sharing a phone line between two phones

[Technoid]

Interesting

[chaoliang]

Exactly. They are market leader, and they do have nice features, but their reliability sucks.

Doesn't you GF's phone still have warranty on it? If not, and you don't need it anymore, you could send it to me and I could try to fix it

AZ

Yes, she still has the warranty. But she was so upseted by the service of the local telephone dealer that she has almost no courage to go to ask them again.

[chaoliang]

do you mean that there actually are phones that dont alow you to "lift the reciever" and dial a number?? (or listen to the dial tone)

AZ meant the "call button" - dial numbers before one makes the call, am I right, AZ? The telephone in my office has this button. I was wrong to say that most of the phones don't have this one. Actually, phones with display should all have this button, I suppose.

Of course you can just lift the phone and dial the numbers. But some of the telephones (with display) don't allow you to dial more than 18 digits. If you dial more digits, the last digit will be simply replaced.