[access-uk] Re: Talking caller id units

Phil said: "I guess what we really need is a digital cordless home phone that 
works like a mobile with talks on it but I don't think such a device exists 
yet. " 

BT launched a product called, I think, Fusion a year or two ago. 

It's a box that allows you to use your mobile phone as your home phone. So it 
somehow allows your mobile to recieve landline calls. It also allows your 
mobile to send calls via your landline. 

So, if your mobile has Talks on it, and the Fusion box definitely also 
transmits the ID information, then you might have a solution here.

I really like my talking caller ID  though. I got it from RNIB about 6 years 
ago. I have a feelling it may be a Cobolt product as the man in the box sounds 
suspiciously like my microwave (also from Cobolt )It is particularly handy that 
the number just automatically speaks out across my living room so I don't have 
to find and grab a phone to interrogate the display with Talks like I have to 
if my mobile rings and I'm working out who I want to screen that day. 

...Damon 


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: phil stephenson 
  To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:06 AM
  Subject: [access-uk] Talking caller id units


   Hi,

  on another search, this time for info re talking caller display units for use 
with our home phone system.

  I know Hagger used to do one but having looked on their website seems they 
don't anymore.

  have done some googling and found a few commercially produced units that look 
interesting but as ever can't find out much about their general accessibility.

  I wonder if there's anyone on list who uses a talking caller id unit and if 
so which one you use, where you got it, what it's like etc.

  I guess what we really need is a digital cordless home phone that works like 
a mobile with talks on it but I don't think such a device exists yet.

  Anyway your comments greatly appreciated as ever.

  thanks,

  Phil

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