Sprint’s newest gadget lets you route mobile calls over a wired phone

The newest version of Sprint’s Phone Connect residential voice router has a Bluetooth radio that connects to your smartphone much the same way a phone links to a Bluetooth headset.

Instead of projecting a call into your ear canal though, it projects calls to all of your household phones. So when someone calls your mobile number, not only does your smartphone ring, but so do all of the phone extensions in your home. It works with any standard telephone, and you only need to pick up the nearest handset to answer the call. Sprint is including this as a feature enhancement to its Sprint’s Phone Connect program, which is designed to replace your copper phone line (or digital cable VoIP service) with a wireless link from Sprint. The idea is that you still separate home and mobile numbers, but both numbers route to your household handsets when home is where you happen to be.