Best landline phones according to redditors
We found 128 Reddit comments discussing the best landline phones. We ranked the 77 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 128 Reddit comments discussing the best landline phones. We ranked the 77 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Or receive news of your dead husband while answering on this rotary telephone
most telcos don't support rotary any more. You can get a converter to use an old phone.
https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Antique-Rotary-Telephone-Modern/dp/B00DUDAR5M
I bought one of these for my kit:
https://amazon.com/Saytay-Telephone-Lineman-Tester-Connectors/dp/B01ABT7458/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469475891&sr=8-1&keywords=Phone+tester
It's worked well the handful of times I've needed it.
https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Antique-Rotary-Telephone-Modern/dp/B00DUDAR5M
This is the closest thing I can find. Hopefully this is a decent lead for you let me know if this is what you’re looking for
"I've looked for years for a phone that brilliantly marries the practicality of a life-saving communication device with the incomparable form of the disembodied lower torso and limbs of a 1980's mall rat."
BTW, what your "large telecom company" is almost certainly doing is connecting your analog telephone to a voip adapter. i.e. you are already using voip.
Look for and buy a "business" telephone system. "business" phone systems will have the features that you need. Don't get voip adapters for your analog phones.
Get something like the following. It is expandable up to 6 lines:
https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-KX-TGP550-SIP-DECT-Phone/dp/B002SUEQBY
MY TIME TO SHINE. Check this baby out.
I'm not certain, but that could be a Bose SoundDock on the lower shelf of the back desk
Also, you could be looking at a VTech or Panasonic cordless phone.
Here is a phone that just dials 911. No service needed as long as you have the phone jack.
https://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Red-Wall-Telephone-Preprogrammed/dp/B01N459EXY
What about something like this? VTech DS6621-2 DECT 6.0 Cordless Phone with Bluetooth Connect to Cell/Answering System, Silver/Black with 2 Handsets https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJJCL9K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_EmKxCbFHS7RQ4
https://www.amazon.com/Converter-Antique-Rotary-Telephone-Modern/dp/B00DUDAR5M
if mom needs phone and sprint coverage is good in your area i suggest you get her on this plan tonight
https://social.ringplus.net/discussion/7850/blt-2-free-plan-discussion/p1
if you can.. its 6000 mins txt mms 6gig data... pay zero per month if you don't go over and a one time signup/topup fee of I think $38 .. they may or may not have phones for sale .. you can get a cheap one .. flip phone or basic android.. and then swap in a more expensive one later like your samsung or iphone .. phones must pass their check which looks to see if you are paid up on your plan with your current provider and that its unlocked.. if you miss the sale watch them on twitter for the next sale...
then if mom likes her home phone you can get a Vtech Connect to Cell cordless phone that will use moms cellphone to make and answer calls.. it works by bluetooth and it automatically connects when you come home and put the cellphone near it.. just get a wall jack usb charger hook the cellphone up to charge and leave it on and she can use the homephones
https://www.amazon.com/VTech-DS6621-2-Cordless-Bluetooth-Answering/dp/B00KJJCL9K/
as for television you have to talk with her about what she likes and needs.. antenna offerings can be excellent in areas near cities .. you can get 2 dozen stations.
Here you go.
Pretty sure these are the ones I have, but I'm not home yet to verify the exact model number.
Phone+Tone to Pulse Converter+VOIP box+Google Voice=My daughters first and only phone I provided.
For all other tech; people need yards raked, poop scooped, dogs walked, babies sat.....
BTW she loves it her friends can call her, she can call them, the old who gets to the phone first game is live. And yes slamming the phone is the only way to hang up.
VTech DS6621-2 DECT 6.0 Expandable Cordless Phone with Bluetooth Connect to Cell and Answering System, Silver/Black with 2 Handsets https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJJCL9K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_rlzSDbB528ADJ
In the US, throughout much of the time rotary telephones were in use, the customer didn't own the phone. The equipment was the property of the phone company. This may affect the availability.
Anyway, you can buy replica rotaries on Amazon and probably other sites. You can also buy the one your found and replace the cord (also sold online).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0016CVUR8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_vRQIDb9WP5AW9
This is a selection of what I keep in my tech go-bag. You'll build your kit as you learn and build experience, or realize you could have helped a customer out of a jam quicker if you had that tool with you.
Various extra parts I've accumulated over the years like screws, ATX Molex Power to SATA Power Adapters, ATX Molex Y splitters, SATA cables etc..
Good luck and some tools overlap like multi tools and pliers so if budget is low, go with the tool that covers the most jobs.
Edit: I noticed your bag is kind of expensive compared to something like a Dewalt tool bag. I use a plain Dewalt bag which is not as cool as the one in the link, but it's just as tough. This might be a good and less expensive consideration for you if you don't require the look of a briefcase for your tool bag.
Edit 2: You may want to mark your tools with a wrap of some crazy bright color electrical tape to be able to recognize them when they walk away.
There used to be a company called TalkSwitch that did all of this and did it affordably, but then they sold out to Fortivoice/Fortinet and their products basically don't exist anymore, which leaves the SMB market in a bit of a bind. Sometimes you can find their stuff secondhand if you're willing to go that route, but at this point I bet those handsets and boxes are taking their last breaths.
About a year ago we took a chance on an X16 system for a small but busy dental office, hoping we wouldn't have to come up with a whole other solution a couple of weeks later. To our surprise it was easy to set up and has been working really well in that environment.
It has almost all the features you're looking for, with the possible exception of ring groups. I'd have to check with one of my guys and see if Xblue supports ring groups or not.
The one issue we ran into is that the system doesn't like having digits dialed too rapidly. You'll almost never actually encounter this, but there was one office person on site that, anytime there was a repeated digit in a phone number, like "4003", would double-tap the repeated digit. We set up a logging device between the Xblue system and their lines to the mpoe (Comcast in this case), and near as we could tell Xblue was doing everything right but the mpoe side hated it. We initially contacted Xblue support on this and found them to be friendly and wanting to help, but it wasn't something they had encountered before.
I've had to deal with Avaya in the past and I hate them with a fiery passion. Support was nonexistent unless you purchased the system from an approved vendor along with a support contract, and their entire setup was designed to be difficult and spiteful.
If you have bluetooth on your cellphone,
you buy this. It acts like a bluetooth headset, it has a great speakerphone, and you can all pickup a handset and talk on it too, just like a home phone.
Perhaps instead of looking for a typical business style phone maybe one of the more modern DECT cordless style phones would work, such as:
http://www.amazon.com/VTech-DS6321-3-Cordless-Silver-Handsets/dp/B002JH1C5Y
You store the names in the phone book, then perhaps the receptionist can hit flash, nav to the phonebook, pick who to transfer to & then connect the call into a 3-way, then hang-up. Could be kind of clumsy & definitely no guarantee it'll work proper.
There might also be softphone software that could do similar things using a VOIP provider, no physical phone would be needed just a headset hooked to the computer.
I would have entered this hamburger phone, but shipping makes it $0.79 over the limit.
So instead of hamburger phone, I'd like to enter to win this starfish hug ring! It's like you go around being hugged all day. I'll drink to that!
Thank you very much for the contest and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Surprised you didn't end up with this, handed to you without a word: http://www.amazon.com/Hamburger-Cheeseburger-Burger-Phone-Telephone/dp/B0016CVUR8
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000050FZP/
No one can steal your data from this phone: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A66R3YY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_HEZ1DbDHRPA49
So something like this , or am I misunderstanding?
What about this sort of thing? I have an old cell phone that I could hook-up to it for them? Seems like it would work with any phone or plan that way, right?
https://www.amazon.com/VTech-DS6621-2-Expandable-Bluetooth-Answering/dp/B00KJJCL9K/ref=pd_sbs_107_t_1/135-0766618-2293469?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00KJJCL9K&pd_rd_r=ca81653e-babc-4e46-b789-ece757397218&pd_rd_w=uMbkA&pd_rd_wg=CQmkR&pf_rd_p=5cfcfe89-300f-47d2-b1ad-a4e27203a02a&pf_rd_r=R7QJTECZJ125SYGXQD07&psc=1&refRID=R7QJTECZJ125SYGXQD07
PANASONIC Expandable Cordless Phone System with Link2Cell Bluetooth, Voice Assistant, Answering Machine and Call Blocking - 2 Cordless Handsets - KX-TGD562G (Rose Gold/White) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721Q6JB9/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_k0UXCb65Z1SCR
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HDATZ
Ever see Juno? Yes? No? Still cool either way
Weird you want? Weird I got.
You could always get a desk phone that connects to the cell network.
Less learning curve but you will lose the ability to make calls when the power is out.
Nope there was no option like that. Look for yourself.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5ZJRNU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
My business uses this system. It's fairly quick and simple to setup, and as of yet (2 years of use) hasn't failed me. It can be setup to ring all phones or just 1 when calls come in.
We got this for my mom and it’s great! Future Call FC-0613 Picture Care... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0797JGC34?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
> His old phone still works even if the power goes out.
"Modern" has nothing to do with it... Any phone connected to the phone company that doesn't require a/c power (cordless, speaker phones, etc...) will work if you lose power. Those phones operate off of the 48VDC put on the line by the phone company, and the central office at the other end of that wire has a basement full of batteries and a big generator to recharge them in the even of a black-out.
For example - This phone would probably continue to work
Related.
Other side of related.
Remember that bluetooth has a pretty short range so your base would need to be near where the phone is charging. Panasonic phone with obi would probably be cheapest.
You can get a pulse to tone adapter to make them support tone exchanges. ENTS (ents.ca) had a rotary phone on the voip system we had going there. A quick search turns up https://www.amazon.ca/Converter-Antique-Rotary-Telephone-Modern/dp/B00DUDAR5M. I don't remember where I bought the one we put in at ENTS but it was about the same price. It's painful to call anyone though, especially with 10 digit dialing.
I found this on amazon buy only works on GSM which is att or T-Mobile. Here a few more on eBay cordless kind too.
Desktop Wireless GSM Unlocked Telephone Full Size Cell Phone with SMS FM Radio Function Sourcingbay M281 Bright 2.4" LCD Screen with Caller ID Battery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYN9671/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_VYJSDbC9TGWZ4
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F401767571383
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F312779236154
I just have the output of the obihai going to a cordless Panasonic phone base with 3 handsets. My house was built in 1992 so I do have good old fashioned phone wiring running throughout the house, but I don't use it.
Kids version of intercom might work with modifications?
Additionally you could get used PBX and go with it.
If all you want is the handset, those are still sold as retro kitsch:
https://www.amazon.com/Native-Union-Phone-Retro-Handset/dp/B004Z6M918
Or you can buy the whole phone:
https://www.amazon.com/Vintage-ROTARY-fashioned-Rotary-Telephone/dp/B00A66R3YY
I had to get a new line for the BOGO phone. I'll be turning the new line into a home phone and buying a home cell connection set so my kids will have a phone to use to call for help. I don't trust them enough with an actual phone yet.
I'll also probably bring it with when we go on trips as a hotspot.
omg $6.87, you need this:
hamburg phone!
Specifically this item: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S3DSNQY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_2ZLVDbJQMAC2K
By the way, it's a piece of crap. Returning it immediately.
Consider the Panasonic KX-TGP550 SIP DECT.
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-KX-TGP550-SIP-DECT-Phone/dp/B002SUEQBY/ref=sr_1_3?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1451685963&sr=1-3&keywords=panasonic+sip
Supports up to six phones and eight lines. Can do everything you want except for record calls. I think there are other means available to record calls.
Go buy one on amazon then. They still make them. Rotary dial phone
Not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but it sounds like you're over complicating it by bringing VoIP into the conversation.
What about a corded/cordless phone system with Bluetooth? Something like this - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V5ZJRNU/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_qankDbDPFQZPG