Filed under: Cellphones, Household

Still really attached to that landline phone? Seriously? That’s cool, we still love you, and T-Mobile still wants your business. Following a few months of trials, the T-Mobile HotSpot @Home Talk Forever service has mercifully morphed into the simpler “T-Mobile @Home,” featuring a Linksys-sourced router that plugs into a broadband connection and allows any plain ol’ telephone — you know, the plug-in kind — to take advantage of unlimited nationwide calling for $10 a month on top of your regular T-Mobile bill. The so-called “HiPort” router runs $49.99 on a two-year contract, and if you’re in the market for a fancy new cordless, they’ll sell you a two-handset VTech DECT system for $59.99. No worries when you’re ready to hop back into the 21st century, either; the system will happily work with T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home WiFi cellphones, too. Look for the whole shebang to go on sale July 2.

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

No need to bust out one of those newfangled smartphones to get your handset-based chat on — oh no, baby boomers and their offspring can now handle IM conversations via a landline telephone. You heard right, Vtech is getting all extraordinary on us today with the industry’s first instant messaging cordless phone, and sure enough, the DECT 6.0 IS6110 features a full-fledged QWERTY keypad to keep those thumbs happy. All that’s required is that the phone’s base station be connected via USB to a PC, after which users can have free access to MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger. What better way to gently introduce your mother (hint, hint) to this millennium than by dropping $99.95 on this?

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