Corded phone with SD Card storage for answering machine?

[bszelda]

Hi guys! I'm not sure if this is in the right section so...sorry if it isn't.

Anyway, I wanted to ask if anyone knows of a corded phone that has an answering machine but uses a SD card to store the messages. In other words, an answering machine that you can take the messages and copy them to a computer. I'm trying to find one because my mother likes to keep important messages for legal reasons (i.e., we had a family suit against a nursing home and she kept most messages with the nursing home/attorneys). Of course, there are other reasons but the biggest is for this purpose. Our answering machine only holds about 50 messages and it's annoying that the machine is full nearly all of the time due to the storage limitations (It's like these phones companies give you just 25 MB of data or something built into the phone...).

So...if anyone knows of any kind of phone like this, please reply and link me to one. If there are none out there...I have no idea why there is not because there is definitely a market for them considering that many people still use landlines as their home phone and this sort of option would help bring landlines into the 21st century.... :-/

 

[vi edit]

I don't know any physical devices that do that. If you do a VoIP service like Ooma and let them handle the voicemail inbox you can download the messages as MP3's to your computer.

 

[shortylickens]

Nope. Seems like all corded phones and even cordless just have a set amount of internal memory and thats all.

Because mobile is so much more popular thats where the push has been to improve technology.

 

[vshah]

see if there's a way you can use google voice for voicemail? it archives everything and its accessible from any computer. also searchable (although the voice-to-text isn't the best). you can dl mp3s of the voicemails at any time as well.

no idea how you would set it up with a standard landline though.

some searching yielded this:

You can use Google voicemail as an answering service for a landline. To do this, the phone must have "conditional call forwarding" as one of the features. If your plan only has "immediate call forwarding", you won't be able to use Google voicemail.

Immediate call forwarding re-programs your carriers servers to re-direct all calls to your phone number somewhere else. When this feature is active, no calls can ring your phone; they're all being redirected. You can still make outgoing calls, but you can't receive any.

Conditional call forwarding only redirects calls under certain conditions. Usually the conditions are when the call is not answered or when the line is busy. With conditional call forwarding, you can still answer incoming calls.

Don't try to use the Google Phones tab to set up Google voicemail for a landline. Simply use your carrier-provided codes to program conditional call forwarding to your Google number.

so call up your phone provider and see if conditional call forwarding is an option. if so, create a google account just to get a google voice number. ask them to conditionally forward calls to the google voice number after a certain number of rings, perhaps. then set up google voice to act as voicemail only. make sure to disable the answering machine on the handset/base station so they won't pick up before the call is forwarded to google voice.