During the past five years, with digital cellular networks expanding at an exponential rate, telephoning the portable way has become a way of life for many, particularly those mobile ones in sales or a service-oriented business who must stay in close contact with office and clients. A mobile phone also comes in handy for keeping tabs of latchkey kids and the baby-sitter, or perhaps simply to phone home and recheck what it was you were supposed to pick up at the supermarket.
Some units even offer options of a microphone and speaker for no-hands operation.
When in an automobile, our preference is the no-hands phone because it allows the operator, which invariably also means the vehicle's driver, to keep both hands safely mounted on the steering wheel and the mind more closely focused on the important business of driving the car while phoning. A new hands-free phone solution comes from Hammacher Schlemmer with the world's first universal wireless mobile phone headset. Keep it within five feet of a mobile phone and you can hear and talk with clear acoustics and sound clarity. A base unit plugs into the vehicle's power point and a jack links to the phone. The headset works through an adaptor with different mobile phones, including various models by Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola StarTac.