Have you ever wanted to sit at your desk with a proper phone sitting on your desk, except instead of paying for a landline have that desk phone connect to your mobile over Bluetooth? I haven’t, but I still kind of like the idea behind the BlueSIM.
The BlueSIM is essentially just the world’s bulkiest Bluetooth headset. But that’s okay, because it’s supposed to act as a landline phone. Connect it to your phone over Bluetooth, and you can copy over all (or 200 at least) your contacts to the phone. You can set it up to automatically connect to your mobile phone when in range, and it can pair with up to eight mobiles, although only one at a time.
The phone will also stream music from an A2DP mobile, although the inbuilt speakers are kind of average for music (but ok for voice).
For $299, it’s way too expensive for what it does. But as a first of its kind product, there’s still a lot of scope for bringing that price down and introducing new models.
[Bluesim]
Will
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 4:17 PMA good way to reduce brain cancer in the office at least…
Evan Drill
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 5:40 PMWho needs all them bells and whistles. If a simple rotary phone was good enough for my grandparents its good enough for me:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9017
Tim Webb
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 6:16 PMwell, hasn’t it become the tend for everyone who uses a mobile more than one a week to permanently wear a wireless BT headset, and walk around looking like a member of the Borg from star-trek?
this, to me, seems just as silly as the ‘CELL MATE’ shown on here the other day. (you know, the vice looking thing that clamps your mobile to your head?
Dean
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 8:58 PMWhy on earth would I want to pay mobile call rates to use a landline phone?
Now if it connected to my PC using bluetooth so that I could make Skype calls, that’s a different story.
gavin
Friday, May 21, 2010 at 9:16 PMhave to disagree with you on this, this is something i have been waiting for ages. You leave your phone in your bag and it’s automagically connected to your desk phone and you can make and answer calls from the desk phone.
Isn’t that the point or is this just a redundant idea i have?
im excited about this unquie bluetooth device. the price isn’t too bad considering i am throwing away $30 per month on a landline i dont use.
Paul
Friday, August 6, 2010 at 10:41 PMIt is very appealing if it means that it can be used in conjuction with an Antenna / Booster in low coverage areas, as mobile to mobile calls between family members are much cheaper than landline to mobile…..
George
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 2:12 PMI Saw this advertised and knew I must have one. But the experience has been quite disapointing. Call quality is less than ordinary. I actually think my car kit does a better job in relation to quality. The user manual is also less than ordinary. I’d like a picture of the phone with an arrow telling me what each button does, but this is not provided. What IS provided are a few basic words – it’s very much a teach yourself affair, and I am not a technophobe. The thing that REALLY gets me that if I bring my mobile too close to the phone it buzzes ! So really the mobile cant be on the desk when I make or take call. It also feels cheap – It doesnt feel like a quality instrument – probably because its not ! Would I buy another one? NO WAY !