[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Moving landline to VOIP

[Stan Rose]

Harry,

Like Alan, I have a Panasonic wireless phone that does what is described. I
don't know if it is the same model, KX-TG7845, because mine is probably 7
or 8 years old. I'm attaching the manual.

It does what I think you want, namely act as an extension to your cell
phone. I don't think you need an actual land line.

The problem I had with it was that when I walked out of the house and got
in my car, the Bluetooth was still connected to the Panasonic base so it
wouldn't pair with the car. In that particular car, if it didn't pair when
first starting up, it wouldn't automatically pair later. Because of that, I
unpaired my cell from the Panasonic base. That was an older car and I
haven't tried it with a more recent model. Perhaps a newer cell phone would
pair with multiple "bases"? That might have been an original Motorola
Droid!  Also, I suspect if I had located the Panasonic base further from my
garage, so the Bluetooth connection would drop before I got to the car,
that would have solved the problem. If you are going to use it without a
landline, then you can locate the base anywhere

Perhaps I'll give it a try again with my Galaxy S22 ultra and 2021 BMW X3.

BTW, my local phone company, AT&T/Bell South, is discontinuing support for
POTS landlines and I had to move to another solution. I am using OOMA,
which I am very happy with.

Stan

On Sun, Oct 15, 2023, 9:33 AM Harry Forsdick via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Thanks for this information.
>
> Does this ring the Panasonic "landline" phone if a call comes in to your
> cell phone? Or only the reverse -- ring your cell phone if a call comes in
> on the Panasonic "landline" phone?
>
> In our case we don't want to have a "landline".  Rather we would like to
> buy some portable phones installed in various places around our house so
> that even if we didn't have our cellphones in our pockets we could answer
> the cellphone if we were near one of the fixed locations where a Panasonic
> (or any other) phone was located.
>
> I suspect this isn't the way these bluetooth Panasonic phones were
> intended to work, but I hope I am wrong.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Harry
>
>
>
>
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> On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 8:44 AM Alan Millner <armillner48 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Our Panasonic cordless phone system ( our landline) has bluetooth
>> connection to our cellphones, so we can answer a cell call at any of its 6
>> handsets, if the cell is sitting near the base unit on its charger.
>>
>> Alan Millner
>> amillner at alum.mit.edu
>> home 781-862-7893. cell 781-999-4346
>> 48 North St., Lexington
>>
>
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