Need an expandable phone that isn't awful
January 14, 2011 12:28 PM
I need a new phone for the home office. Degree of difficulty: Home phone service is VOIP, so the "base unit" must be in a closet in the living room, but I need speakerphone functionality (ideally a constantly-plugged-in unit, not a handset) three rooms away in the office.
I work from home a couple days a week, and am on the phone upwards of 6 hrs/day when I do. I currently have a VTech expandable cordless phone system. The base unit is plugged into the router in the living room, and I can use the speakerphone on the handsets as needed. However, the battery life is short, and the quality is poor. I'm looking for something that has a "remote" option that can still be an office-quality speakerphone that doesn't require batteries. Open to headsets, but I prefer the speaker option for comfort reasons. Does such a phone exist? I'd also prefer not to use anything through the computer (skype/gtalk/etc)
Thanks!
I work from home a couple days a week, and am on the phone upwards of 6 hrs/day when I do. I currently have a VTech expandable cordless phone system. The base unit is plugged into the router in the living room, and I can use the speakerphone on the handsets as needed. However, the battery life is short, and the quality is poor. I'm looking for something that has a "remote" option that can still be an office-quality speakerphone that doesn't require batteries. Open to headsets, but I prefer the speaker option for comfort reasons. Does such a phone exist? I'd also prefer not to use anything through the computer (skype/gtalk/etc)
Thanks!
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Here's another one that's better looking and supposedly has a 12 hour battery life.
posted by LuckySeven~ at 8:32 PM on January 14, 2011