The perfect gadget
If you are fed up with exaggerated phone bills, Magic Jack is the solution for you. US and Canada, and maybe by the end of the year, international calls, are the states where you can use this gadget available. At a price of only 40$, it offers great services.
Installation was simple: We plugged the 0.9-ounce Magic Jack into a USB port on a Windows-powered PC (Mac OS X drivers will be available by the end of the year), and about 30 seconds later the bundled software automatically loaded. In order to make phone calls, you have to register on the site, and after that, to connect an ordinary phone landline to your gadget. Users who wish to forget a traditional handset can opt to use a cordless phone.
Whether you are on the road or home, using this gadget will still be available. Dial using the keyboard or an onscreen keypad, and you can talk using either a headset or your computer’s built-in microphone and speaker.
About the provided services, you must know that is better than the most cell phones. Friends and colleagues reported only the occasional crackle and pop, and we didn’t encounter a single dropped call on our tests. This level of quality and stability is courtesy of Magic Jack’s proprietary network, which maintains a solid, reliable connection that the company claims can’t be achieved on traditional VoIP channels.
Magic Jack doesn’t skimp on features, either; it comes packed with all the amenities you’d expect from a phone service, including voicemail (you can receive messages even when you’re offline), caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, and emergency 911 dialing.
Priced at a reasonable $39.95, Magic Jack comes with a year’s worth of service {an annual subscription runs $19.95 after that, with international prepaid packages starting for as little as $5}. Although it’s designed for use with a single phone line (multiple lines require a Magic Jack for each) and your PC has to be turned on to use it, the Magic Jack is a fine way to cut your monthly telephone bill without making too many tradeoffs.
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