invoxia Voice Bridge - landline On your Mobile

Summary: Connect this little box to your phone line (as if it were another phone), by Ethernet to a port on your home network router, and to power (USB power wall-wart supplied). Install an app on your iOS or Android smart-phone (or tablet), and then you can use the app to make outgoing calls on your land line, and take incoming calls (which ring on your smart-phone via the app as well as your land line phones). The remarkable thing is that this works even while you are away from home, as long as you have Internet access on your smart-phone (by mobile network or WiFi). Even with the smart-phone in sleep, the app is still alive in the background and wakes on an incoming call.THE GOOD: this product works brilliantly on iOS (in my case an iPad Pro Mini, but presumably any iPad or iPhone except the iPad is hard to hold to your ear!). Now works on Android too* (see below).* When purchased, the app for Android was still under development and only worked with some phones, in my case not with a Samsung Galaxy A3(2016). I was assured it worked with some smart-phones, and the developers said they are working hard to make the product compatible with all Android phones. As of February 2017, having requested access to the beta software testing, with my Android phone now on beta software version 5.2.1, my phone pairs with the Voice Bridge unit (when it wouldn't using 5.1.9), and I was able to place an outgoing call from my home WiFi network and from outside. I was having trouble picking up incoming calls though, and after discussion with the developers I was advised to disable power saving for the VoiceBridge app (Settings.. Battery.. App power saving), after which it has been working fine.Top marks to Invoxia, who seem very willing to help. If you find it's not compatible with your phone, contact them to see whether there is a software update available.THE BAD: there isn't any. It's a great product at a great price.TO BE AWARE OF: I found the product injected a noticeable hum or buzz on the phone line (although not apparent to external callers) when connected to my BT HomeHub4 or a Thomson TG585 router. This is not the case when a Netgear DGND3700 router is used, and I do not understand why there would be a difference.TO BE AWARE OF: In the previous version of this review, I queried the mechanism by which "On the Go" (ie connected via the Internet rather than the home WiFi) works. In their comment to this review, the developers say there is a server, using encrypted communications. This raises the question of what happens if for some reason Invoxia cease to be - presumably it will then only work at home and not On the Go (which is my reason for purchase). However, that said, this is one of only a very few options available.BONUS: I actually use the Voice Bridge downstream of a trueCall call filtering unit (intercepting or allowing through calls based on their caller-ID), and it works fine (only calls authorised to ring the home phones make it through the trueCall, and therefore I don't get nuisance calls to my VoiceBridge app either).

It works quite well with ios, although rarely the line is dropped. There is a bit echo but I have get used to it. On the android phone I have more problems because often I the line is dropped when I answer, but I have no problem to call. I recommend to avoid it if you are planning to use it on an android device until company release a non beta app. It very nice that I can use only one device (the ios one) and It works well even on 3G, outside my home.Edit: After having it quite a time, I have many problems with it. Many times needs to pull the power off in order to be able to use it again and some times it drops the line. In addition the voice quality is not so good. And this is about ios, at android device it is nearly impossible to answer a call, it drops the line and only if you call back you are able to speak. It is a perfect idea this product, but It is not working well, I will try to return it back and buy a dect phoneEdit 13/7/2017 : After latest app updates it works even worse, the line is dropped every few minutes, it is useless to me, so yesterday I bought a dect phone. I don't know if I have this problem because I use it with iPhone 4s, but the app says is compatible with ios9. I have contact with support desk, but the have not solve my problem yet.

This is a great idea and seems to work very well. I don’t have a phone at home so all calls go through to my mobile. Very easy to set up but calls do seem to have a very loud echo and you can hear yourself repeat everything which is very annoying so you wouldn’t want to have to long a conversation. I vary rarely used my home phone so it just a way of receiving any important calls you might need to pick up while not at home.

I love this little device. I have five phone extensions distributed around my house. Or, more accurately, I have five base stations distributed around the house, typically missing all the receivers when anyone calls!This device solves this problem. You simply connect it to your broadband router and telephone line (both require cable connections), power it up, then download the app and follow the set up. After that, whenever your home phone rings, your mobile acts like an extension phone and rings too. And best of all, you can answer calls from anywhere your mobile has an internet connection, so you can answer from your office, from a pub or when travelling.You have a few ringtone choices, which are distinctive, and the display makes it clear it’s a call from your home phone. And if the caller is in your mobile’s phone book, you’ll be told by name who is calling.Call quality does vary a little bit, depending on the quality internet connection and on a few occasions in my home I have experienced a slight echo effect, but nothing that makes it impossible to continue the call.Overall, this is not cheap and it’s not something that is essential. But I really like it and I find it genuinely useful. And if you’re starting from scratch, I suspect it is cheaper than buying multiple handsets to distribute around your home. If you can justify the cost, then highly recommended.

My landline phone has terrible quality of voice. I hoped this would help and to some extent it did. It's easy to set up and get working, I have an Android Pixel 3 and my partner and iPhone 8. We installed the corresponding apps and was initially impressed by the quality and loudness of sound through the app. However, problems became apparent the more we used it. A lot of the times the app doesn't ring and hence I miss calls but what is worse is that when I'm on a call I can never be sure it won't drop out. I even take the trouble to get closer to the WiFi AP so that I have full signal strength due to the worry of it dropping the call, however, this appears not to help.It could be a good product and is exactly what I'm looking for, however, it is let down by the quality of the app and quality of the system, it really needs far more testing and quality control.