What Am I Missing Here? What's The Purpose of It? I guess this is just something I don't need, but if I'm missing something, someone please educate me!I have a cell phone and I have a landline home phone. My cell phone is capable of being call-forwarded to my home phone but not via bluetooth, wi-fi or any of these other newly fandangled contraptions.I do not use home landline services such as caller ID, voicemail, etc, but those are on my cell phone. OK-so I forward my cell phone to the home landline and I can answer my cell calls on any of the phones on any of the floors in the house or in the backyard whether it's the cordless or wired phones. Are the only things I'm missing the caller ID on my home phone and the inability to make calls through my cell line from my home phone? If this is all I'm missing, I guess I don't really need this product. What Am I Missing Here? What's The Purpose of It? I guess this is just something I don't need, but if I'm missing something, someone please educate me!I have a cell phone... » Read More What Am I Missing Here? What's The Purpose of It? I guess this is just something I don't need, but if I'm missing something, someone please educate me!I have a cell phone and I have a landline home phone. My cell phone is capable of being call-forwarded to my home phone but not via bluetooth, wi-fi or any of these other newly fandangled contraptions.I do not use home landline services such as caller ID, voicemail, etc, but those are on my cell phone. OK-so I forward my cell phone to the home landline and I can answer my cell calls on any of the phones on any of the floors in the house or in the backyard whether it's the cordless or wired phones. Are the only things I'm missing the caller ID on my home phone and the inability to make calls through my cell line from my home phone? If this is all I'm missing, I guess I don't really need this product. « Show Less
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The main purpose I see is the ability to drop your land line. I was considering this until I realized that I would always have to run from room to room to find my cellphone if I got a call. With this system you have the convenience of multiple phones (not running to find one) without the cost of maintaining a landline. With landline rates running $25-40+ per month, I'm ready to save the expense.
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You don't need it since it has flaws which keep it from working properly. However the befefit would be that it automatically connects via bluetooth whenever in range, so you don't have to forward your cell every time you come home.
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I have the ability to go 4 days without recharging my cell phone, due to spare batteries. Many flip phones standby 10 or more days with more than a day continuos talktime. I fail to see how a landline is necessary. The only time my power was out for more than a few hours (4-1/2 days in an ice storm) I did end up recharging my cell phone in my car when I went out--which I had to do in order to avoid freezing or starving to death. In a situation where my cell phone's battery was inadequate, if I couldn't drive anywhere, I'd have bigger problems than my phone.
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I will it would allow more cell devices to pair. I have five cell phones in my house and two of them are mine. One for personal and the other for work. I was able to pair up my personal phone and set my business cell to forward to my personal phone so I in effect now have three (including the hubbies) setup on this system. I guess the kids will have to manage on their own. We don't have a land line. I'm surprised there are not more of these device. I hate it when my cell is downstairs and I'm upstairs. If I hear the phone, I make the mad dash.
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We have terrible cell phone reception. Can the Panasonic kx tx 1212 help? And, can you use your droid contacts to dial landline calls?
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If I had nothing but landline phone service, sans long distance, it would cost less than $20/month. For this price, I have the peace of mind of knowing I'll still have phone service in the event of a power failure, which I cannot get if all of my phones are based on an electrical connection in order to work. Cannot trust the cell phone-if the battery dies, it can't be recharged. I feel everyone should have at least one old-school, phone line powered handset in their home.Having a phone not reliant on electricity in case of emergency is worth the cost for peace of mind.
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This device works like a bluetooth headset does. The cell's reception isn't improved. If you have a lousy connection, it will be as bad, or worse, using this device.
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I live rural with terrible cell phone reception. Will this KX TH 1212 help or make calling more confusing? Can you access and use your cell phone contacts?
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If I am understanding your question you want to know if you can connect with a old landline. Yes, it works with just an ordinary phone line. The additional phone only needs an outlet and no phone line to work. It receives it's information from the main phone base. If you however mean that you have no landline and want to know if you can use them without phone service the answer is no, you must have service.
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It is a land line phone that uses Bluetooth to connect to your cells.You can purchase another phone to replace the one the dog ate. The base will support up to 6 extensions. I just bought 3 extensions for my house for a total of 5.
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You need a smarter phone. I am sure that Amazon should have a product for your landline phone.
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I don't understand the question. Do you have electric doors? This item is a doorbell that lets you know w/o is at the front door through your cell phone. The only issue that I found with it was that you had to have the application running at all times to get a real-time response. Therefore, I did not keep this item because I thought that was something that should have been handled in the application.
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It connects to landline. You could use majic jack or similar product if you have wi fi available. Otherwise you're better off spending the extra to get a system that uses cellular dialer, althoigh then you get charged a monthly fee for service.
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I may not know how to use mine, so that could explain an ignorant answer. In any case, it has a limited value. I can't use it to find my phone because I get repeated annoying alarms when it I have my phone and because it stops tracking things when it wants to - and without my phone (which I am looking for), I can't turn it back on. I use it to find just a couple things that I often misplace and aren't always too close to set off repeated alarms.
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hi, an update on my previous note...I used the locator/intercom feature with my husband. He answered his phone in the basement and it came through the intercom. Thanks for making me aware of this feature!
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This is a iden phone. It is obsolete in all US carriers. It's only a paper wait or door stop. It can also be used as a hockey puke. If you have two you can use them as walkie talkies in short distance.
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The piece in the photo is a handset in the home base. You only need one of these. The secondary handsets for other rooms are much smaller and are only chargers/holders for the handset. You only need one home base, it's the one that plugs into your phone service. The second, third...whatever do not plug into your house wiring, only to an electrical outlet for recharging. I hope that helped answer the question. The longer I have this phone the more I am liking it. I have the main home base unit, as shown in my living room and the other handsets with their chargers in bedrooms. On my nightstand I used double sided tape to mount the charger to keep it exactly where I place it. That worked perfectly. The piece in the photo is a handset in the home base. You only need one of these. The secondary handsets for other rooms are much smaller and are only chargers/holders for the handset. You only need one home base, it's the one that plugs into your phone service. The second, third...whatever do not plug into your house wiring, only to an electrical outlet for recharging. I hope that helped answer the question. The longer I have this phone the more I am liking it. I have the main home base unit, as shown in my living room and the other handsets with their chargers in bedrooms. On my... » Read More The piece in the photo is a handset in the home base. You only need one of these. The secondary handsets for other rooms are much smaller and are only chargers/holders for the handset. You only need one home base, it's the one that plugs into your phone service. The second, third...whatever do not plug into your house wiring, only to an electrical outlet for recharging. I hope that helped answer the question. The longer I have this phone the more I am liking it. I have the main home base unit, as shown in my living room and the other handsets with their chargers in bedrooms. On my nightstand I used double sided tape to mount the charger to keep it exactly where I place it. That worked perfectly. « Show Less
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Note its for GPS, not cell phone. It has nothing to do with cell phone reception. For that you need ATT 3G micro cell tower. This simply hooks on to the GPS section of that Tower so emergency people can locate your house.
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Honestly I doubt it, the thing about this phone is that when you link your cell phone VIA bluetooth the sound quality is only as good as your cell phone service, so now I just forward my cell phone to the home line to get better sound quality. Its a great idea but the sound quality usually sucks through the blue tooth connection.
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You have to attach a standard phone cable to the wall jack. You can buy a splitter so that the phone and the unit uses the same wall jack; very cheap. The phone has no part in the process since the unit dials out to any number(s) you select. I have a portable phone for my house phone but as I said, it plays no role in the call out process. The unit works well after you understand the instructions.
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No, I don't believe so. Never needed to, but can't find anything in the owner's manual to indicate that call forwarding is a feature. I believe that feature is only available through your phone company.
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So what you are saying is that when someone calls the house using a cell phone the panasonic phone blocks those calls? but allows land based phone calls to go through? Is it all all cell phone callers or just one or two? I never heard of that happening so not sure why the panasonic would be doing that because really it doesnt know what device on the far end is making the call.
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The reality is that I don't have Call Forwarding. However, I believe it's setup with your carrier and I don't think it requires any unique function in the telephone.
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That Call Block is a great feature ... you will be glad you have it! Thankfully there is no extra fee for it :)) .. just the cost to the phone company for the caller id, which I personally think is worth the money (whatever it is .. it's so mixed into the bill I'm really not sure What it is LOL) ... Enjoy your new phone!