Xtreme Technologies XLink BT HD - Only High Definiton Audio Bluetooth Cell to Home Telephone Adapter (One Cell Phone)

This device exceeded my expectations, especially when it comes to ease of use. It feels so a little cheap, but honestly seems well worth the money. Setup was incredibly simple—so much so that even my elderly parents were able to connect it to their smartphone without any help from me. My dad was able to walk away with his cell phone when he needs to leave home, and when he gets back home it automatically connects back up for him! The ability to link a cell phone to a home telephone is such a convenient feature, and the call quality has been clear and reliable. It’s a great solution for anyone who prefers using a traditional home phone but still wants the flexibility of a mobile connection. If you’re looking for something user-friendly and dependable, this is a fantastic option—especially for older users or anyone who isn’t very tech-savvy. Worked great with the phone we purchased as you see in the photo.

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.

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.

Cut the cable, including the cable company’s landline “house phone”. So we had to choose a cel to handle service people, emergency numbers, medical and other stuff. I lost, so my phone became ‘it”. It is possible to tie 2 cels to a cordless system, but that would create confusion for us. Also I am hearing impaired, and the cordless call quality is better than our Iphone’s for me. We have a good Panasonic cordless with remotes around the house but the documentation for it's “link to cel” feature is poor, and we abandoned use of the feature, when we first installed the phone. We looked at the cel2jack and the Xlink BT products. I was concerned about call quality over the interface. Amazon shows Xlink BT HD (High Definition audio) as “Amazon’s Choice” based on ratings 4*+, purchased often, and infrequently returned. Everyone’s house and family is different. We have a reasonably large 4 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath house with 2 tech/WiFi/Bluetooth users living in it full time. We have an Alexa “Smart home” with a fair bit of home automation, security and entertainment tech working, so there is tech that sometimes interferes with other tech (like 2 TVs streaming football, while the family is here watching surfing, working or whatever). Users and their tech create EMI/EMC (electro magnetic interference/electro magnetic compatibility) problems. There is a commercial engineering rule of thumb that problems increase proportional to the product of users time devices (2 users time 2 devices =4 , 4 users times 6 devices = 24). Bluetooth and WIFI and cellular are susceptible to this problem. Also house architectures and materials (including metal, glass/ceramic, and rock and brick) cause signal attenuation (blocking/reduction). Xlink has a 10 foot guideline for maximum planning distance between the Xlink BT device and the connecting Cel Phone. Our cordless “base station” is located in the center of the house to provide a good connection to all of the remotes. We spend 95% of our time in 3 corner rooms with remotes, where the cel phones charge. The distance between and where the cel phones sit/charge is 20 feet, through 2 TVs, a glass/metal/ceramic fire place and a wall. I thought it would be a problem. It is not. Twice Xlink’s recommended distance with interfering material, without a problem. I also thought pairing BT/setup might be an issue. It was not. Call clarity is better than my iphone normally is. Pays for itself (cable bill savings) in one month.

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.

I wanted to cut the telephone cord but had a lot of comfort with my home land line telephone with it 5 headsets. Getting to a phone was easy. Along came the Xlink. I now have the cell phone in an upstairs bedroom and I can use the same Panasonic land line phone system I've used for years. No more land line. It works like a charm. Don't forget to keep the cell phone charged. Recommended.

I purchased this to test (and use) an old rotary phone from the 70's that I found many years ago. I never knew if the phone actually worked. But, now I know it does! This device has to be the simplest hookup I have ever encountered. Plug in your phone, hold the BT button, pair with your cell. Done. Really it is THAT simple. And, it works as you would expect. Pick up the handset and you hear the old dialtone. The only thing it is not re-creating is the "siren sound" you would hear if you had the phone off the hook for a period of time. The dialtone just lasts forever. Xtreme team, please add this to a next firmware! While the website of the Xtreme Xlink BT says that if you buy direct you won't have to update the firmware, that is not true. This arrive today on 12/3/2024 and the firmware was v30. The latest was v32 and that update (through the web interface on their website) took five or so minutes. But, it's easy and not a hassle. You can do it through their website or via a downloadable application for Windows. And, you want the app (or to use the web interface) as there are options to do lots of stuff. Most importantly ADJUST THE VOLUME of the headset and speaker. This is a great device, works great, reliable...just awesome to use an old phone again in an easy modern way. My hats off to the Xtreme team. Really...great job!

Finally ditched old PhoneLabs "Dock-N-Talk" because of intermittent Bluetooth operation (replacement Bluetooth Module acted the same, wouldn't reconnect without reboot). During home construction (22 years ago), I wired in a second line (Line-2 - distributed throughout the home) just for Cell Phone Dock, and needed replacement for "Dock-N-Talk". Purchased both the CELL2JACK and XLink HD units. The CELL2JACK required an external USB Power and came with a short cable, plus may be using older Bluetooth 2.1 technology. I didn't realize I would need a longer cable and external supply, so I shipped it back, and didn't test it. The XLink HD does have great sound quality, but remember telephones are designed to operate 300-3300 Hz Bandwidth, but I was impressed how good the XLink HD sounded on landline phones and is a vast improvement over the old PhoneLabs unit. I also like the Contact Sharing which displays Caller ID & Name from iPhone Contacts, very big improvement. As Jeff noted in his review (Sept 2023), calls on iPhone can be answered or made "reliably on my home phone but my iPhone now drops calls in the middle of ALL conversations (when answered or made from iPhone)". We rely on Wi-Fi Calling due to poor service, but when I answer or make calls on iPhone SE3 (iOS 17.3.1) directly, calls drop almost immediately. If I make a call from cellphone, I disable Bluetooth on iPhone to avoid this issue, but if I answer the phone from iPhone, it drops call almost immediately or within a minute (unless I kill the Bluetooth). Not sure if this is an iOS issue, or XLink. I tried to see if there was a software update, but XWizard will not connect using Bluetooth even after using Windows 10 to connect Bluetooth to computer. The "Online Wizard" on there website cannot find the XLink BT2 either. There still is no APP on the app store, so if XLink has resolved this issue, I have no way to determine. If XLink (or Apple) fixes this, then I will update this review with 5-Star. As reported using Landline phone, connection to the call is maintained. Be aware, older iOS releases used to allow "Voice Memos" to select Audio Source during recording, Apple depreciated this feature some time ago, and it's a pain to make a Voice Memo using the telephone handset.

Import från US och fungerar att ringa in men ej ut pga skillnaderna i nummer konfigurationen mellan Sverige och US.

Honnêtement je pensais vraiment pas que ça fonctionne du premier coups avec une qualité top et bien si parfait 🎉. Il me reste plus qu'à optimiser les branchements entre le module et le téléphone. Mais sinon nickel 👍le plaisir de composer les numéros de téléphone à l'ancienne ❤️ Et d'entendre le bon vieux dring du téléphone 😀 Je suis sous Android 13

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.