Xlink-cell Bluetooth Gateway
|  | $128.49Availability: 307 In Stock
Condition: NewSKU: ITC-BT
UPC: 765410000704
Shipping: $8.08
Ships in 1-2 business days |
| Customer ReviewsReviewed on 2008-07-21  
Expectations ran high but reality is lower
I thought this would be a really cool device. It connects one or more of you cell phone(s) to your home's internal phone system. NOTE: YOU CANNOT connect your landline to this Xlink Device. So it simply makes your cell phone work through your home phone system. Not as cool as I first thought, that is, I thought it would accept calls from my land line as well.
First the quality of sound on my side, was not so good (lots of static)although my callers said they heard me perfectly.
Second, it often did not resync when I brought our two cell phones within range. My guess is that there is interference from either my 802.11b wireless network or my Uniden Cordless Phone system which is a 1.9GHz wireless. Often when I come home and put my phone near it, it takes forever to sync.
Finally, the device has a USB port on it and the directions send you to their web site and you find a big fat nothing on the USB. I suppose some future upgrade.
Obviously some people had good luck with this. However I suspect this product still has a few bugs to get worked out.
|  | Reviewed on 2008-07-19
Nice Solution
After trying this thing out for a week, we cut our landline cord, saving $35 a month for basic service. Now we're all-cell phone service. The Xlink enabled us to keep using our four-handset phone unit that we had connected as the landline. So far, the thing works just about perfectly. Sound quality is excellent. On very rare occasions, however, we've had to first "wake up" the cell phone that's connected to the Xlink via Bluetooth to make an outgoing call through one of the external handsets. Incoming calls have not been affected by this, and maybe it's the cell phone's fault. Overall, this has been a fantastic device. I highly recommend it if you are thinking about cutting your landline cord. | | Reviewed on 2008-07-18
XLink cell bluetooth gateway
Works pretty well. Occasionally it doesn't connect with the cell phone automatically & I have to force the connection on the cell phone, but usually it works like it should. I connected it to a cordless landline style phone base unit & have three other remote units in charging bases around the house. The sound quality on the 'landline' units is as good as the cell phone. Provides the convenience of a landline without the monthly charge. | | Reviewed on 2008-07-17
The Xlink works PERFECT
I just got the x-link,
Opened the box
Plugged the x-link into my cordless phone base station (my land line phone)
Plugged in the x-link ac transformer
pressed and held the blue button on the top of the x-link as it went in to parring mode
Opened the communication manager on my "cell phone"
Enabled my bluetooth.... and went into "add a new device"
It found the x-link.... and entered the password "1 2 3 4"
And that was it...
I was not no more than 1 minute that my land line phone was ringing.... I thought to myself what the hack does this mean (like something is wrong) But I looked on the caller id screen on the cordless and it said X-Link and then had a phone # displayed.... So I pressed the talk button.... and said hello..... It was my sister..... a HUGE SMILE came on my face
IT WORKS!!!!!!
and sounded great !
I then CALLED my sister from the cordless phone... she answered (the x-link worked perfect making a call also) and asked here to call me back and leave a message and see if my "land line" answering would pick up.... It rang 4 times.... and my land line answering machine worked just as if there was a land line !!!
So on my land line "cordless" phone.... I called my "cell phones" number... and I got the cell phones voice mail service (Just like if you dialed from your cell phone to get into your voice mail messages).
This device did everything just like it should of.... INCLUDING the installation
Way to go X-Link..... You get a perfect 100% | | Reviewed on 2008-05-22
Simple, reliable, high quality - Works exactly as you would expect!
This little box does exactly what it claims and what it should. It is simple to set up and simple to use. The call quality was excellent.
Now when I get home I plug my cell phone into the charger on the nightstand and any incoming calls ring through on the phones in my home. I don't have to turn it on or push any buttons. It just happens automatically.
Usually gadgets like this type don't really measure up to what they should. This one does.
I do recommend downloading the firmware upgrade available for free from their web site.
This is just a nifty little device.
| |
| |
|
|
