Techie question

[boomtownrat]

There's a cell gateway on sale this week at Target. It's one of those things that connects your mobile phone to a landline-connected device via Bluetooth. The claim on the box is that you'll never miss a call again

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[eldritch48]

That apartment complex is the cell-black-hole-of-death. It's sucked for years, with almost every carrier I've ever tried.

[boomtownrat]

Yeah, I guess that area isn't a priority for the providers. :p I notice that people who don't have AT&T don't tend to have problems, at least not the people I've hung out with there.

AT&T needs to spend less money advertising how awesome it supposedly is and more money on actually having the coverage that it claims to have. It sucks here at work, too. It sucks in lots of places. If I didn't have an iPhone, I would switch to another provider. I could always crack the phone, but I hear that causes problems for some people and I'm really not techie enough to deal with that. I'm rather peeved at Apple for having the exclusive deal with AT&T.

[meeshaphrenic]

sadly i don't think it will work. here's what i just read:
"The GE Cell Fusion “Cell Gateway” enables one-touch pairing and connection of up to two Bluetooth-enabled cell phones to any existing home phone system. Users just plug in the sleek and small base unit to the current phone system and pair up their cell and home phones, giving them the ability to make and receive cell phone calls from their regular phone handset."

the only carrier i know that does anything remotely like what you're wanting is tmobile, they do hotspot@home where the cell accesses your wifi when you're at home. if tmobile would get their asses in NC i would go with them in a heartbeat though, i had them in AL and they are by far the best cell carrier i've ever used. ::sigh::

[boomtownrat]

Well, I don't think this is on their end, it's on the user's end - I read a few reviews and it didn't say anything about needing something like hotspot@home. If that were the case, then wouldn't it say something about that in one of the product descriptions or on the box? I dunno.

[meeshaphrenic]

the way i'm reading it is that the box just makes it where you can use your home phone handsets to answer or make calls on your cellular network. if the box isn't getting a cell signal (which it likely wouldn't from your description), then i don't think it would work.

maybe you could get a cheap landline or voip and then forward your cell to that number when you get home?

[boomtownrat]

There's a landline at bloodkitty's, so I can maybe try that while I'm living there. It didn't even occur to me. Thanks. :)