http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/ Engadget Comments for Landline breakthrough: VTech announces a DECT 6.0 walkie-talkie http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
I'm a bit younger (early thirties) and after reading your post I tried to think of the people I know around my age and whether they have landlines. I realized that I have no clue whether any of my friends have landlines or not. I assume some of them do, but I bet a majority of them do not. Since many of my friends moved quite a bit in their younger years I always just used their cell phone # to contact them. Now even though many are settled in homes they own, I still use their cell #'s to contact them.]]>Jan 25th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/I assume the vtech is about not needing the base station to do that?!

Anyhow, most Siemens Gigaset phones I know have been able to do this for years.]]>Jan 25th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/in deed not bad !
Apple should make a walkie-talkie version of the iPhone !
Walkie-App !

D-2 ... ]]>Jan 25th 2010 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
Leave this to iPhone. iPhone is a "do all" gadget.]]>Jan 25th 2010 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/"...one feature I'd really like is a remote controlled toilet flusher... I didn't want the person on the other end of the line to know I was in the bathroom."

So whats wrong w/ flushing and running?]]>Jan 25th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/I'll buy this phone when they release a version with integrated fax, modem, and telex. ]]>Jan 25th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
A lot of phone contracts cost more now because of the voice mail included. I would rather save the $5/month or so AND have the convenience of pushing only one button to hear my messages.]]>Mar 24th 2010 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
fail :(]]>Jan 25th 2010 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/well played]]>Jan 25th 2010 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 26th 2010 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
Usually there's some "sharp" commenter out there, lol...

I don't know whether to be proud or doubtful...]]>Jan 25th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
I am looking to replace my wireless landline headsets (I use a VOIP "landline), but I can't find any sets that don't have a freakin' answering machine on them. VOIP services all have built in voice-mail. Heck, so do most regular land-line accounts. What's the point?

]]>Jan 25th 2010 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
I didn't know they started pushing free voicemail on landlines. The last time I had a landline (4 years ago?) it cost extra.]]>Jan 25th 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Mar 24th 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/Jan 25th 2010 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/
Sigh. "Push to talk" is an instruction on the mic button, not the name of a feature. The feature is walkie-talkie mode. You push the button to talk.

Does anyone not think the human race is getting dumber all the time?]]>Jan 26th 2010 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/landline-breakthrough-vtech-announces-a-dect-6-0-walkie-talkie/What's new here?]]>Jan 26th 2010 2:15AM