Originally Posted by
UALOneKPlus
Why would anyone use a cellphone rather than a USB phone or the softphone on the PC in this case?
I'm mindful of the potential radiation exposure from using cellphones too much. If I'm going to be at a static location with broadband & Magic Jack in the first place, I might as well use a cordless phone with better speaker phone capabilities or a wired phone and avoid the radiation + battery drain on my cellphone.
Sounds kind of redundant to the magic jack itself.
Also, since a lot of people are migrating to smart phones, for internet access on the go, plus doing texting, I don't see this as that big of a threat to the phone companies.
You do realize that cordless phones use radio waves too, right?
I won't derail the thread with how silly cell phone radiation is in reality, but I will note that a lot of my contact and other pertinent information is on my Blackberry, and so it is useful to have it rather than have to pull information out of it and then use a softphone or other physical phone connected to the MagicJack. Call it a convenience factor, I guess.
