Tom's Hardware > Forum > Mobility Brands > Motorola > Using Motorola V400 as Home Phone

Using Motorola V400 as Home Phone

Forum Mobility Brands : Motorola - Using Motorola V400 as Home Phone

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Word :    Username :           
 

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

Hello,
I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
and controlled by them?

I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
thought?

Thanks,
Dan

Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

[POSTED TO alt.cellular.motorola - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]

In <6b3b1335.0411071112.71da6972@posting.google.com> on 7 Nov 2004 11:12:17
-0800, danbress@gmail.com (DanB) wrote:

>I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
>and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
>leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
>around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
>as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
>how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
>and controlled by them?
>
>I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
>you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
>what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
>thought?

FastForward <http://www.cingular.com/beyond_voice/fastforward>

--
Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

Reply to Anonymous

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

On 7 Nov 2004 11:12:17 -0800, danbress@gmail.com (DanB) said in
alt.cellular.motorola:

>around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
>as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
>how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
>and controlled by them?

There's a device out there that does that, but to the best of my
knowledge there's no model yet for a V400.

Reply to Anonymous

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

> >I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
> >and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
> >leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
> >around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
> >as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
> >how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
> >and controlled by them?
> >
> >I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
> >you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
> >what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
> >thought?
>
> FastForward <http://www.cingular.com/beyond_voice/fastforward>

Fast Forward requires a working phone line to forward to. Will not help the
OP in the slightest.





>
> --
> Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
> John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

Reply to Anonymous

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

"DanB" <danbress@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6b3b1335.0411071112.71da6972@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
> I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
> and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
> leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
> around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
> as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
> how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
> and controlled by them?
>
> I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
> you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
> what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
> thought?
>
A Fixed Cellular Terminal (FCT) allows landline instruments to make and
receive calls via the cellular network. However, the SIM card needs to be
in the FCT, and it wouldn't be convenient to keep swapping it with the
phone. I couldn't say whether it would be economical to use a second SIM
and call diversion.

A Bluetooth headset is only marginally less cumbersome than carrying a
phone, and probably wouldn't work in another room. I have seen (on the web)
a Bluetooth-enabled voice gateway, designed for making calls from a BT phone
to a landline or VoIP network, but don't know if that would do what you
want.




----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups
---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

Reply to john

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

PDA Man is correct. it looks like fast forward will just forward
cellular calls to my home phone, which is not what i want. I want my
home phone to "control" my cellular, and vice versa.

I want to be able to pick up my home phone (which is not actually
connected to the POTS network) and dial numbers, which my cellphone
will dial. And on the other side when a call comes in on my cellular
i would like it to make my home phone ring and answer it on the home
phone.

Al, what is the name of the product you mentioned?

"PDA Man" <pdamant@pada.net> wrote in message news:<0oSdnQb0_u7bqxLcRVn-uQ@comcast.com>...
> > >I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
> > >and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
> > >leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
> > >around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
> > >as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
> > >how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
> > >and controlled by them?
> > >
> > >I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
> > >you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
> > >what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
> > >thought?
> >
> > FastForward <http://www.cingular.com/beyond_voice/fastforward>
>
> Fast Forward requires a working phone line to forward to. Will not help the
> OP in the slightest.
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > --
> > Best regards, HELP FOR CINGULAR GSM & SONY ERICSSON PHONES:
> > John Navas <http://navasgrp.home.att.net/#Cingular>

Reply to danb

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

http://www.cellsocket.com/


"DanB" <danbress@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:6b3b1335.0411071112.71da6972@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
> I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
> and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
> leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
> around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
> as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
> how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
> and controlled by them?
>
> I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
> you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
> what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
> thought?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

Reply to Anonymous

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

> I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
> and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
> leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
> around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
> as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone
> such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
> and controlled by them?

I don't understand that. Whats the difference between having a land
line phone fixed in one room or leaving the mobile phone in that room?

JMS

Reply to Anonymous
- 0 +

Archived from groups: alt.cellular.motorola (More info?)

 

"A.J." <aj@shaw.net> wrote in message news:0MOjd.149891$nl.30189@pd7tw3no...
> http://www.cellsocket.com/
>
AWESOME!! I gotz to get me one of those!
>
> "DanB" <danbress@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:6b3b1335.0411071112.71da6972@posting.google.com...
>> Hello,
>> I recently moved into a new home and decided to not get a land line,
>> and instead got cingular service with a motorola v400 phone. This
>> leaves me with no home phone, and i dont really like carying my phone
>> around the house just to make sure i dont miss any calls. So what i
>> as thinking has anyone every tried to hook up their phone (not sure
>> how) such that it could be connected to my regular land line phones
>> and controlled by them?
>>
>> I am sure this is probably not quite a home brew sort of thing since
>> you would have to convert tones->digital signals in order to dial and
>> what not. but just wondering if anyone has ever given this any
>> thought?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>
>

Reply to at
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Mobility Brands > Motorola > Using Motorola V400 as Home Phone
Go to:

There are 1202 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them