Xtreme Technologies Xlink BTTN Bluetooth Gateway-Black

Got this sucker working in minutes and then spent an hour running it through the paces. It has performed flawlessly. I was almost discouraged to buy this (or similar devices) as it was hard to tell exactly how they would interface with the home system. I thought I would add some notes on the tests I successfully ran (See below). All this was with one paired cell phone and a dect 6.0 cordless phone plugged in the back of xlink.Ultimately, I've made about 20 calls in and out and I find the technology on par with Apple's mission - easy to use, intuitive and will utlimately become ubiquitous to the user. I have to believe, like DVRs, about everyone will have this technology in their house someday. I'll report back if I downgrade this in the future due to any problems.Notes:Only phones plugged directly to xlink will interface with it. If you want to go whole house, use an expandable cordless system with base plugged into the xlink. We have an expandable for our downstairs and other random phones elsewhere. This works nicely, actually. If you are on a cell call using the expandable, then you can make a concurrent land line call from one of the other random phones (but not from any of the expandable handsets).To call out, you use your phone as normal. It defaults to land line or you can push 1 and flash to call out via cell instead. Caller id number it transmits will be aligned with your choice. If you are on landline and a call comes in via landline, you use call waiting as normal. If you are on landline and a call comes in via cell, you will hear a different beep and can flash over to that call. (Makes me wonder what happens if you started land line, went over to cell to get a call and another land line call starts to come it - will you hear it? Also, I realize I didn't test if you are on cell and another call via cell comes in can you flash over to it - but I imagine that will work too.)If you are on cell, someone can use landline via a different phone (as long as it's not part of an expandable system whose base plugged to xlink).If you are on landline on a phone not connected to xlink and someone wants to make a call out via cell on xlink, the x-link connected phone automatically defaults to landline (so people talking will hear someone pick up), then you quickly hit 1 and flash and you switch over to cell. So a minor irritation for someone already talking on land line.Our answering machine, which is a separate device, is plugged in ahead of xlink in the chain and will pick up for landline and has no confusion with cell - cell calls go to cell voice mail if not picked up.When you are receiving a call, you can tell what line it's coming in on. My cordless system doesn't support separate ring tones (and the instructions warn many won't), but if the cell is in hearing distance you will hear it ring too. Also, the xlink passes through caller id to the handset and if it's coming in via cell it displays the incoming number plus "xlink". If via land line, just the incoming number.If you are on cell via xlink and a landline call comes in, other phones in the house will ring that aren't connected to xlink. You could pick up via call waiting, allow the answering machine to get it or someone on a random phone not plugged to xlink could pick it up normally too.

After 30 years with our land line, and same phone number, we decided to go with a cell phone. But who wants to carry your cell phone in your pocket at home, or while you are out in your yard so that you don't miss an important call?My main concern was when I took my iPhone 5 that I recently bought through T-Mobile, and no land line, what would my husband do if he needed to make an emergency call. He does not like to figure out which buttons to push with our older pay as you go LG phone from T-Mobile and that is where this device comes in.Before buying this, I did my research as usual to see what was out on the market, I called the owner of Xtreme Technologies to ask him about his device and using with my new iPhone 5. He said that he uses it with his iPhone 5 and it works great.There are two models, both will program up to three cell phones with bluetooth, the price is about $15.00 more for the one that I bought with a land line port (BTTN), in case I ever wanted to have a land line again. I received it, and it took me under an hour to set it up. I still had my land line number and hooked it up to this device so that I could check it out before calling our carrier to stop our service.I found that when my iPhone 5, or my older LG phone rang, all of the cordless phones would ring and we could pick up any phone and answer the call. Out going calls from our cordless phone was easy to make, you just had to follow the instructions to select what cell phone you wanted to call out on.After hooking this up, again I was researching another device called the Obihai 100 along with their other models so that I could set up free Google Voice over the internet. I am glad that I got the BTTN with the land line port, because now I have the OBi 100 installed with Google Voice, and it works great, bought both at Amazon.In fact, the volume, and clarity with the OBi 100, and Google Voice is much better than my old land line carrier.Now when my husband wants to make a call out, he can pick up any cordless phone, dial out the ten digit number using Google Voice and the call goes through. It takes awhile to get used to the new way to make a call after so many years with the land line, but it is worth it.Now when I take my iPhone 5 with me, he has the option of Google Voice, or the older LG pay as you go phone that I will keep as a backup.With the Obi100, I have signed up for Anveo for our E911 emergency number and address for a fee of $12.00 a year for up to five 911 calls, after that you have to sign up again and pay another $12.00 for the year, but who makes more than five 911 calls in a year.The above combination works so well that I have been telling my friends, and family along with T-Mobile representatives that want the freedom to answer calls with a corded or cordless phone when at home.