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Just curious- I have no financial interest in this.....
This seems like such a 'natural' for those of us who travel. It's a tad larger than the standard Zippo lighter. Plug it into any convenient USB port, plug the modular plug from any phone into the magicJack(.com), and voila! assuming you have a broadband connection, all your calls local- long distance- even international, are free! Well, $20 for the device and $20 a year for the service, including an incoming phone number with voice mail from the area code of your choice.
Anyhoo, does anyone besides me have one? Does it seem to work as advertised? I haven't made a lot of calls from mine, but on those I have made the party on the other end has said it sounded about like a cell phone. Anyone else's experience? I guess I'd like to find it's limits- like how 'slow' a connection will accommodate it and keep working.
We will be traveling next week for a while, and while we will have portable phones with us, I will try the magicJack. I'm hoping it will work from Europe/ Mexico/ Asia for staying in contact with the office instead of phone cards or high per-minute charges from the cell phone company. Would that all the clients could get along without supervision for a couple of weeks but not all of them can.
Anyway, Happy Travels to all!
Jim Ricks
This seems like such a 'natural' for those of us who travel. It's a tad larger than the standard Zippo lighter. Plug it into any convenient USB port, plug the modular plug from any phone into the magicJack(.com), and voila! assuming you have a broadband connection, all your calls local- long distance- even international, are free! Well, $20 for the device and $20 a year for the service, including an incoming phone number with voice mail from the area code of your choice.
Anyhoo, does anyone besides me have one? Does it seem to work as advertised? I haven't made a lot of calls from mine, but on those I have made the party on the other end has said it sounded about like a cell phone. Anyone else's experience? I guess I'd like to find it's limits- like how 'slow' a connection will accommodate it and keep working.
We will be traveling next week for a while, and while we will have portable phones with us, I will try the magicJack. I'm hoping it will work from Europe/ Mexico/ Asia for staying in contact with the office instead of phone cards or high per-minute charges from the cell phone company. Would that all the clients could get along without supervision for a couple of weeks but not all of them can.
Anyway, Happy Travels to all!
Jim Ricks