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1 Landline + 1 Cellphone = 1 Handset

WHAT’S the best-selling piece of personal electronics on earth? What’s more popular than computers, camcorders, digital cameras or even iPods?

It’s the cellphone. Cellphone sales dwarf everything else. According to the Gartner research firm, 40 percent of the earth’s population will be carrying cellphones by 2009. Developing countries are skipping the landline phase altogether, going from no phones to wireless ones.

Using the RCA Cell Docking System, you can use one handset for making landline and cellphone calls.

In this country, we’re stuck in transition. Most people have both kinds of phones: wired and wireless. They maintain two phone numbers, have two voice-mail setups and pay two bills, without ever fully appreciating how redundant and silly that is. And here’s the kicker: Most people use their home phone lines, running up the home phone bills, during precisely the hours when using the cellphone instead would be free (nights and weekends).

David Pogue

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/04/technology/circuits/04pogue.html?ex=1123819200&en=0180e07a30f50264&ei=5070&emc=eta1

(Many thanks to Rob Ferris for passing this along. Russ)

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