I’m sure you’ve seen their irritating ads on TV. Ok, what product’s ads are NOT irritating, except for the occasionally clever one?
It’s a neat idea: a hardware device that hooks up to any broadband inet conx and is instantly ready to use, you can hook up a regular phone to it for your ‘voice interface’.
They claim PC Week or some other major reviews positive,
=== but ===
a search for +”magic jack” +complaint
comes up with 13,100 hits
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2B%22magic+jack%22+%2Bcomplaint&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
Anyone used this?
should I just go with one of the free PC VoIP softwares?
I have a cell phone, and would just use it occasionally for really long calls. For example was talking to someone about website related matters for 40 minutes the other day, and almost ran down my cell phone battery to zero. Or for the occasional stupid webinar that DOESN’T do web streaming sound. (they are usually 40 minutes to an hour and some like to have people on phone so they can talk to them more easily as not everyone has a mic hooked up to their PC for voice)
1) have you used the Magic Jack?
2) are you STILL using the Magic Jack if you did get one?
3) one ocmplaint said ‘staticy’ – is the connection staticy all the time or just in some places?
4) does comcast or others try to sabotage it so they can sell their own VoIP?
5) do you need to install any software on a PC or does it just work ‘as it’ without PC booted?
6) I read some customer service horror stories online, are they apocrophyl (bogus) or real like dell due to their apparent huge volume?
7) anything else I didn’t think of you want to say about it?
we’re all trying to save money in this down economy, will this save me money or is it an utter waste?
