Tonight I just got through installing a dedicated VOIP PBX server on an old intel core 2 6700 machine I had lying around. Wow how cool!
I can now ditch my old crappy DECT handsets and am using my various softphones installed on PC's, laptops and iphones around the house as extensions.
So I now use the iphone (with BT headset) to answer or make calls on my home VOIP number or my headsets for the PCs.
I installed 3CX Phone System on the old PC as the main PBX, 3CXPhone on the PC's & Laptops and 3CXPhone for iPhone. (using wifi to connect iphones/laptops to PBX)
It backgrounds on iphone too without chewing battery!
Best of all it was all
free software and is a windows based PBX which is really easy to configure vs the Linux Asterisk versions. So if any of you are using a VOIP service at home you should give this a go!
Also an android softphone version too...
3CX Phone System FREE edition is a fully functional product - it supports an unlimited number of extensions and does NOT time out. It is supported only via the 3CX Forums.
You get:
Call Logging
Call Reporting
Blind Call Transfer
Attended Call Transfer
Call Forward on Busy
Call Forward on No Answer
Call Routing (DID)
Caller ID
Conference Calling
Auto Attendant / Digital Receptionist
Voice Mail
Music on Hold
Ring Groups
Hunt Groups
Central Phonebook
Receive Voice Mail via Email
This is basically a slightly cutdown commercial version completely free.
The paid version does a lot more but nothing you really need as a home user!
My PC softphone.... looks identical on the iphone except for the side panels.
Server config screen
www.3cx.com