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motorola e51 cordless phone - ideal for internet phone services?

tired of waiting for me to make a decision about whether to replace our sole vtech gigaphone that's barely still functioning, she took matters in her own hands and went out and purchased a motorola e51 5.8 GHz cordless phone. always thoughtful and knowing that i use dorky VoIP phone services like skype she was pleased to see that it was "ideal for internet phone services".

but the phone has no wifi capability and there's no alternative way to connect it to a network so it's not like you can switch over to a internet phone service in the way you can with something like DECT DUALphone. there's not a single mention of how it's ideal for internet phone services in the manual and there's no a word regarding the purported feature on the motorola e51 website.

as best as i can tell, you can't use the phone in any with any VoIP provider or even connect it to the internet, so it's hard to imagine on what basis they're making the claim. i suppose because it operates in a frequency doesn't tend to interfere with wifi networks that an overzealous marketer might think it's nifty to claim that it's "ideal" because someone can talk on the cordless phone while someone else is talking on a voip service and the cordless phone won't render the voip service useless. but most normal people like kris will just think that's more than slightly disingenuous. it's odd enough that i'd like to give my former employer the benefit of the doubt and assume that there was a product packaging snafu that nobody deemed was important enough to warrant pulling product from the shelves.

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