Bluetooth regular phone adaptor?

[MaxBurn]

I recently found myself on the receiving end of a 1800 number and I have to work on a plain old handset phone, a Cisco 7960 actually.

When out budget allows we are going to go to a plantronics headgear thing with a little motor operator that lifts the handset to you can answer calls but this thing is big $$.

Is there a more generic alternative that will lift the handset and tap into the regular phone cord to adapt to bluetooth so you can use any bluetooth cellphone headset (that we already have/save money)?

Google is about useless on this with the market totally flooded with cell accessories.

[Fushigi]

Well, without buying anything how about forwarding your land line to your cell? It'd use cell minutes so be sure you plan accordingly.

If you don't mind getting another BT headset, this one from GN (Jabra for corporate apparently) (http://www.gnnetcom.com/US/EN/MainMenu/Products/Wireless+Solutions/GN+6210.htm) would work. Or this consumer Jabra BT adapter (http://web.jabra.com/JabraCMS/NA/EN/MainMenu/Products/Accessories/JabraA210/JabraA210) if you have a headset jack on your phone.

IMO you should look beyond BT. Other cordless headsets have 200+ foot ranges.

[MaxBurn]

What I have on this is a headset plug on the phone that looks like a standard RJ11. This first one you pointed out looks like it will do the trick but you have to dig into the users manual to find out:


Note: If you connect the Telephone Connection Cord to your telephone’s headset socket instead of the handset socket, this will enable the telephone’s line button. You can now answer and end calls by pressing
the line button instead of using the handset. The handset can remain connected to the telephone.

Wish there was a better way to find these, thanks though that gets me started.

[Sol]

If your sitting in front of a PC anyway a soft-phone and a cheap USB BT adaptor would be the cheapest solution.

If your using a SIP proxy/registrar to route the call just register both the phone and the soft phone with the same ID on the registrar . Both should receive the call and the first to pick up gets the session. (It's not defined whether the phones would receive the call concurrently or sequentially). If your using another protocol then I'm not really sure how you'd do it.

[MaxBurn]

We are using a Cisco automated call distribution system and I have a PIX unit here that is basically a hardware VPN, anything plugged into that is on our corporate network so our phone/computer pluggs into that. I don't have access to anything there configuration wise but I can sign into our stats to find out who is logged in talking etc, pretty neat. I don't want to touch anything there, just looking to use a headset with this phone.


Anyway I found what I was looking for. The feature is called Electronic Hook Switch and allows the handset to be picked up electrically instead of having a motor pickup the handset.

This manual page 5 helped me figure that out:
http://www.gnnetcom.com/NR/rdonlyres/18DE0664-34E8-48BE-9F4C-70BBC659006C/0/gn9120_ug_all.pdf

Reading my phone manual to see if it supports that and then if it does all we need to do is get headsets that support that feature for this phone. Thanks all.