Magic Jack

[Kamal]

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!

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.

I might just kill my Verizon landline

[Jenks]

Re: Magic Jack

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

[floridaorange]

Re: Magic Jack

they need magic $19.99 wireless internet

[res0nat0r]

Re: Magic Jack

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.

[Kamal]

Re: Magic Jack

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..

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.

[res0nat0r]

Re: Magic Jack

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.

[Kamal]

Re: Magic Jack

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

[res0nat0r]

Re: Magic Jack

oh....oops.

check this, its in the news today:

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

[dusk]

Re: Magic Jack

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.

[Kamal]

Re: Magic Jack

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.

[Steve Graham]

Re: Magic Jack

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

[Kamal]

Re: Magic Jack

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

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

[Steve Graham]

Re: Magic Jack

hahaha, well then, magic jack it is!

[dusk]

Re: Magic Jack

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.

Hmm so it must be the internet connection then?

[jeffrey collins]

Re: Magic Jack

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

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.