I'm fed up of carrying two phones around. Can I have two numbers coming into the same handset?

[flowerybeanbag]

I have two mobiles, one Blackberry and one normal phone, one is for work one is for personal. It's a real pain. My Blackberry is giving up the ghost at the moment so I need something new, either another Blackberry or an iPhone.

But what I really really want is to be able to have two lines coming into the same handset so I only need one. I would ideally need to be able to tell which line someone was ringing as well.

Is this possible, and what do I do?

TIA :)

ooh if it's not get this thread deleted and market it yourself :o

Can't see me managing that one!

bumping since I appear to have killed your thread

can you not divert one set of calls to the other phone?

Then group the two sets of people to have 2 ring tones?

Can't you set up one line to divert to the other handset using call forwarding or something?

(helpful, I know . I'm sure someone with more knowledge can expand upon that!)

I guess I could divert. The trouble is for the work number, because it is businesses who phone me, most of the time their number is withheld so I can't do the different ring tone thing - plus a lot of them are calls from people I've not spoken to before anyway.

Surely you ought to be able to do that. It sounds like something that should be easy, plus something I would have thought lots of people would find useful.

I think you can get some device that holds 2 sim cards but I don't think you ca have both of the cards "on" at the same time. Call forwarding is probably the way forwards. For grouping for ring tones even though you can't group the work ones you can still give a special ring tone to all your friends and just have another one for "others".

dh had this problem and was always losing/leaving a phone

he got the calls of work forwarded to his personal phone and then had the same ring tone for all friends/family - had to program each one separately with the ring tone and then all other numbers rang a different tune iyswim

course sometimes a mate would change his number and then ring t and then would ring the business tone but not a major problem

surely if you look at the phone it will say either dh/friends/mum and dad or bob work so you would know and any blocked numbers would be programmed to ring business tone iyswim

Ooh thanks all. Yes I could programme everyone I know with one ring tone but have the default ring tone as something else, that could work.

I still think it ought to be easy to do it!

DH has reminded me why we haven't already done the call forwarding thing. The problem is outgoing calls. If I make them all from my personal mobile they will not appear on my work mobile bill and I'll have to go through and highlight them then claim a portion back or something. Also when I make calls my personal mobile number will show up, or vice versa, unless I set it to withhold my number which means that none of my friends and family will know it's me.

Surely this must be a v common problem? How is there not an easy, widely-available solution yet?

Any more ideas?

Seriously, get on to the patent office :o

Guess you will be taking 2 phones. Mb has bb for work and nokia for personal