home phone
Skydeck offers a Google Voice Mashup service
In today’s world, we are always on the move and busy. Sometimes, we are not near our home phones, work phones, or cell phones and we can miss a very important call. To manage all of this, some people use Skydeck, or Google Voice. However, why not use the best core features from each service combined into one service? Today, Skydeck announced a new service which is a mashup of both Google Voice and their Skydeck services. First, let’s see what each service is about and how they can work together to benefit the user.
Orby: iPhone for the house?
There are a bunch of iPhone knock-offs out there, but there is this one product from a Brazilian company that is sort of like the iPhone, but meant specifically for the house.
There to parts to the product, the base unit and the phone unit to take calls. Basically, the Orby base unit comes with a lot of apps on the screen that perform different functions, which are very similar to the iPhone’s. It comes with 4GB of RAM, and a 512MB hard drive; the phone part comes with an internal microphone, as well as speakers to receive the call. Continued. . .
Gadgetell rant: ET would be embarrased calling on these phones
Remember ET? He phoned home using a contraption built around a crappy Speak-n-Spell. If you’ve bought a telephone for your landline recently, your choices haven’t changed much since ET was in theaters. Once “the” hub where you hung out in the kitchen for hours talking and untwisting the phone cord in the 70s, now sits there dejected like a pair of sneakers you save only for mowing the lawn. Why has tech passed over the lowly house phone?















