XLink BT HD

It's what the other people say, it installs fast and works well. I had mine working in 15 minutes. Sound quality is noticeably better than Panasonic Link2Cell. I don't like cell phones much, but I have to have SMS. With this device, SMS goes to my PC, voice is all over the house, and I can carry the cell outside if I need to. One phone number for everything. XLink isn't perfect, but it's better than any other solution.

Love this little box. Get rid of your landline phone now and save money. This turns your landline phones into convenient cell phone extensions. Works thru bluetooth. I replaced an older unit I had for more than 10 years, that was no longer compatible with the new bluetooth standards. This little tool works like my old one did, seamlessly allowing you to answer cell calls from your old landline phone. If you use cordless phones - even better! Took me all of a minute to hook up and start to use. My cell phone is an iPhone 13 so I don't have experience with the newer iPhones nor android based phones, but I am sure this thing will work great with them too.

This XLINK HD product worked right out of the box. I thought we would need to find an installation manual to install it, but it turns out that there is almost nothing to do (you follow a very simple installation description which comes with the phone.) This XLINK HD works well with good voice quality with our up-to-date cordless multi-handset phone system -- our "housephone handset system". And the XLINK also works with a very old ATT pulse phone. Background: A while ago, we moved our landline number to a cell phone (because of poor landline provider support). We had expected to use the new cell-phone with our housephone handsets. This multi-handset product was supposed to work with cell-phones over bluetooth. This did work sometimes, but it was unreliable. After several weeks of attempting to make it reliable, we gave up and just used the new housephone cell-phone by itself. But, when I saw the XLINK product details, I decided to give it a try -- to connect our housephone handsets to the new cell-phone with our former landline number. The XLINK product immediately worked! Reliably! The house multi-handset product now functions just as it would with a landline (it doesn't know it is not connected to a landline). And the home answering machine is now back in service (but you need to adjust the number of rings so that the answering machine will answer before the cellphone goes to voice-mail). Finally, you can also use the cell-phone directly to make or receive a call if you choose, without disrupting the XLINK set-up. You can even take the cell-phone away from the house, and when you come back the XLINK will automatically reestablish the setup. There are 2 buttons on the XLINK BT/HD. The leftmost button establishes the bluetooth connection. The rightmost button is only used if you want to upgrade the software on the XLINK device.

Amazing device, works perfectly with our 1964 Princess phone. Great attention to detail- sends the original dial tone and off-the-hook buzzer, too. Plus they even made it work with Siri. Well done!

I’ve had a land line for many years, and I’ve kept it even though my wife and I both have mobile smartphones. The reasons are that I want incoming callers announced anywhere in my house without carrying my mobile with me, and I want to be able to conference call with family without using a speaker phone. Finally, I don’t want junk calls going to my mobile phone. (We get an average of 5 or 6 junk calls every day.) My cordless phones allow me to block all calls from a particular area code; my mobile phone won’t do that. More and more businesses want to verify my identity when I call. They do that by sending me a code. I’ve been using my land line to receive such codes with a phone call. But now the businesses are wanting to send texts rather than calling, and a land line can’t receive texts. So all this led me to search for a way to keep my land line phone number but be able to receive texts, get announcements, block a range of junk callers, and conference call with traditional handset phones. That’s when I discovered the Xlink BT HD. I purchased an inexpensive smart phone and activated service with a no-contract carrier. I ported the land line phone number to that smart phone and bought the XLink BT HD. The BT HD drives my traditional cordless phone system (two base units with a total of five handsets throughout the house). It works well, and it will save me about $250 per-year because the no-contract service is less expensive than my land line. Here are my impressions of the BT HD: The call quality is good if there isn’t too much distance between the mobile phone and the BT HD. Originally, I put them in different rooms separated by about 50 feet, and the call quality was poor. Now they’re about ten feet apart, and the quality is fine. This might be a distance limitation of Bluetooth. The cordless phones can answer and initiate calls with no issues. But texts can’t be received or initiated by the cordless phone. This is a bit of an inconvenience, but I only need texting about two or three times each week. I placed the mobile phone near my computer so I can see and hear a text come in. So I’m comfortable with that arrangement. A caller ID phone number comes through the BT HD just fine. The BT HD passes the number through, and the cordless phone uses its contact list to identify the caller. If the caller is someone not in my contact list but has their name listed with their phone service, their number comes through but not their name. (The name will be shown on the mobile phone, however.) Call forwarding works intermittently unless if I set it up at the mobile phone. If I try to activate it from the cordless phone, it sometimes doesn't work. This could be an issue with the inexpensive mobile phone I bought. But I only use that feature when I’m out of town. So that inconvenience isn’t too important. If a call comes in and I don’t answer, the cordless phone system answers and records the caller’s message. But if I’m on a call using the cordless phone and a second call comes in, the smart phone will take a voice message using the voice mail at the mobile service provider. So incoming caller messages could be stored in either of two places, depending on whether the cordless phone is available to answer the call. This isn’t all that different from before because my land line provider had voice messaging which would store messages if I was on a call when a second one came in. The difference is that with the land line, I’d get a notice on the cordless phone that I have a message on the provider’s server. I don’t get that with the BT HD. So I have to look at the smart phone to see if it has any messages waiting. Of all the little inconveniences, this is the most bothersome one. I’ll have to get in the habit of checking the mobile phone for messages regularly. All in all, the BT HD allows me to do what I want. I don’t regret switching my land line in this manner. But it would be nice if the BT HD could somehow notify the cordless phone that a voice message has been recorded by the mobile phone.

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There are 2 buttons on this device. The one on the left sets up the Bluetooth connection. Nice and easy. The one on the right is a mystery button that may or may not ring the connected wired phones (it didn't ring mine) but in any event is not needed. The instruction sheet is barebones. In any event the device itself works flawlessly and reliably. It automatically connects the bluetooth even when the cell phone is in a nearby room. It rings all 12 of my wired phones (yes - 12). The audio quality is just as good as the landline connection was. Simply put after having read zillions of reviews of this and similar products IT IS OUTSTANDING and exceeded my expectations. No one paid me to leave this review. I just hope the device lasts a reasonable length of time.

Looks ok. But hasn't used it yet. Came with a non Australian power supply. I'll have to use an adapter or send it back.

Does exactly what expected. Excelent product.

Comes from the USA hence long delivery time. But worth the wait. Connects my vintage phone wonderfully. Would recommend this product, well I have told others about it.