New phones combine landline, cellular

Source: CNN

Tired of paying separate phone bills for your home and your mobile phone while juggling multiple phone numbers and voice mail?

Before you abandon your standard home phone, consider the range of hybrids coming to the market that combine the best features of residential wired and wireless phones.

Verizon Communications, the largest U.S. telephone company, is expected to announce Thursday a new cordless-cellular phone that operates on regular telephone lines in the home and on the mobile networks when outside.

Ericsson , the world's largest maker of wireless equipment, has developed technology called Mobile@Home that lets consumers use their cell phone to make calls from home via the Internet instead of using up valuable wireless minutes.