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iPhone Awesomeness Meets The Comfort of a Home Phone: #GoodCall (GIVEAWAY!!)

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Tim and I haven’t had a land line since 2004, which is exactly when we got cell phones for the first time. We were late to the cell phone party, but early to the “no house phone” party, I suppose. But in 2012, it’s actually quite common to drop your house line. Your cell phone is with you at all times, even in your house, so there’s little need for an additional phone line.

But I have to tell you, there are certain things I miss about land lines. To be more accurate, what I really miss are the phones, themselves. Yes, my iPhone is like a miniature version of the 8th wonder of the world. It can do all sorts of fun tricks and it certainly helps keep me connected in the way that a land line phone never could.

But…

I miss the way I could easily cradle a phone in between my ear and my neck. With my iPhone, any time I try to do that I end up hurting my neck and hanging up on the person on the other line. That touch screen feature is cool for a lot of things, but it can be a pain when you are just trying to have a conversation!

Well, folks, now I get to have my house phone back, without actually having to get a land line. There’s a BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW product out called Good Call, and I lurves it!!!

Here’s what landed on my door step on Wednesday afternoon:

Good Call is an iPhone handset. It’s also an iPhone docking station. Basically, it’s iPhone awesomeness. Wanna see how it works? Check this quick video out!

I love how the product is smart enough to really talk with your iPhone, and you can use the nifty voice activated feature to call folks in your address book without even touching your iPhone. So cool! I’m also enjoying having a second docking station in my home. We have a docking station upstairs, but during the day, Layah and I are almost exclusively downstairs. It’s great to have another easy place to get my charge on! Also, while I’m talking on my handset, my iPhone is STILL charging, all without me being tied down with a cord. LOVE it!!!! Here are some shots of my family using the Good Call. I love how Darah reacted to using it. She’d never seen a phone without a touch screen before! Ha!

I probably don’t need to remind you that Father’s Day is this weekend. If you have an awesome father in your life, whether it be your own dad or the father of your kiddos, this would be a fantabulous gift to get him! True, it isn’t yet available, but that’s part of the fun of the gift, especially if the man you are thinking of loves to get the latest gadgets…this is so new you CAN’T even buy it yet. The product launch happens on June 19th on the Good Call website.

There will also be a Twitter party (register here!) this Tuesday from 1-2pm EST, during which 2 units will be given away every 15 minutes. That’s a party not to miss, for sure!

But for the next few days, the only way to get your hands on this awesome gadget is to win it on a select number of blogs.

Speaking of which…

Win it!: One lucky Stuff Parents Need reader will win a #GoodCall device! SQUEAL!!
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Be sure to enter my other current giveaways, found on the sidebar of my page.

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  3. Thanks for the chance to win. We’re also living it old school amongst 21st century new-age gadgets…we have a landline too!

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  30. I gave up having a land line about 5 years ago and got my kids and I cell phones. I also got really tired of the constant telemarketer phone calls.

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  36. We do, but we do not use it. It came as a bundle and our TV was a better deal with it (weird, i know!). We only use our cells.

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  58. We do have a landline but 75% of the calls made to it are from telemarketers! However, we don’t have good cell reception in our area, so for the sake of safety we keep old reliable landline.

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  61. Haven’t had a land line in about 8 years. I miss my grandma’s old rotary phone really. It was so fun to use and I loved using my princess phone.

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  63. We have a land line, but we use our cell phones the majority of the time.
    Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity. ~Pauline

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  66. Yes, I still have a land line. But I hard ever use it cause I use my cellphone all the time. I probably should have the land line turned off. 🙂

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  78. We have cell phones, Voip phone and a land line. The land line is the most basic we can get only for emergencies and our security system

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  89. Yes, I do. I even have a rotary phone from the 60s, in great shape and works really well. I have a more modern corded phone too, and a cordless one.

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  93. Nope, we only have cell phones. We kept our landline until our kids were all old enough to have cell phones.

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  94. We do, but only because it’s required by our telephone service in order to have internet through them. It’s a very basic line with no long distance or other features, so we never use it!

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  99. I *do* still use a landline, and daily bemoan the fact that nobody makes “real” receivers anymore I, too, like to cradle the phone between my ear and neck (and I have a big head, so I need a big phone). For iPhone users, this is ideal. Now, let’s convince them to make a version for anachronisms like me. 🙂

    Oh, and I tweeted about this. 😉

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