Not long ago I walked into a large electronics retailer to buy a cordless phone.
Fios customers or wannabes: Keep an eye out for the next-generation Verizon One, a 5.8-gigahertz cordless phone with a sleek touch-screen panel.
At CES, ION will also unveil an innovative Bluetooth Cordless Phone System, the world's first home phone system built specifically for smartphones.
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Like a cordless phone looking for a clear channel, it can hop on to a less crowded frequency to send the next burst.
For three years after he leaves jail, he wont be allowed to touch a computer or a cellular or cordless phone without permission from a probation officer.
Both Talking Point and the Bluetooth Cordless Phone System will be on display at Central Hall Booth 11604 at the 2013 CES show in Las Vegas from January 8-13.
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The base is connected to the phone through a headset connector and, given its apparent size, seems more appropriate for use with a desktop cordless phone than with a mobile phone.
This feature is for all of us who have had to use the base unit beeper to locate the cordless phone or who routinely cannot remember where they kept their car keys.
Another concerning flaw in the study's methodology was that it did not address cordless phone usage, which has been found in other studies to have a risk of tumors similar to cell phones, said Lloyd Morgan, a retired engineer and consumer advocate who has published several analyses on the phone-cancer issue.
The company also makes a VoIP-capable chipset, so all they need to do know is release a Bluetooth-enabled cordless Skype phone, and we'll be sold.
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It's been a long time since we've thought of our cordless landline phone as cutting-edge the last time we upgraded was to get a phone with a headset jack, hardly something at the forefront of technology.
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That means that interception of satellite, cordless and mobile phone messages, in effect, falls outside the law.
Satellite, mobile, cordless and international phone conversations are routinely intercepted without a warrant.
Tough as it was to get the biggest companies from different industries to agree on a basic Bluetooth specification, it is going to be even harder to do the same for each application-specific standard from simple tasks such as controlling music players to complex hand-over rules needed between public-wireless networks and local cordless connections for phone calls.
Ostergaard demonstrated how a user can dial a telephone number from the keypad of a Palm and connect a cordless headset to a regular fixed-line desk phone.
Unlike competitor's remotes, the Lenovo 4-in-1 remote controller can also be used as a VOIP handset3 to make and receive phone calls over the Internet, similar to a typical cordless telephone.
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Two companies have recently been demonstrating a new type of mobile-phone headset they hope will challenge Bluetooth by supporting existing mobile phones and cordless home telephones.
Next, because mobile-phone signals can be randomly delayed or jammed, they turned to long-range cordless phones which do not pass through a telecoms network.
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