5/22/2005
Uniden Bluetooth landline phone
This looks pretty cool. Uniden has a 5.8GHz cordless phone with a color display and USB and Bluetooth capabilities:
Does anyone have one or tried it out? How does it work?
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OOOOO! That does look cool, I was wondering when someone else would try putting bluetooth in a landline phone. Olympia made a phone a while back with bluetooth, but since it wasn’t Mac compatible, I never touched it.
Olympia Bluetooth landline phone
I’ll have to look into this one…
This phone is just not ready for prime time. Sound quality sucks, the blue tooth doesn’t do advanced pairing so there is a huge delay between answering a call and hearing it in the head set (about 5 seconds). I purchased two units and took them back in three days.
It’s a nice idea, terrible phone. I have tried it with two different bluetooh headsets, a Jabra and a Motorola, and both get static whenever the person on the other end speaks, as well as a tinny kind of sound. Walking anywhere outside the immediate vicinity of the phone causes a pulsing hum in the phone or the headset. It has no indicator for phone company provided voicemail pulse or FSK tones, so you never know when you have a message waiting unless you use the phone’s built-in answering machine. And because it’s a flip-phone, the convenience you have come to expect from a landline phone is gone. Finally, they loaded it up with useless features like a calendar, which is not remotely necessary on a home or office phone. I have a computer for that. I’m returning this one.