I know a couple of people who have wanted to ditch their landline in favour of a cellphone, but for whom the convenience of having multiple cordless handsets has outweighed the potential financial savings; now I know to just point them in the direction of Panasonic’s Link to Cell system.  Reviewed by Gadgetell’s JG Mason, Link to Cell consists of a Bluetooth-equipped base station and up to six DECT handsets; it can plug into your regular landline, if you’ve still got one, but the clever part is that it can simultaneously connect to two cellphones and funnel any incoming or outgoing calls on them through the DECT handsets.

Of course, nothing is perfect and while JG seems bowled over by the system as a whole, there’s still room for improvement.  Not being able to access the cellphone phonebook from the DECT handsets seems a pretty big issue to me – I have an appalling memory for numbers – and the design of the units themselves is pretty clunky compared to some DECT systems I’ve seen.  Just two cellphones might not be enough for the average family, too, although other Link to Cell equipped phones I’ve seen in Panasonic’s range can hook up to five simultaneously, each having their own ringtone so you know when yours is calling.

Panasonic’s Link to Cell is shipping now, with a base station and single handset package priced at $99.99.