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> On a slightly more practical note Why "more practical"? How is a desk phone more practical than a portable one?
by enriquto 7y ago
> On a slightly more practical note
Why "more practical"? How is a desk phone more practical than a portable one?
- walrus01 7y agoYou can answer it for incoming calls like a normal office voip phone, without the need to worry about limited battery life or paying for a live SIM card just to have a toy to play around with. For people who already have their own SIP based IP PBX the cost of adding another phone is zero. For outbound calls if you encounter an IVR menu (press 1 for english, etc), the ATA will translate pulse dialing into DTMF tones. Functionality I think this example is lacking.
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agoit becomes impossible (or at least rather challenging) to accidentally butt-dial somebody?
- Koshkin 7y agoYou can’t drop it in the toilet.
- JdeBP 7y agoIn the days of wired handsets with really long cables, you'd be surprised at what could happen to the handsets, and where people took telephone calls. (-:
- bluGill 7y agoThey don't break - or at least they don't break under normal abuse. You can break them if you try hard enough, but your first try will probably fail.
- userbinator 7y ago...and when they do, they're very easily repaired --- at least the early, pre-electronics ones.