Cobra PhoneLynx Bluetooth Cell to Home Phone Connection System (BT 215)

I actually did a search for a product like this after I thought of how useful it would be. Having no idea if it existed or not. I had my land line phone number transferred to a cell phone and linked it into this device. It paired up easily and works just as advertised. If I leave the house with my cell phone my wife can use the second bluetooth connection to use her own phone with the house system if she wants. Pairing can be automatic as you come and go with no input from you if you wish assuming your phone supports autopairing.Be aware of the following :1.) This doesn't make every phone in your house magically work with this unit, only the one it's hooked to. Ideally you use one of those systems with a central base and satellite handsets all over the house. That works great.2.) There is no caller ID. Cell phones don't use caller ID and thus there is nothing to send to your handset. Not even the # of who is calling will show up. Of course you can still look at your cell phone for the # (and name if it's in your contacts)3.) Older blutooth may not work with this. I tried it with an old LG enV and it would not find this unit. My newer Intensity 3 (and intensity 2) phone found it just fine.4.) Call quality is cell phone quality. There isn't anything this device can do to change that. Make sure the cell is in a spot with good reception and a solid connection to the unit for maximum usability.Overall this unit works exactly as advertised and does its job well (thus 5 stars).

We have been tired of Comcast nickel and dimeing us for the last couple of years. The cost of our Triple Play seems to keep going up, so I thought I'd add a ten dollar line with my ATT cell plan and close down our phone and tv with Comcast. I decided to try out the PhoneLynx because it was the cheaper solution, and I've been using Cobra radar detectors for years.Accessory Highway was the reseller via Amazon that shipped the PhoneLynx. It arrived quickly, and was really very easy to setup with my home system. The bluetooth pairing was easy and quick. Calls in and out were mostly clear and there was only a slight delay while the call connected on the cell phone side. The weak link at that time was ATT, which only provided for 2 bars at the location in the house that I have my phone base station. The only drawback in the beginning was the number of rings that my base station would allow before the cell phone would roll into the cell voice mail. Because of the slight delay between the cell ringing and then the home system ringing, it would roll to the cell's voice mail after 2 home system rings. I "fixed" this by having the cell auto answer after 5 seconds. Callers would hear 3 rings, then the phone would pick up in time to hear the home system ring once, and then it would go to the home system's voicemail. Of course, the drawback here is that anything going on in the house would be heard briefly before hitting the home voicemail. Whatever though... it worked.After a week, the PhoneLynx started beeping, and the pairing was lost. I manually reconnected it on the cell at 2AM, and then again at 2:30AM. The beeping was really annoying. I had thought that the refrigerator door was ajar. Later that day my wife said that she couldn't hear anyone speaking when she answered the phone. The PhoneLynx stopped sending or receiving audio. I called Cobra support in Chicago after trying everything I could think of. They were nice enough, but the only option was to send it to to be fixed, with a potential turnaround of 2-3 weeks. I asked for and received an RMA from Accessory Highway. They were very good about the return, and, while I only sent out the device today, I'm sure my refund will be prompt.If the PhoneLynx had no issues, I'd still be happily using it today. 3 stars, due to it hosing up after a week.

This works pretty well. It connected flawlessly to my iPhone and also to my wife's. I hooked it into the back of my existing home phone base station and was able to make a call through my iPhone immediately.The call quality is noticeably different than on my cell phone but isn't much worse than what I get on my home phone on a land line in the past. There is a short delay when answering the home phone while using the PhoneLynx, which can be a bit odd to get used to, but it hasn't dropped calls or anything.This would get 5 stars if it didn't have two problems - it beeps all the time and it doesn't always auto-connect the bluetooth to my phone. The beeps can be really annoying. It beeps when the phones connect, when you get too far away, and sometimes for no reason at all. The bluetooth auto-connect is a bigger problem but I've gotten in the habit of making sure it's connected when I put my phone down at home. Strange combinations of connection issues have happened such as my cell phone not being connected, I get a call (which rings on my cell phone), I answer it on my cell phone only for it to connect to the PhoneLynx right then and I suddenly can't talk on my cell phone without switching the audio source.

Works great!

WastE of money

its nice and small connected to the iPhone super easy..to android was a bit more tedious. this unit has a fairly loud high pitched beep that it blares when a phone connects or disconnects (arriving and leaving its Bluetooth range.) it beeps twice when this happens. once two phones are paired, it is very difficult to "dial out" on the home phone using the second paired phone..online it simply told me to dial 2 then the number but that does not work. the included instructions say dial 2 on the home phone and dial from the mobile device..very inconvenient. overall this is decent and the sound quality of calls through this is actually pretty good.only thing really keeping this thing from getting 4 or potentially 5 stars is caller ID data from in bound calls does not show up at all!! have to check your mobile phone to see who is calling.overall works great if you have one phone but with two its a bit of a flop.

Did not work. There was no problem returning it. All went well and I am pleased even thought the product did not work for me.

Great product, works as intended.