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Quick Takes: Turn Your Visor Into a Cordless Phone

Arkon Networks' Parafone can make calls directly from your Visor's address book.

By Joel Strauch, PCW Print   

Can't bear to be parted from your PDA, but love to wander while on the phone? Arkon Networks' Parafone Springboard module lets you keep it all together by converting your Handspring Visor into a cordless phone. You'll pay quite a bit for the convenience, however.

The 900-MHz Parafone can make calls directly from your Visor's address book, or speed-dial any of 50 preset names with a single click. It offers the usual cordless phone abilities and range--300 feet inside, 1000 feet outside. I lost the signal at 700 feet, but an intrusive tree may have been responsible. The included headset lets you enter data into your Visor while you're connected on the phone--and helps to keep your screen clean. The sound quality of my shipping unit was good, similar to that of other 900-MHz cordless phones I've used. The module's charger base doubles as a USB hot-sync cradle for most Visor models.

Still, at $119, the Parafone makes a pretty expensive cordless phone. Is wandering worth it? Arkon Networks.

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