personal computer, moduration of the telephone line and the telephone field for home it just is inserted. Because it operates with bus power connection, it can install easily even in the place where it does not have the electrical outlet.

I think it means that you plug the USB cord into the computer and the SK-ADP.  Regardless, the SK-ADP should be a best seller.

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