do you need to have your phone near you for this to make calls to you or will it not need your phone once you connect it?
223810
The only thing that it can do on its own is tell time (you still need to sync it once though). Everything else you will need to be close and connected to the phone.
223811
As a bluetooth device, you will always have to be near your phone with it for it to work, and that if it maintains the connection. I had to reconnect it in the phone and device every time I wanted to use it.
259847
It works without a land line if you want to use it only for cell linking through bluetooth.
1193842
Yes you need phone service. This jack hooks into a room that is wired for phone service and allows you to plug into a different room that only has power. Then the second room will have phone service.
87611
Yes, a phone line is required in order for the system to dial out. My recommendations is simple talk, vonage or Verizon's home phone connect.
1324679
If you aren't getting reception where you are, then the phone must in set inside the cradle in order to receive reception. Since I don't use my Bluetooth, I don't know about that.
1728943
it works without phone, but then you wont receive the phone calls when an alarm triggers. and you should only rely on the alarm sounds installed in your home.
666792
No, it has to be plugged. You must get a lot of voicemails! Good phone though.
999330
The base unit requires a phone jack connection to a land line. Therefore use must have a land line for this unit to work.
215756
I only use mine with WiFi, if you are not near a WiFi you would need a data plan and make your phone a hot spot to connect, but no, you don't need a data plan.
1092269
No internet connection needed, it will boost the lower frequency phone signal as well as a high frequency data signal. Which will allow you to use your data as well as voice.
1779493
It needs a land line phone, but it does not require land line phone service. It just needs the physical wiring.
712016
You need the landline connected for 911 calls only. For all other calls you can use Skype without a regular landline connection.
47808
No, it is only a portable handset for the base phone and must be activated from the base.
956093
You do not need an internet connection. Boosts the existing signal and takes my phone from 1 bar to 3-4 bars...enough to make and receive calls when I cannot without it. It must have a power source depending on what you have.
673049
it has a port on side where you connect phone line like on a traditional phone.so you probably have to have a landline
274404
I'm pretty sure if you have the Bluetooth on, all you have to do is tap the button and it will answer the phone. As for keeping the phone with you, it will work within a certain distance. At home I keep the phone in a central place so I can walk around the apartment. I hope this helps.
598678
The phone connect to the cell phones through Bluetooth, so there should be no need to keep a land line. When any of the two cell phone rings, it shows cell on the this phone and you click that button rather than the usual on button which is used for land line.