Response from: Otto

This is very interesting! I am wondering if a service plan with the telephone company or DSL connection is required for this to work? How is the bundled software? And what's the sound quality for long distance nationwide calls?

Nationwide Long Distance

Response from: stanley

It is very similar device I saw it, I use google to search, someone call flashphone and come from mplat.com , and almost two years before.

I guess, MagicJack don't have core technology.

Response from: Hasan

Hi, Magic jack is working from India. One of my friend called from Hyderabad. So Hyderabadis enjoy Magic Jack.

Response from: arvee

hi hasan !!where can i get in India?

Response from: Tayla

This product is still beta (as of 1/04/08). ALOT of areas DO NOT have local area codes, so calling out for pizza from another state phone number is not going to go over well. This product may *seem* fabulous...its not. You get third party tracking of your activity in return for low pricing....Until its improved and meets the demands of the customers needs, it should stay in planning stage and not out on the market.

Response from: davidows

Tayla, For over a month now, a LOT of Area Codes ARE available and there will be more. What VOIP company do you work for, that you feel so threatened by the magicJack? Your "third-party tracking" claim is baseless, unless you refer to the NSA, which tracks ALL phone calls, whether from a magicJack, another VOIP, a cellular or a POTS line. BTW, you should have said an "extremely" low price. Try comparing $19.95 per YEAR with most other VOIP plans, costing more than that per MONTH!

Response from: Dave

Marcus, you have already posted the same comment everywhere else, and you usually post it twice, why? What you're suggesting wouldn't be so "magic". It's already done by everybody else in the VOIP business! The bigger difference is that the others charge at least 12 times MORE, and usually 15 or 20 times MORE, per year than magicJack for the same service. So, I ask the same question I asked Tayla - what's your agenda? I have no agenda other than that of a very satisfied user of magicJack ever since it became available and publicized on CNBC. I just bought a second one and I'll probably be giving out at least a couple dozen, as gifts, in the near future.

Response from: joe

in tanzania this device seem not working, because i have from my friend in usa, iam always tring to use it but not succeed it always shows to register

Response from: Jasbir

!!PHONE CARDS DON'T WORK MOST (85%) OF THE TIME!!It is still in bata mode. Sometimes other side hear echo sounds.

!!Alot of times it keep asking me to register.!!!

Response from: yvonne

I JUST RECEIVED MY MAJIC JACK 3/29/08 SO FAR IT IS WORKING GREAT. IM GOING TO RECOMMEND THIS TO ALL FAMILY AND FREINDS

THANK YOU MAGIC JACK

Response from: Loflyn

Here is a great retailer for the product. http://www.go-fast-parts.com/5745158.html

Response from: SUSAN LALONDE

I have had my MagicJack since yesterday afternoon (4-4-08). It is the best thing since sliced bread! It was the easiest thing to install and within 5 minutes I was making phone calls. The live help is the best and they walked me through setting up my voice mail (which was the only thing I had slight problems with) The clarity of the calls is outstanding. We don't have local area code for my area (which is remote area in Kentucky) but since we have caller ID and also a box that pops up on your desktop when you get calls if someone local calls me, I tell them to let it ring a couple of times and when thier number and name pops up on the caller ID I just call them right back. I will NEVER again pay the high price for long distance or phone service. I researched this MagicJack for over a month before I decided to purchase, and I got it within 2 days of doing so. If you read all of the FAQ's you will find out anything and everything you need to know about it. I recommend it to anyone that has to make any kind of long distance calls regularly, and even just for the local calls it is worth not paying a monthly bill. My total price was right under $50 and that included shipping and handling and a $2.95 priority shipping fee that enabled me to get my MagicJack within 2 days. I want to thank the inventor of this gadget...has to be a genius. Anyone that would like to ask me any additional questions about this is welcome to email me at kutedymples at highland.net. If I can answer any questions you may have I will surely try. Like I said...I highly recommend this to anyone that wants a phone and has high speed internet. I have DSL and it works perfectly, my internet speed is not affected at all even when making or recieving a phone call.
Happy and completely satisfied customer!
Susan LaLonde

Response from: ron

I have used magicJack about 28days and the voicemail aspect has a lot to be desired. The standard recorded receiver's message takes 14 dial tones to activate the voicemail. Most of my callers Hang Up. Maybe something to work on improving.

Response from: MikeR

I just received one in the mail, and yes I could not get my area code but I did see where they are adding more near me and I hope they will keep until they get to the 540 area code, I have tested this MagicJack over DSL, Cable and via a Sprint Cell Network, to others arount the US and I have found that with it's limitations I had 90% clear voice over the phone, when I called to FL to a cell number I had a delay but we could talk with few problems. From my laptop connected to the internet via my cell phone the magicjack did work poorly but that connection is far below the standard requierments.
You may not get your area code right now and they do offer that you can change your number one time for free so when they do open to your area code you can change. Final note, THE PRICE THE PRICE THE PRICE. First YEAR for me will be $50 due to I requested express shipping. For the YEAR, then just $19.95 PER YEAR. ok I have looked into Skype I used it when they had it for FREE before they charged for the service. This MagicJack is better you can use your PC or plug in your cordless phone and in less than 5 min you will be making calls from your phone to anywhere in the US.

Response from: Richard

I have had my magicjack for a week now and I like it for the price, but the options are not the greatest ex: I don't like having my computer on all the time, I had to power it to standbye to save cost on power bill, and slowed my computer down by doing this. If there was only a better way for it to work without power to computer. I would also like to turn off my voicemail from magicjack and be able to use my phone machine instead for my wife, she hates technology and me sometimes for doing things like this to her. It is cheap so I guess you can't have everything.

Response from: Attila

MagicJack works well in the US but not for Canada, still needs some work since my calls connect 60% of the times over there; It just rings & the person i'm calling does not even hear their phone ringing 2 times out of 4. You have to wait a few hours or next day to try again in order to reach that person in Canada. Besides calling Canada no complains... Great Gadget.

Response from: Diana

I just received my Majic Jack in the mail today and I'm already seeing possibilities with this, I'm ordering another for my best friend over in the Netherlands, forget SKYPE, I used it while it was free. But this little thing right here, well lets just say, we're going to see a LOT of jobs go under. Sorry to those that are going to be in the cross fire, but I'm so grateful that this has happened. I'm so tired of the monopoly of BIG companies making a killing on the little people. My Annual phone bill is 600 bux a year. But with Majic Jack its' only 20, hell you do the math. I just wish he come out with something regarding these edison and gas bills, they've been getting away so long with robbing and raping us John Q. Citizens, til I'll be happy when someone comes and undercut them also. I say all of this, because I pay the phone company in one year what I get in my monthly disability check. So HOORAY for DAN, and to all of you negative folks, stop it please with your patronizing comments. Did you honestly think that people would really pay any attention to you, when we're/I'm saving 580 bux a month? Get over it and yourself. Magic Jack is HERE, not in the future. It's here NOW... can't wait to see the next big breakthrough.

Response from: Israel

I want to know if a can call
to mexico city and how.

Response from: AdwarePhobic

Amazing how many users are willing to accept adware programs, especially when they have to PAY for those programs. Read their terms of service policy, section 11, Advertisements. Their magicPage software that must run on your host is adware. Oh joy, you get to pay for spam.

Response from: Ben

Magic jack is definitely a money saver...I guess you get what you pay for. I don't like to have my computer on all the time and the reception is very choppy at times. I'd give it 6 out of ten.

Response from: Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments

To me the MagicJack doesn't seem so magic. It shouldn't be connected to the USB port of a running computer, but directly to the DSL modem or the router. I don't like to boot my computer just for a phone call.

Response from: Markus Goebel's Tech News Comments

The MagicJack shouldn�t be connected to the USB port of a running computer, but directly to the DSL modem or the router. It could get it�s energy from the router�s Ethernet port. The entire phone software should be embedded in the device and not rely...