Grace Digital XLink ITC-BTTN Bluetooth Device | List Price: $259.31
Discount Price: $140.95
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Brand: Grace Digital
Features: - Send and receive cell phones calls using regular telephone
- Whenever any of the connected cell phones ring, all the standard telephones ring also
- You can also combine your home phone service plus cellular service into one device - Let the ITC-BTTN manage your inbound and outbound calls between your phone
- Built in Bluetooth
- Connect up to 3 Cell Phones
Fits the bill [Posted on 2008-01-12]
I bought this to replace existing IP phone service. If you don't mind initial delay, you should be happy. Other than that, make sure to put you cellular phone where it gets the best service.
Working great [Posted on 2008-01-15]
Working great with my two cell phones and land line. Using it to eliminate my land line. It is doing all that it says it can, so far. Easy to update the filmware, via computer interface. It does not come with the USB cable, but a standard one works. Some calls have some echoing, but not sure if this is the xlink, or the connection. It rings only the phone it is connected to, which may be due to the wiring in my house. I resolved this by getting a 4 extention 5.8 ghz wireless phone system, which works very good with it. Pluged into the base, it will ring all the other extentions. It also allows you to access all your cell phone features via the home extention. The higher ghz keeps it from interfering with the Bluetooth signal whith is in the 2 ghz range. Would highly recommend considering the adaptations I mentioned here.
Good but could be better (firmware update, please) [Posted on 2008-04-09]
I bought this to eliminate my house land line. Once the land line was shut off (number transferred to another cell phone, always positioned next to the XLNK), I ran the phone cord from the wall to the XLNK. Then, all the phones in the house (wired or wireless) called out and answered the cell phone. The kitchen phone has an answering machine, and that answering machine picks up - not the cell phone voicemail. (which is the way we wanted it).
Here's the problem. Calling out from a house phone to the bank or some other number that requires additional numbers to be dialed after you connect. You know, 2 for English, that kind of thing. The additional numbers dialed on any of the house phones do not "take" - I have to run over to the connected cell phone and press them in there to get them to work. I contacted the manufacturer, and they knew about the problem, but had no solution.
Be sure to get the model that works both with and without a land line - If we add a security system, we'll have to get a land line again, and I'd still like it to work. The $10 cheaper model only works WITHOUT a live land line.
Great solution for person with pacemaker! [Posted on 2008-06-09]
Last year I added a line to my Verizon cell phone service (in California) so that my elderly mother's caregiver (in Hawaii) could call me on my cell without charge at any time. My mother has a pacemaker, and cell phone use is discouraged as the cell signal could confuse the pacemaker. After researching options to porting a cell signal to a regular phone handset, I purchased the XLNK Gateway along with an inexpensive AT&T Trimline handset.
I was pleasantly surprised that the Gateway is a lot smaller than I thought it would be! The unit paired easily with the cell phone's bluetooth, and the sound through the AT&T handset was good. The only problem I encountered was in programming the handset for speed dialing through XLNK using the speed dial numbers in the cell phone. The process required multiple tries to get each number working, possibly due more to the AT&T handset than Gateway. Indeed, when I discovered that the programming would be erased when the handset was disconnected from power, I decided it would be easier to program each speed dial number directly into the handset's memory than try to get it to access the cell phone's programming.
Before I had a chance to take Gateway to Hawaii to install in a home with landline service, my mother moved into an assisted living facility on a trial basis. Rather than have the telephone company install a landline, I quickly set up the cell-to-Gateway-to-AT&T handset system. Mom was set up with phone service on her first day in her new home! Gateway performed flawlessly!
Mom is comfortable using the traditional AT&T handset without danger to her pacemaker, and the cell service gives her needed access to family and friends. If Mom decides to move back home, we'll be able to set up the system with her landline.
After one month in service, the setup is still working well. The cell phone remains connected to the charger at all times. I did make sure to label all power cord plugs "Do not disconnect" at the wall outlet so that someone wouldn't inadvertently shut down the whole system. I also left all of the instruction manuals and speed dial programming list so that someone else could redo the setup again if needed. And I made copies of all docs for myself so that I could remotely guide someone through the setup if all else fails!
The XLNK Gateway was a great solution to address the pacemaker concern in an ever-changing living environment.
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