GV CID Won't Even Support A CID NUMBER On My ATT 882

[Stu-be]

I realize that the ATT 882 is not a mobile phone, but since I want to keep using it along with the mobile, I thought that I might be able to get an answer from the combined experience of the people that use this forum.
IMHU, the ATT (Lucent, later) 2-line 882 is just the best darn office phone ever made. Great speakerphone, Hidden QWERTY keyboard! vast number storage with catagorization, and tons of other freature that make it a pleasure to use. I am on my fourth unit since the mid- 90's. If you are familiar with the phone, you will understand how desperate I am to make this work. If not, this email will probably sound like it isn't important.

Here's the problem. I recently switched from Comcast to Google Voice with an OBi100 for my home service. As you probably know, GV gives you only caller id numbers, not the associated names. That would be just fine, but the CID number won't even register inside the ATT 882. It rings, but errors. I have to use an auxhillary CID box just to aquire the CID number. Unfortunately, even using this cumbersome unit I still cannot get the phone number into the phone to apply it to the many 882 features.

I should note here, that the Panasonic cordless system in the house does get the CID number, but makes a so-so desk unit. I should also note that previous VOIPs from Cox and Comcast have worked fine in the phone .

Since there are no other QWERTY desk phones out there with these features, I would like to get GV CID to work inside this phone. Any recommendations? Can I do anything to get CID to read within the ATT 882 Thanks.

[ziddey]

OBi might be the one to ask about this since it's responsible for delivering the CID. Don't know of any other elegant solutions like the OBi. If you really wanted to use the 882, you might have to build your own ATA.

[gunterm]

Actually I don't think GV strips the caller ID info out anymore. My GV points to a free NY number from call centric and I've been getting CNAM for at least 2 months.

[foncall]

Try the setup in the ObiTalk Forum post on the Simon Telephony CID service. I'd post a link, but I don't have that privelege here yet. It works on my Panasonic phones. Don't know how well it will work on your ATT 822, but it is easy enough to try.

[Stu-be]

That Michigan Telephone -- Simon Link is a little too complex for me. My eyes kind of glazed over somewhere between the second and third article I was asked to refer to before beginning. I am simply trying to add something to my existing Google Voice system that is working just fine. I just want to know what time it is, not how to build a watch.

I am going to attempt to use the explanation on how to Use CallCentric to get the CNAM as presented in OBiTalk. It seems like a much simpler alternative and the $1.50 per monthly is worth it. If that doesn't work, I will probably just wait until GV adds CNAM. Some sources make it sound like Google plans to begin charging for GV after 2012. Hey, that's only five months away. If GV start charging for the service, I don't see how they could offer service without the benefits of CNAM.

[gunterm]

Obihai uses the same interface to place/receive calls as the gmail calling plugin so it would be interesting to check and see if it shows CNAM there. It must be a feature GV is beta testing because I was not getting it after porting in originally.

[Stu-be]

Callcentric is now on my OBi, but to no avail. Yes, I now show name and number on my Panasonic cordless units and my cheaper/newer ATT 958, but still get the "error avail" message on the ATT 882. Strange that this new CallCcentric CNAM should betreated so differently from the CNAM used by Comcast and Cox on the phone. Guess it may finally be time to cut the cord on my ATT 882's after 17 years.

This is 2012. There must be an affordable deskphone with a clear speakerphone and decent size screen that allows you to download your Outlook, gmail or Hotmail contacts directly onto the deskphone via USB sync and a program. One that lets you see your last five mumbers dialed and recieved on one screen and has sizable space for number storage. It just stands to reason. The world is full of power-users of deskphones. Any recommendations would be appreciated? Something without too astronomical a price.

[Stu-be]

It is surprising to me that every smartphone has a QWERTY keyboard of some sorts, but nobody has put one on a landline desk phone since the ATT/Lucent produced the 882 back in the Mid-1990's. One would think that there would be feature laden data maintaining desklines. It may be that I am just not seeing them. Perhaps, as an alternative, a phone where it is possible to dump that data from your PC into some a deskphone's memory. Maybe that's the modern alternative to the ATT 882. Can anyone suggest a desk telephone that allows you to enter all of the data about multi-number contacts, etc... from your PC into the desk phone? Preferably one that's not prohibitively expensive. Thanks.

[Stu-be]

This is just so obvious that I have to believe that somebody must be making something that fills the bill. If there is not a desk phone like the ATT 882 out there, one with it's own QWERTY keyboard to enter data onto the phone, perhaps there is program that allows you to send information from your PC to your desk phone via bluetooth? I miss having all of a persons numbers plus select information on one the screen of my phone. Anybody know of one? Thanks.