The Phone at Home Gets Smart
By David Pogue
“Nobody” has home phone lines anymore. “Nobody” reads printed newspapers. “Nobody” wants books on paper. Sorry, hotshots, but several hundred million nobodies still have home phone lines, subscribe to printed papers and read printed and bound books. So it’s reassuring to find out that a few engineers are still advancing the state of the art in a technology that the 28-yearolds have given up for dead: the home phone. In the last couple of months, two electronics giants — Panasonic and Verizon — have tried to drag the thing into 2009. The Panasonic’s latest cordless phone, for example, contains a digital answering machine, and you can park extension handsets around the house; they all communicate wirelessly. The phone also offers Do Not Disturb, which lets you establish certain hours during which the phone doesn’t ring. The Verizon home phone can, for the first time, also send text and picture messages to cellphones. Right from the kitchen counter, you can text anyone in real time. Disponível em: Acesso em: 08 ago. 2009. [Adaptado]
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