• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Using your mobile as another home handheld phone

G

guyver_dio

Member
Hey,

Does anyone know if there's an app to integrate your mobile to be another handset with your wireless home phones?

Like when you are within range and your home phone rings, your mobile will also ring and you can talk on it just like you're using one of your home phone hand helds.

Thanks
 
It's a different wireless spectrum so it's not something an app can do.

However you could get a Google Voice number and give that out as your main number and have it ring both your home and cell phone.

That was actually the original idea behind Google Voice back when it was a small company called Grand Central (before google bought them). Put simply: one number, many phones.
 
I do this, how I do it is I run a voip server at home. then I use tasker on my phone - when I am within range of my home wifi it turns on the voip phone csipsimple and it becomes the default dialer - it lets you choose mobile or your voip server for dialing out. And you can answer both mobile and voip calls. The voip server is "PBX in a Flash"(asterisk) and it uses both a landline for local calls and google voice to make free long distance in US and Canada calls and also provides many other features.
 
Here is a article on how to set it up. The author includes links to low price hardware under the prerequisites section near the bottom of the article.

nerdvittles.com/?p=740
 
Thanks for the replies, unfortunately google voice isnt available in australia so looks like i'll have to wait. The voip server idea looks interesting but sounds like to much effort considering it was just a 'be cool if i could' thought i had the other day. Perhaps one day they could add the hardware to home phones to make this just another standard feature.
 
The site I sent you to twittered today that they will be doing a cloud/subscription based service announced on the web site next week. That may fit your needs better.
 
There are a couple of Android home phones about but, as far as I've seen, they are just that. They don't swap from one to the other.

Dave
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom