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

Got my Xlink BT HD and am very pleased with it. Simple hook up and works exactly as advertised. My cell phone connected via bluetooth right away, and audio is excellent; clear and strong.Now when I'm home, my cell phone calls are routed through my antique rotary phones (see pics - I swap them out now and then); love hearing them ring and it's a gas using them for their intended purpose: communication.Great product, good price, highly recommended.

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.

I opened the box, glanced at the quick setup guide, and was up and running in under 5 minutes. It's brilliant. This box pairs with your mobile phone using Bluetooth. (Just like using a mobile phone in your car if that helps to understand it.) A regular phone (like you probably have in a closet somewhere) plugs directly into this box. Done. It just works. We got this box and a big button speakerphone for a family member who had a stroke, can no longer use her mobile phone without assistance. Now she can make calls and get calls the old-fashioned way, like we did for decades. Behind the scenes this box controls the mobile phone. She doesn't have to touch the mobile or even look at it. We turned the ringer off on the mobile phone, since the regular old phone rings just like a landline. No monthly fees for this box. And the mobile phone can still be used as usual if desired. It's fast, easy, and works fine. Highly recommended!

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.