(Part 2) Best telephones according to redditors
We found 419 Reddit comments discussing the best telephones. We ranked the 157 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Or receive news of your dead husband while answering on this rotary telephone
No shit.
BTW, what your "large telecom company" is almost certainly doing is connecting your analog telephone to a voip adapter. i.e. you are already using voip.
Look for and buy a "business" telephone system. "business" phone systems will have the features that you need. Don't get voip adapters for your analog phones.
Get something like the following. It is expandable up to 6 lines:
https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-KX-TGP550-SIP-DECT-Phone/dp/B002SUEQBY
I'm not certain, but that could be a Bose SoundDock on the lower shelf of the back desk
Also, you could be looking at a VTech or Panasonic cordless phone.
absolutely.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=elderly+alert+call+button
here's a set for $20
https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Caregiver-Buttons-Wireless-Pager/dp/B0032FMSWS/
We are utilizing this phone configured by this guide, each extension (ext1,ext2,etc) is mapped to a local phone. For dialing out you would choose the ext line then go from there.
EDIT: to answer your question below - Call quality is great, haven't had any issues so far (cross fingers).
Moment, die Anleitung kenne ich!
Keine Ahnung mehr wie das Teil heißt, aber genau die Anleitung hatte ich mal in der Hand!
Das ist doch so ein Konferenztelefon.
Plantronics Calipto oder sowas war das glaub ich...
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Edit: CALISTO! https://www.amazon.de/Plantronics-610-M-CALISTO-WW-Schwarz/dp/B00SLP4VQK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1549956728&sr=8-2&keywords=plantronics+konferenztelefon
What you're looking for is called a boundary microphone, which are those little hockey puck mics you see used in conference rooms.
Cheap examples made just for your use case would be the Plantronics Calisto 610-M and Jabra Speak 410 which are ostensibly conference call speakerphones, but it's the type of device you're looking for. The MXL AC-424 would be a good USB boundary mic that doesn't need an audio interface.
Just be aware that boundary mics are good at picking up room echo, so thing like rugs/carpet on the floor and soft furniture will help a lot.
If you haven't bought the webcam yet, I'd actually get the Logitech C925e over a C922 as the C925e has the exact same optics and sensor as the C922, but in a better mechanical package (built-in lens cover anybody?) and costs less.
Will this one fit it?
https://www.amazon.com/Mouthpiece-Vintage-Antique-Telephone-Electric/dp/B0767LGN49
There used to be a company called TalkSwitch that did all of this and did it affordably, but then they sold out to Fortivoice/Fortinet and their products basically don't exist anymore, which leaves the SMB market in a bit of a bind. Sometimes you can find their stuff secondhand if you're willing to go that route, but at this point I bet those handsets and boxes are taking their last breaths.
About a year ago we took a chance on an X16 system for a small but busy dental office, hoping we wouldn't have to come up with a whole other solution a couple of weeks later. To our surprise it was easy to set up and has been working really well in that environment.
It has almost all the features you're looking for, with the possible exception of ring groups. I'd have to check with one of my guys and see if Xblue supports ring groups or not.
The one issue we ran into is that the system doesn't like having digits dialed too rapidly. You'll almost never actually encounter this, but there was one office person on site that, anytime there was a repeated digit in a phone number, like "4003", would double-tap the repeated digit. We set up a logging device between the Xblue system and their lines to the mpoe (Comcast in this case), and near as we could tell Xblue was doing everything right but the mpoe side hated it. We initially contacted Xblue support on this and found them to be friendly and wanting to help, but it wasn't something they had encountered before.
I've had to deal with Avaya in the past and I hate them with a fiery passion. Support was nonexistent unless you purchased the system from an approved vendor along with a support contract, and their entire setup was designed to be difficult and spiteful.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000050FZP/
You need a FXO port on your system or to port to a VoIP provider. This card has 2 FXO ports (2 landlines) and 2 FXS ports (2 Analog Phones) and plugs into a PCI slot, you can also get versions that go into a PCI Express slot: https://smile.amazon.com/Supports-Asterisknow-Asterisk-Telephone-Appliance/dp/B079YSNXD8/ref=sr_1_3?hvadid=77996705187818&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=fxo+card&qid=1555772002&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&rnid=2470954011&rps=1&s=gateway&sr=8-3
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SB2DPQP/
We got this for my mom and it’s great! Future Call FC-0613 Picture Care... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0797JGC34?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Just buy an omnidirectional mic. https://www.amazon.com/Conference-Microphone-CMTECK-Omnidirectional-Microphones/dp/B07C2YX4T1/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=omnidirectional+mic&qid=1562982340&s=gateway&sr=8-11
put it anywhere on your desk and be done with it.
that too.
So I'm looking at this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LRR5XF/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_gjQKDbYC9XQB3, and I've got an alexa. it's not perfect, but if it can hear my voice it can make calls.
Nothing like that that I saw. Here is the item
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5ZJRNU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
They've got these as Bluetooth versions too. This one you can get on Amazon.
Pagers are a good idea. Place I work at uses something like this for customers when we fill up and it works great.
Specifically this item: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S3DSNQY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_2ZLVDbJQMAC2K
By the way, it's a piece of crap. Returning it immediately.
Looking deeper online there is this: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LN0OM14/ and this: http://www.pc-telephone.com/pc-to-isdn.htm including this: http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20050206_voip_over_phone_wiring.html
an obscure website called "Amazon" sells them.
When you said you would "move over from a landline to voip.ms" - what did you mean? To use voip.ms, you need SIP telephones (like Cisco SPA504G) or an Analog Telephone Adapter. What's your plan?
An ATA has three ports: power, Internet, and plain old telephone. It uses your Internet connection to communicate with voip.ms, and makes conventional telephones work over a VOIP protocol.
So one way to use an ATA is:
My tiny little home router only has 4 ports but thankfully it's just my deskop & the Meraki MR18 WLAN using the ports so I think I'm good on the port situation so no need for a gigabit internal switch. I will check out the Grandstream, Polycom, and Yealink handsets and see if I can find something decent.
/u/mike2312 - I don't really know how much I will need to spend for a decent phone so I'm just looking for a generic range of options, if you want to suggest something go nuts, I'll kibosh any options once I have a bit more understanding of what's available. And sorry! I'm sure that's kind of annoying but I know literally nothing about handsets
Edit: I was thinking of something like this Cisco SPA 303, because a review specifically mentions it works with voip.ms, which is the service I use
Why not try a newer Cisco phone? I upgrade all 7960's to SPA525G's, which are around $160 on Amazon. They easily go through NAT at our remote offices and allow VPN, wireless, bluetooth, custom ringers transfered from USB, etc... Very feature rich compared to the 7960s. oh, AND a very nice, friendly web GUI, instead of configuring manually or with a tftp config.
I use my phones in a Freepbx/Asterisk setup and they work amazing.
SPA525g Amazon
edit: Heres a screen of the line config page
My business uses this system. It's fairly quick and simple to setup, and as of yet (2 years of use) hasn't failed me. It can be setup to ring all phones or just 1 when calls come in.
I just have the output of the obihai going to a cordless Panasonic phone base with 3 handsets. My house was built in 1992 so I do have good old fashioned phone wiring running throughout the house, but I don't use it.
There should be a lot of possible things like this, as a quick search turned up a few possibilities.
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https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Caregiver-Buttons-Wireless-Pager/dp/B0032FMSWS/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_121_tr_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=4TSB76SRF6JXA78MNCMH
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I like this one that can be tied to a land line. No monthly fee is the best part! Just a button and remote call box.
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https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Alert-System-Seniors-MONTHLY/dp/B018DJ428A?th=1
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Consider the Panasonic KX-TGP550 SIP DECT.
http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-KX-TGP550-SIP-DECT-Phone/dp/B002SUEQBY/ref=sr_1_3?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1451685963&sr=1-3&keywords=panasonic+sip
Supports up to six phones and eight lines. Can do everything you want except for record calls. I think there are other means available to record calls.
> His old phone still works even if the power goes out.
"Modern" has nothing to do with it... Any phone connected to the phone company that doesn't require a/c power (cordless, speaker phones, etc...) will work if you lose power. Those phones operate off of the 48VDC put on the line by the phone company, and the central office at the other end of that wire has a basement full of batteries and a big generator to recharge them in the even of a black-out.
For example - This phone would probably continue to work
Not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but it sounds like you're over complicating it by bringing VoIP into the conversation.
What about a corded/cordless phone system with Bluetooth? Something like this - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V5ZJRNU/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_qankDbDPFQZPG
use MagicJack for each landline, I've used it for years and works great, only $35 per year per line