All along I thought Magic Jack was just another VoiP company but what caught my attention was that they are charging $19.99 for their service for the entire year. That's just about $1.70/Month for those who still like using their home phones.

But what has really bought the service to a new high is FemToCell!

[QUOTE]MagicJack's femtocell works with mobile phones "potentially" from any carrier, though only GSM is mentioned. Apparently just coming within eight feet connects your phone to the femtocell, after which you can supposedly travel anywhere you like in the house. Calls through the femtocell won't use your minutes.[/QUOTE]

I might just kill my Verizon landline

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I wouldn't buy one just on principle because i hate their commercials that come on every 20 minutes.

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they need magic $19.99 wireless internet :lol:

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isnt this thing just skype but with a charge? so you plug your land line phone into the thing and it uses your internet connection to do voip. go out and buy a 20$ microphone for a one time fee and plug that into your pc and use skype and you have magicjack.

can you dial out to more than 500 land lines for 20$ a month? this seems awful cheap for something like that.

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[QUOTE=res0nat0r;822842]isnt this thing just skype but with a charge? so you plug your land line phone into the thing and it uses your internet connection to do voip. go out and buy a 20$ microphone for a one time fee and plug that into your pc and use skype and you have magicjack..[/QUOTE]

its different, you cannot connect a standard telephone to Skype, you can to Magic Jack. So you could buy a Panasonic cordless and it'll work with the device.

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yeah....aren't they charging you 20$/month to do this then? im sure you could get some type of bluetooth headset for your PC to do this instead.

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chiefy, its $20 a year, about $1.70 / month.

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oh....oops.

check this, its in the news today:

[URL]http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9511411[/URL]

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I've had it for about 6 months now. Quality needs massive improvements. But for the price, I can't complain. Can't justify replacing a landline with the magic Jack yet.

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strange, we're using a couple in our overseas offices to make calls to the US office and the quality is what blew me away.

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but, if you need to call 911 and the power is out your fucked, think long and hard about switching to a gadget phone service

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[QUOTE=Steve Graham;823528]but, if you need to call 911 and the power is out your fucked, think long and hard about switching to a gadget phone service[/QUOTE]

if that happens, I'm fucked anyways since I only have a cordless phone for my landline at home that won't work if the lights are out :lol:

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hahaha, well then, magic jack it is!

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[QUOTE=Kamal;823475]strange, we're using a couple in our overseas offices to make calls to the US office and the quality is what blew me away.[/QUOTE]

Hmm so it must be the internet connection then?

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[QUOTE=Kamal;823534]if that happens, I'm fucked anyways since I only have a cordless phone for my landline at home that won't work if the lights are out :lol:[/QUOTE]

you could always pick up a UPS for your phones and that way you'd still be able to call 911 if the power did go out. When we got our cable modem and VOIP digital phone. They put a UPS right up with the phone lines so that in the event of a power loss, you could still call of emergency.

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^FFS man where have [I]you [/I]been! :shock:

and welcome back! :lol:

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[QUOTE=jeffrey collins;824904]you could always pick up a UPS for your phones and that way you'd still be able to call 911 if the power did go out. When we got our cable modem and VOIP digital phone. They put a UPS right up with the phone lines so that in the event of a power loss, you could still call of emergency.[/QUOTE]

as long as your address is mapped correctly with the VOIP system that is

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[QUOTE=jeffrey collins;824904]you could always pick up a UPS for your phones and that way you'd still be able to call 911 if the power did go out. When we got our cable modem and VOIP digital phone. They put a UPS right up with the phone lines so that in the event of a power loss, you could still call of emergency.[/QUOTE]

Cell phones ya'll, cell phones :lol:

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cell towers go down also or get jammed up ;)

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pony express

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[QUOTE=Steve Graham;825089]cell towers go down also or get jammed up ;)[/QUOTE]

don't forget the asteroid heading for your bed as you lie in it ;)

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skype?

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yeah i've been away for a while. kinda been not into dance music anymore. slowly finding my own sound and it's a mix of deep ambience and german deep house/techno sounds.

that and i've been planning a move to NYC.

hope all my MS brothers and sisters are doing well.

And yeah Cell phones are wonderful in a blackout. Mostly because it's not going to be a massive blackout most of the time and you COULD still use your cell phones. Unless you're in the massive blackout that happened in NYC years ago. I've still got like 6 hours of TV footage from that on VHS. That was wild to watch.