This is a great feature if you have a office or home-office number along with your cell phone and you’re tired of having to check for new voicemails in multiple places.

With this feature, all your voicemails will be in one convenient place, where you can check and retrieve messages using any phone, from the web, or via email. Plus, receive notifications on your mobile phone when anyone leaves a voicemail on your home-office line or cell phone, showing who called, when they called, and how long of a message they left.

Connect the PhoneGnome box to your home-office line and activate Premium Voicemail (only $19.95 per year, or approx $1.66 per month). PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail includes a free US direct-dial number for accessing Voicemail from any phone easily. You can use this number with the “Conditional Forwarding” feature of your mobile phone service to use the same PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail for your home-office line and cell phone.

For GSM phones (AT&T or T-Mobile), on your mobile phone, dial the following sequence:

*004*1number*11#

For instance, if your PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail direct-dial number is 253-555-4321, you would dial the following on your call phone: *004*12535554321*11#

For Verizon, you would dial: *7112535554321

Now when someone calls your cell phone or home-office number and leaves a message, it will go to your PhoneGnome Premium Voicemail. You can receive the message in email, so if you have a cell phone that supports email, you can listen to the message immediately using the phone’s email app. If you have an iPhone (or Android phone), there is a custom interface to select and play specific messages without having to navigate a voice menu. Or, retrieve and listen to messages via the web on your PC:

Finally, you can always retrieve messages the “old fashioned way” simply by dialing the direct-dial number from any phone, or dial **123 on your PhoneGnome phone (home office phone).

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While nobody likes to pay for a landline, there are some benefits to a “house phone” especially if it’s free.

PhoneGnome allows users to enjoy many benefits of a house phone, with no monthly fees.

• Greater Reliability – avoid problems with weak wireless signals, dead batteries, and other limits of cell phones.
• Clearer Quality – call around the world with crystal clear reception
• Save Money – avoid burning cell phone minutes when at home

There are other free SIP services – the advantage of PhoneGnome is easy automated setup. Simply connect the PhoneGnome box and complete a simple automated web site registration and you’re up and running in minutes. Other services require complicated manual configuration of the hardware, such as SIP proxy, STUN server, port mapping etc. With PhoneGnome, it’s all automatic. Plus, you get all the other free benefits of PhoneGnome service, like free voicemail-to-email, call recording, softphone, on-line call logs, missed call notifications, mobile phone integration, hop-on/hop-off, PBX integration, free auxiliary accounts, and more.

There’s even a “Bring Your Own Device” option if you already have compatible hardware or want to purchase the hardware elsewhere.

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Many people around the world have connected the PhoneGnome Box to their VoIP ATA hardware box, such as the ooma device, their cable phone box, or any other service that does’t come with a Softphone.

The free PhoneGnome Software included with PhoneGnome accounts turns any PC or laptop into a fully-functioning remote telephone that allows you to use your existing phone service, such as ooma, magic jack, or Cable phone, to place and receive calls anywhere you have your PC and an Internet connection.

PhoneGnome allows users to use their Vonage, cable TV, ooma, or other phone service from a PC or other SIP compatible device or software – even iPhone or Android phones.

Open SIP credentials allow users to use an existing phone service as a “trunk” with an Asterisk or other PBX. Share it with frends and family!

Buy the PhoneGnome box and create free accounts for your friends to use with the free PhoneGnome softphone so you can all each other free.

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This was the original application for which the PhoneGnome box was designed. Connect the PhoneGnome box to an existing landline to achieve two objectives:

1. Lower costs
2. Additional Features and Benefits

1. Lower Costs

Get the absolute cheapest landline service, and still have Three-way Calling, Call Forwarding, Call Transfer, Speed Dial, Telemarketer Screen, Do Not Disturb, and more, free with no monthly fees.

Use VoIP for long-distance calls seamlessly and automatically. Lowest possible rates – as low as free for many calls. Nothing to learn. Save on all calls made in the household. No computer needed and no software to install. No special phone or training of the household required – they won’t even know it’s VoIP.

2. Additional Features and Benefits

There are many features provided with PhoneGnome, but here are a few of the most liked:

1. Missed call notifications – get an SMS when on your mobile phone when you miss a call on your home phone.
2. Telemarketing Screening and Do Not Disturb Family-time features.
3. Softphone to place and receive calls anywhere you have your PC and an Internet connection. Use the free PC software or use the PhoneGnome Open SIP credentials with any softphone, ATA, Asterisk, iPhone, Android, etc. SIP software of your choice.

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PhoneGnome is a very flexible product that can be applied to a wide variety of situations. The many PhoneGnome features and options can be assembled into different results much in the way that a given set of Lego blocks can be assembled in different ways to produce many different results. Rather than go through each and every feature one by one, over the course of the next several blog posts, we will describe some of the most common applications of PhoneGnome to real world situations.

These blog posts will describe some of the most common ways that real people are using PhoneGnome to improve their lives in one way or another.

We will put all these articles into a separate “How To” Category so they will be easy to find and use as a reference.