On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H
wrote:

I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!

How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone
base?
Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home
phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards
that I do not understand)

No, it's done with Bluetooth. The cell phone has to be within transmitting distance for the
panasonic to pick it up. Don't know what the max range is. The two phones have to connect with each
other. Now when my cell phone rings, all the land line phones ring also...if my cell phone is close
enough. If I'm at the golf course, I wouldn't care about the land line ringing anyway.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 13:31:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400,
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H
wrote:

I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!

How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone
base?
Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home
phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards
that I do not understand)


===

I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most
modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone.
Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If
you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also
useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc.


That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10
meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight.

As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home
alone and don't have a phone you are Amish.
I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother
with the cell interface?

Yeah, it's docked. The Panasonic will link up to two cell phones. The cell interface enables me to
cut Cox out of my phone system and not have to worry about where my damn cell phone is, as long as
it's in the house.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:38:27 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:

On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 12:00:05 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H
wrote:

I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!

How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone
base?
Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home
phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards
that I do not understand)


===

I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most
modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone.
Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If
you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also
useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc.

That's exactly what it is. We have Panasonic cordless phones, both of our cell phones link up automatically as soon as they are in range, and can be answered with the cordless handsets just as John describes. You can also choose which cell phone to use to make outbound calls. It even rings with the cell phone's ringtone. They are calling it "Link2Cell".

It's pretty cool. Can't believe I've just discovered it but have had these Panasonic phones for at
least a couple years now.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!


Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number.


I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and
set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as
good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I
subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls
from my cellphone.

I use VoIP several years ago for a while. Didn't like it. Too much static or dropped calls or other
screwy stuff. I do use Skype for calls to a land line at my friend's house in Holland. Costs all of
$.02/minute, and the sound has always been spectacular.

On 7/30/2017 1:34 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!


Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number.


I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and
set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as
good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I
subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls
from my cellphone.

I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I
have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are
pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only
other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to
the grid. Just about anything takes them down.


You are on DSL?



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On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400,
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H
wrote:

I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!

How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone
base?
Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home
phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards
that I do not understand)


===

I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most
modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone.
Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If
you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also
useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc.


That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10
meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight.

As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home
alone and don't have a phone you are Amish.
I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother
with the cell interface?

If you don't have a cell phone you are correct, but this day who doesn't? If you are home, you can use your "home" cordless phone to make and receive calls. If you are away, you have your cell phone with you.

For some that may not make sense, but for many (most?), it works great. We only keep out landline for the home alarm reporting service. One day I'll get an internet phone service and get rid of the TW bundled phone. It's just not that much money or big of a deal to make it worth it right now.

So this thing responds to any cell it is mated with (more than one)?
How does it decide which one to use with an outgoing call?

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:43:35 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!


Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call your landline, get your cellphone number.


I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and
set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as
good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I
subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls
from my cellphone.

I use VoIP several years ago for a while. Didn't like it. Too much static or dropped calls or other
screwy stuff. I do use Skype for calls to a land line at my friend's house in Holland. Costs all of
$.02/minute, and the sound has always been spectacular.

I might think of dumping the POTS if it would save me any money. As
long as I have DSL it is just bundled in the package and there is no
money to be had in dropping it. I do get a big suite of extra services
but I only use a couple. Caller ID on my TV is cool. I use the
conference call deal now and then.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:01:04 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I
have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are
pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only
other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to
the grid. Just about anything takes them down.


You are on DSL?

Yes. It is the most reliable connection around here and I have dial up
as a backup. The DSL is 10MB or more, plenty to stream movies or
whatever. If you are just reading Email and text newsgroups, dial up
still works.

wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:11:28 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 7/30/17 10:41 AM, True North wrote:
On Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:02:14 UTC-3, John H wrote:
I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I
get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop
paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!


Now we can only hope that all the nuisance callers, who used to call
your landline, get your cellphone number.


I finally "dumped" my "wired" landline phone here after 15 years, and
set up an "internet" phone from the cable supplier. It's OK, but not as
good or reliable as the landline phone. I don't use it often. I
subscribe to a service that blocks about 90% of spam and robot calls
from my cellphone.

I might think of that but my landline is pretty much free as long as I
have DSL. Since everything is underground here the POTS lines are
pretty much 100% available. I can't say that about Comcast, the only
other real choice. They are up on poles with repeaters connected to
the grid. Just about anything takes them down.


I have Comcast, but our cables and lines are all underground. Home phone
$10 a month VOIP.

On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 8:18:30 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:44:07 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 1:31:17 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400,
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:25:05 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:02:10 -0400, John H
wrote:

I just 'paired' my cell phone to my panasonic home phones. Now when I get a cell phone call I can
hear the ring and answer it on my home phone.

Next step, disconnect the home phone from the land line and stop paying Cox the big bucks for the
telephone!

Yippee.

You guys should have told me about that years ago!

How does that work? Do you dock your cell phone in the home phone
base?
Obviously if you are out on the golf course with your phone, the home
phone is not going to ring. (unless there is something about SIM cards
that I do not understand)


===

I'm guessing it's probably a "Bluetooth" link similar to what most
modern cars provide for hands free operation of your cell phone.
Virtually all of the newer cell phones have Bluetooth capability. If
you have a lot of MP3 music stored on your phone Bluetooth is also
useful to linking up with wireless speakers, ear buds, etc.


That is still "docked" in the data sense. If you are more than 10
meters from the house phone, it is a paperweight.

As long as everyone has their own phone that is OK but if you are home
alone and don't have a phone you are Amish.
I suppose you can back that up with VOIP but at that point, why bother
with the cell interface?

If you don't have a cell phone you are correct, but this day who doesn't? If you are home, you can use your "home" cordless phone to make and receive calls. If you are away, you have your cell phone with you.

For some that may not make sense, but for many (most?), it works great. We only keep out landline for the home alarm reporting service. One day I'll get an internet phone service and get rid of the TW bundled phone. It's just not that much money or big of a deal to make it worth it right now.

So this thing responds to any cell it is mated with (more than one)?
How does it decide which one to use with an outgoing call?

You can pick which one using the buttons on the phone.