Comments on: MagicJack’s Making Cell Phone Fees Disappear

By: handcheck

handcheck — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:41:08 +0000

I have a Majic Jack Plus, Bought a IPod Touch for $99.00, Pay $30.00 A month for 4 gigs of data. Bought a cable that converts Cat5 to Usb2, for $10.99 [Cables Unlimited], Majic Plus, allowed me to port my home phone number for free,you Don’t need a computer to use Majic Jack plus, I have a USB port built into my Car.

I got rid of my home Phone, 69.65 a month bill, Ditched my Local TV Cable company, $107.85 a month. Ditched my cell Phone Company, $218,85 per month with a 21% discount. So all I have is a Majic Jack Plus, Paid for five years, $79.95Paid once see them in 2016, I own the IPod Touch so no bill there, it gives me 5 WiFi connections, you can port TV programs from it to, the new flat screen TV’s great picture, Rent Streaming Movies from Netflix and Block Buster, with the Cat5 to Usb2 Cable, you port from the IPod Touch Dock to Usb to Cat5 plugs ino Majic Jack Plus, In my Car I had saved my old Bag Phone, all you need is the head part, plugs into the Majic Jack Plus Perfect, which is attached to my Car Sterro unit, hands free.

So no home cable or DSL crap or bill, for a Lan connection, No Cable TV bill, No Home Phone Bill no Cell Phone bill, when done this way in auto Any place I go, I have acts lke Feels like Cell phone service, Have any movie I want, any TV stations I want, The WiFi come from the IPod Touch, for my computers, when at home or on road, I use a old StarTec phone when walking any place make calls to anywhere from anywhere I want, have voicemail, Alot of stuff the Majic Jack Plus fits in my pocket, the cell phone and IPod Touch connect to my belt, small not heavy at al, ost important is, What I use to pay for home phone cell phone cabe Tv and Cable land connection and Cell phone, together was $486.37 a month with no over minutes, Now my Monthly cost is 30/bucks a month thats replaces everything! Savings $456 a month, works like a cell phone, uses like a cell phone, looks like a cell phone can go anywhere plus 411 is free, Yes I am a MIT Grad PHd in Eng., what I save a month from before is more than a car payment plus, Love my Majic jack Plus and my IPod Touch, oh yes can play games with others on line like a play station too, I feel like I was reborn back into the 60′s when a single home phone party line was about 15 bucks, TV was free, and it cost a 1,50 to go to a local movie house, with popcorn and a drink per person, except I get to go any time of day!

This device is great, would not trade for the world! Be inventive, it works great! I love the USA!!!!!!!!!!

By: eviltweety

eviltweety — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:04:19 +0000

T-mobile has UMA, and both service providers' Android phones have apps for Vonage (free calling in the US, no minutes used..and no you don't have to have active service..my 3g phone calls now..canceled my acct in October)

By: slushpuppymals

slushpuppymals — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:34:13 +0000

MagicJack has worked very well (here in Canada, with a Canadian number). I use it as a primary phone, on a good computer with a good DSL connection with a triple set of normal handsets. Used on a poor computer, with a poor internet connection, it barely functions.

It does not usually have the ability to dial to most 1-800 numbers, and cannot handle massive downloads occuring while a telephone call is occuring - however these are pretty easy to remedy (call the tolled line and don't dload while telephoning). It does drop a call occassionally, but that is simply the Internet failing occassionally, not the device.

USA is cheaper for cell phone data/call plans by about 25 - 40% depending on where you go and how hard you look, in comparison to Canada. Only basic text/phone 'unlimited plans are really in this country. And a time- and data-limited, but reasonable Smartphone package for North American coverage (from Canada) is in the neighborhood of $100 (6 gigs data + 350 minutes, etc.

By: daniel7rusu

daniel7rusu — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:13:38 +0000

The magic jack is sweet. It's saved me alot of money. I recommend it to all my friends. Check out: http://www.easymagicjack.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.easymagicjack.org

By: mark

mark — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:19:11 +0000

Yes you got to have High Speed Internet service 15 meg down and 1 meg up my ping time is 20 mil

it woks just like A land line phone

By: hockey

hockey — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:36:06 +0000

MJ/cell is as "mobile" as the computer it is plugged into.
can be used in the auto if your ride is close to 'hotspot', which is almost everywhere there are people.
on trips, when i make my pitstops i check forra wireless broadband connection. if i find one, i can use the MJ to make calls. toggle switch in MJ program allows use of the built in speaker/mic on my laptop for 'hands free' calling. cell phone not needed AND i'm not paying for the broadband either.
eliminates bogus 'roaming' charges from celly carrier. good vacation strategy as well, broadband avail almost anywhere near hotels.
at home i use simple traditional 'cordless' phone plugged into MJ.
$14.95 a year???
thank you sir, may have another

By: youdontneedmyname

youdontneedmyname — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:53:43 +0000

I really don't like it. I mean it's basically just regular magic jack, but instead of plugging a land line phone into it, it works with cell phones. But, it ONLY works in your home. It doesn't let you take the cell anywhere that's a not a cell phone dead zone and use it there. I thought the whole point of cell phones is you can use them wherever you want. That's why are they called mobile phones. This device only let's you use them in your home, not out and about.

By: Herbert Cruz

Herbert Cruz — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:24:43 +0000

me parece pero tpero me queda el beneficio de la duda el texto aquí ! Herbert

By: Xybertweaker

Xybertweaker — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:36:17 +0000

To see all specs on ur phone u can check out http://www.gsmarena.com," rel="nofollow">www.gsmarena.com, this site will also give u specs to US based and Euro Based phones as well as phones yet to be released.

MagicJack can be used in any country once u know how to configure it, in fact it has been tried, tested and successful.

Just make sure both parties have ample bandwidth any speed higher than 387kbs.

I have been working with the ITU for the past 7yrs, and have extensive knowledge abt wireless devices and cell companies.

Want insider tips, make friends with a telecommunications Pro (Myself), Radioshack employee or a Sales rep for cellphones.

By: Xybertweaker

Xybertweaker — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:14:26 +0000

GSM has 4 frequencies ranges in which a phone can use at any time; 800,900,1800,1900 MHz . GSM phones are either dual,tri or quad band phones. I know this bcuz I worked in the telecommunications industry for a while, and know the operating frequencies for devices that start using the radio spectrum from 3KHz to 4.5 GHz , that's would include AM radio up to Satellite signals (GPS service). I also have and still use a Motorola v360 (great phone btw). Bluetooth has limited range and even a weaker signal strength freq # under 80Mhz , Using the bluetooth band u have to complete with other devices lik ur hands-free set, car hands-free set and other ppls hands free sets, remember you are all using the same freq. so u will have interference within a scope of 10 -20 ft depending on line of sight. Freq. from 100 -250 range have these; all over-the-air channels and 50 cable channels, police, air force, army, navy, NOAA, civilian and amature bands. (HF – High freq. band ranges from 30Mhz – 300Mhz) CDMA and TDMA use the freq. bands but with their own unique carrier's encryption code (CDMA when tested only goes up to 950MHz) .

TDMA – Time Division Multiple Access, CDMA – Code Division Multiple Access, GSM – Global Service for Mobiles

So plz ppl don't confuse yourself with technical aspects of GSM freq. as well as cellphone carriers freq. There are a lot of free services out there that smart ppl lik cell carriers exploit for money. I know for a fact that a lot of ppl are using the HF band to talk for FREE example: from Russia to Brazil daily, overall equipment costs under -$150 USD, send signals as far as MARS – Priceless.

By: Gadgets and gifts for men

Gadgets and gifts for men — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:03:55 +0000

The gadgets looks cool to me, so no problem. :D

By: canadian

canadian — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:53:27 +0000

apple could do it, but for now it would work because if you had on in your home, you can simply go to the settings and tap “carrier”, where it will scan and find the magicjack. You tell it to connect and it works! It could happen

By: mark ali

mark ali — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:07:17 +0000

cud it make to cell phones in the us or only landlines?

By: calling cards

calling cards — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:34:33 +0000

nice gadget, that was the technology can do and help us in many ways like improving more machine, invented a device which can repair a things, and also our medicine which is the list in the most person needed to live in this world, and that gadget is a cellphone and you know cellphone help us to give a communication to our relatives around the world

By: vin

vin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:42:25 +0000

You comment made no sense. Its not Bluetooth at all and it uses the cell phones signal and then sends the call over the web via a magic jack service.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:35:19 +0000

I use a Jabra bluetooth speakerphone to make calls with MagicJack plugged into a bluetooth-enabled computer. Could a bluetooth-enabled cellphone take the place of the Jabra?

I do not own a cellphone so I can't test the idea.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:00:07 +0000

I have used the regular magic jack for two years and I love it. As long as you have high speed bandwidth then your phone service is as good as the good old fashion phone. I signed up for “dry loop” 30.00 a month (no phone service needed) High Speed Internet service. And I surf and watch videos on my PC while using the phone it's awesome and if this new magic jack supports cell phones then I'm in. Keep up the great work magic jack you have saved me a lot of money if you can come up with a way to just provide Internet service we could totally drop the phone companies. Thanks Gary

By: dang

dang — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:14:51 +0000

Isn't AT&T just charging your for the data you are sending/receiving then? Or, are you using MagicJack and still getting charged?

By: jayjay

jayjay — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:31:35 +0000

no im a pre-paid but what i mean is it's connected to my router

By: dang

dang — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:11:10 +0000

Do you have an unlimited data plan?

By: jayjay

jayjay — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:06:15 +0000

how can you do that bro because i have a phone with wifi, and everytime i connect it to my router to check email or chat at&t charged me in my every minute that i'm connected to my router. thar's how crazy the at&t.

By: leswards

leswards — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:44:24 +0000

i know you know better than that, the time you didn't spend reading up on the keywords in this thread you wasted on writing your wrong opinion, picocells are to cellphones like your ipod fm transmitter, they are low powered radios covering short distances and therefore excempt from frequency management authorities, to the service provider they're good only if its theirs, however, magicjacks version is a service providers business model nightmare, furthermore, the bluetooth stack never allowed a cell phone to become headphones, it's just not in the protocol unless this has changed is harder to accomplish than a 50 buck picocell.

just need one thats open source, to use them old nokias with skype, that would be sweet

Leswards

By: SE

SE — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:10:53 +0000

thank you, good point. it made no sense…'uses cell towers/frequencies and viop'…? and for anyone considering a femtocell purchase, save your money, as we shouldn't be paying the mega-carriers additional monies for a service (i.e.-coverage in your own home!!!!) that should already be provided…and that we are currently paying for! ta ta

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:04:10 +0000

If you own a phone with biult in Wi-Fi (like the HTC Shadow 2009) and you have a wireless router in your home, you do not need this.

By: Jacob Ross

Jacob Ross — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:08:17 +0000

GSM only goes up to 800MHz, Verizon and Sprint use CDMA which uses 800, 900, and 1900Mhz, There is no 1800Mhz frequency fone.

By: spys

spys — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:17:20 +0000

Seems great but I've heard some real stories about the original Magic Jack. Apparently it used to be great but as more people got on to it alot of the calls don't get made and instead get a message telling that the available connections are overloaded. So you end up not being able to use it most of the time and really can only use it if you make calls at irregular hours of the day like early in the morning when post people are asleep.

I assume it's using the same network structure as Magic Jack so prepare for even more overloading.

By: Nappzman

Nappzman — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:25:13 +0000

Very interesting disruptive technology. I also wonder if this is only for outgoing calls? if it truly works like a cell tower the carriers wouldn't be able to detect this as part of their grid or an adjacent interconnect carrier so the call would get routed through to the cellphone via traditional means. I guess you could be virtually anywhere there is a broadband connection and use a GSM phone with this tower.

By: Chris Siburt

Chris Siburt — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:13:22 +0000

My thought exactly Sprint wanted to charge me for my Airave, but thankfully I was in a bargaining position being out of contract on 1 of my 2 lines. They gave me the device for free and waived the monthly fee, but since a large majority of my calls go out over my own Internet connection by rights they should be giving me a discount for lowering the load from their tower. Oh well, I guess.

This device has promise, I'd like to see it in a CDMA version, and I also wonder if I could use a non activated GSM phone to send and receive calls?

Maybe I'll go ahead and bite the bullet and switch to a T-Mobile month to month plan on a Nexus One and pick up one of these little toys for in the home calls. I do loathe cellular contracts.

By: Alvin

Alvin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:03:13 +0000

can you just make call or will you be able to receive calls

By: J7

J7 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:21:43 +0000

Makes me curious, since cell phones are programmed to use certain tower codes only, do we have to know how to reprogramm our phones, what about the phone lock codes. Or do they magically have a list of tower codes to put in their device.