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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: texst to a landline Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:32:52 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: <vlbnqa$hmk2$1@dont-email.me> References: <rsofnjpf31014t083pd40ba8qhsi08hu69@4ax.com> <ltq7iqF7jg1U1@mid.individual.net> <p2rfnjdck84fvjcg1oiqbu45pfvjjrqmpn@4ax.com> <vl9ide$2l66$1@dont-email.me> <ltr0vlFbk0uU1@mid.individual.net> <vla1h3$5a06$1@dont-email.me> <ltse40Fi6rfU3@mid.individual.net> <vlbci5$fo4o$1@dont-email.me> <zSw*psL3z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:32:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d3142400c4837e7f7988697e6f14ebb9"; logging-data="580226"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Kq3hHsMf/asfy0S75PL0HsGUtnZDaf7k=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.3.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gk8zrH5GSinWQvbEXlcgFV4UdCk= In-Reply-To: <zSw*psL3z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2865 On 1/4/2025 10:22 AM, Theo wrote: > I think you might be using DECT without realising it. eg from a search on > Amazon.com for 'cordless phone', #4 is an AT&T branded DECT base and handset: > > https://www.amazon.com/AT-BL102-2-2-Handset-Answering-Unsurpassed/dp/B086QB7WZ1 > > and similar are at #6, #9, #11, #12. Most of the others are Panasonic or > V-Tech, many of which have DECT in the title too. > > What model of cordless landline phone do you have? > Panasonic. But note that the phone in the picture has an antenna. Mine is wired directly to the phone line, which goes to the VOIP device but used to go to a modem and before that wen't to public telephone lines. The extensions are wireless, but not the base station/answering machine. I've never seen a fully wireless landline. But maybe it's not really different. Using radio waves to get to the phone line is not fundamentally changing the technology. The phone in the picture has the same basic display and functions. The only difference seems to be that it doesn't need to be direct-wired. If DECT eventually goes to the landline then it would seem that the lack of landline texting in the US may be more due to simple lack of support rather than technical issues. Not that I mind. I have no interest in receiving 100 characters of misspelled trivia, scrolling across my tiny phone screen like news headlines. As it stands, I'm glad that people can't text me.