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No need to bust out one of those newfangled smartphones to get your handset-based chat on — oh no, baby boomers and their offspring can now handle IM conversations via a landline telephone. You heard right, Vtech is getting all extraordinary on us today with the industry’s first instant messaging cordless phone, and certain abundant, the DECT 6.0 IS6110 features a full-fledged QWERTY keypad to keep those thumbs happy. All that’s due is

that the phone’s base station be connected via USB to a PC, after which users can have free access to MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger. What better way to gently introduce your mother (hint, hint) to that millennium than by dropping $99.95 on that?

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Original post by Darren Murph