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[jack]

So, I have a phone line. I need a phone. What should I do?

* Buy a bog-standard cheap basic plastic handset from shop/internet?
* Browse for a shiny!futuristic phone on geek toy websites?
* Fiddle with laptop until modem, and headphone mike function together as phone?
* Grab one free when someone throws out their 5000 old useless handsets?
* Something else?

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[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

phones that do both

. o 0 { cordless mobiles }
. o 0 { all mobiles are cordless }
. o 0 { ?! }

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Indeed, that's always boggled me. (The actual point, if it's not clear, being that cordless refers to phones doing without a cord what phones with cords do, ie send over wires, at sending over wire tarrifs. And the ones I was describing are ones that send over wires if they're in your house, and through the magic of the air if you're not.)

[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

magic! what do they do if they're in someone else's house? do they steal the wires?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I've no idea. Someone read about this on the internet so it might not even be true, though it certainly ought to be. I assume you'd have some key that you might or might not share with friends, or maybe they just interfere with each other if you use two in the same house, I don't know.