Tin can phone competitors

[Anonymous]

The tin can phone seems like a great idea - my ES kid loves calling grandparents and cousins, but I don’t want to get a landline I’d have to supervise and deal with incoming spam calls. But it’s back ordered until April! That seems like a joke. Are there no similar alternatives? Can you set a regular landline to only call and accept calls from certain numbers?

[Anonymous]

We didn't even do a regular landline. I got the cheapest Ooma phone available - at $7 a month it's about the plan cost of a smart watch. Since it's the cheap plan it doesn't have caller ID. I programmed in the numbers I wanted the kids to pick up for. Then I instructed them to only pick up if a name comes up on the phone. Voila - cheap landline.

[Anonymous]

The Tin Can doesn't require a traditional land line; it's wifi enabled and you can set it to only interact w known contacts, so no worry about spam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Tin Can doesn't require a traditional land line; it's wifi enabled and you can set it to only interact w known contacts, so no worry about spam.

Oh so it's a VoIP phone. Just get a VoIP phone.

[Anonymous]

We got a tin can phone (also had to wait a few months to get it) - so worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Tin Can doesn't require a traditional land line; it's wifi enabled and you can set it to only interact w known contacts, so no worry about spam.

Oh so it's a VoIP phone. Just get a VoIP phone.

Yes but what I want most is the control over who it can call and who can call it. I want to give it a list of allowed numbers in both directions.

[Anonymous]

Just wait for the tin can, the security features are great

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didn't even do a regular landline. I got the cheapest Ooma phone available - at $7 a month it's about the plan cost of a smart watch. Since it's the cheap plan it doesn't have caller ID. I programmed in the numbers I wanted the kids to pick up for. Then I instructed them to only pick up if a name comes up on the phone. Voila - cheap landline.

This is what we did too. We set up the ooma a month ago and put our number on the do not call registry. No spam calls so far and kids are old enough to know not to answer the phone for an unknown number.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Tin Can doesn't require a traditional land line; it's wifi enabled and you can set it to only interact w known contacts, so no worry about spam.

Oh so it's a VoIP phone. Just get a VoIP phone.

Yes but what I want most is the control over who it can call and who can call it. I want to give it a list of allowed numbers in both directions.

Do speed dial numbers still exist? Maybe you can program numbers to call out that way and assign them names like the other PP did so your kids only pick up for the names for incoming calls.