GE's latest DECT 6.0 phones feature dedicated GOOG-411 button
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 3rd 2008 5:08PM
posted Jan 3rd 2008 5:08PM
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Isn't that what speed dial is for? I've always put my first speed dial for information.
Speed dial still requires at least 2 button presses. This allows a single button press to make the Goog-411 call.
goog 411 is unbelievably accurate at voice recognition. it scares me sometimes.
nice idea
however, would it be safe to assume that most google users of today dont even have home phones and just use mobile?
also.... i dont see anywhere on the phone to stream adwords
I'll say it. I hate landlines. Hate.
You dial me, and it's a wrong number? How do you even do that!? Wrong number? Update your contacts list! WHAT. You don't /have/ one?
..that is simply not acceptable. Do everyone a favor and get a phone where you don't introduce human error into the dialing process. If I'm not in your contacts, I probably don't want you calling me. If I was, and you dialed the wrong contact, now that I don't mind so much, because I /know who you are/.
Over 90 percent of all US households have home phone service (VoIP or PSTN) using traditional telephones. Unless you're saying Google's user base represents less than 10 percent of all US households?
Cool, I have been thinking of getting a DECT phone, my old 2.4 Ghz set gets beat down by my WiFi and all sorts of other 2.4Ghz devices.
I know they technically run in the same band, but I've never had any complications on my WiFi (802.11g router by D-Link, backwards compatible with an 802.11b adapter in my desktop) from my wireless handsets--4 scattered througout the house linked to the base station in the living room. Am I just an exception to the rule?
Access points can be on about 12 different channels, if you live in an apartment or condo where many people have WiFi they tend to use up all the channels.. Add to that some older baby monitors and things start to not work so well.
I recently tested about 3 Baby monitors in my place, only a DECT one came through clear.. All the others where picking up noise from somewhere.
Anyone have any experience with these Dect 6.0 phones? I was doing some review reading on some with digital answering machines and apparently none of the phones can get it right. They all lack very important features.
OMFG. How in heaven's name did this thing become so ugly?
Naw, that looks like vista. I like the vista theme.
...sometimes I use it with compiz.
A home-phone? Do they still exist? Archaic!
This phone looks like a coffee maker... I might actually get a home phone if it made coffee too...
What's this "home" phone you speak of?