magicJack Review
September 15th, 2009
magicJack Review from Christopher Aune Certified Personal Coach/Ex. You get what you pay for, magicJack – No More Phone Bills – Free Local & Long Distance Calls!magicJack Phone Device - 2 packmagicJack: PC to Phone Jack
August 2009: I like magicjack enough now to up the rating to a 4 star. It’s a great deal, and I’ve begun using it for business telephone conversations with no problems. 2009 UPDATE FIXED ALL QUALITY ISSUES.
Original comments of Nov 2008: If you’re looking for cheap long distance service, this is it… and they’ve reduced the price even more. If you live in an area where it takes long distance to call anybody 5 miles away, this is an inexpensive solution. It works well enough that I’m keeping mine.
An update for 2009 fixed the voice quality and dialing issues, which were major drawbacks… but these are fixed and do not exist anymore. That’s the positive. There are minor drawbacks.
1) When you first install majicjack, it sometimes doesn’t install right. However, the service desk does well at helping.
2) Every time you start your computer, majicjack takes over for 2:15 minutes, though it says it only takes a minute. My computer and connection are very fast. My fix: I plug magicjack in after my computer has booted, and the computer boot and magicjack boot both take less time.
3) While it’s booting, it takes over your computer and doesn’t allow you to do anything else.
4) Every time it boots, for the full time it is booting, it puts up a magicjack ad: Unnecessary brainwashing.
5) It puts icons everywhere: First, the main window appears in the middle of your screen. If you minimize it, it pops back up in the middle of whatever you’re doing when the phone is used. Hell on games. I eliminate this by stuffing the open window under the bottom left corner with just a little corner showing so I can grab it if I want. (I guess I can eliminate this by unplugging magicjack, and pluggin it in only when I want to use it. Pretty antique operation.) Second, it puts an icon on your desktop, and if you delete it, it reappears every time you reboot magicjack. Third, it puts an icon on the tool bar that takes up space and inconveniences my management of multiple programs. Fourth, because it gets used some, it appears on the Start Menu quick start menu. Why all these icons? It’s already running all the time! Fifth, it appears where I’d prefer it to appear: On the programs menu.
6) Fixed in 2009: People used to tell me they cannot hear me well. Now there is no mention of low volume or static.
7) Fixed in 2009: The transmission used to be one-way communication. You could not talk on top of one another in a two-way communication, as the transmission became choppy both ways. This no longer happens: it’s like a normal phone now.
On the main screen there are tabs marked Contacts, Calls, and Favorites. The Favorites tab lists a bunch of links from throughout my computer, including from my browser favorites and random links only appearing in My Documents. Apparently the MagicJack program searched my whole computer for these links.
9) Fixed in 2009: In Dec 08 the I started having increasing problems dialing numbers in my area, though I’m dialing from another area code. I haven’t had this problem since.
2009 UPDATE FIXED ALL QUALITY ISSUES. Now if I could just get those irritating icons to go away.
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