My favorite phone of all time, now discontinued, is the Microsoft Cordless Phone. It has voice recognition to do voice dial, it has caller id announce in any choice of voices, speeds and volumes. The phone shows up as an audio device and a standard type of audio input device under windows so you can play back sounds into it, or record from it. All the answering machine messages are stored digitally as wavs, and you could retrieve them at any time via an interactive voice response system, you could organize multiple mailboxes, all sorts of cool stuff. It came out years and years ago but was advanced for its day. THe hardware is logically designed so that the phone-line base station is hooked up to the computer, and the charger is a separate unit that can be plugged into any outlet without regard to the actual bigger base station.

I'm still using the phone hardware today, but the drivers are not XP compatible. Anybody know of an equivalent type of cordless???

Calvin