User Guide
Table Of Contents
- IS8151-X_QSG_V6.1_20210709_BW
- IS8151-X_SCB_V2_20210309
- IS8151-X_WEBCIB_V2_210707
- Important safety instructions
- What’s in the box
- Overview
- Connect
- Before use
- Introducing Bluetooth
- Bluetooth setup
- Remote voice control
- Configure your telephone
- Use the handset and telephone base menu
- Set language
- Set date and time
- Set voice language
- Caller ID announce
- Use caller ID to automatically set date and time
- Set speed dial voicemail number
- Voicemail (visual message waiting) indicator
- Clear voicemail indication
- Home area code
- Cell area code
- Dial mode
- Temporary tone dialing
- No line alert
- Cell alert
- Telephone operations
- Make, answer or end a home call
- Call waiting on the home line
- Make, answer or end a cell call
- Call waiting on the cell line
- Answer an incoming cell call while on a home call
- Answer a home call while on a cell call
- Conference home and cell calls
- Handset speakerphone
- Volume
- Silence the ringer
- Mute
- Hold
- Equalizer
- Join a call in progress (for multiple handset models only)
- Chain dialing
- Find handset
- Redial list
- Sound settings
- Intercom
- Call transfer using intercom
- Push-to-talk (PTT)
- Phonebook
- Caller ID
- Review a caller ID log entry
- Memory match
- Missed call indicator
- View dialing options
- Dial a caller ID log entry
- Save a caller ID log entry to the phonebook
- Save a caller ID log entry to the allow list
- Save a caller ID log entry to the block list
- Save a caller ID log entry to the star name list
- Delete the caller ID log entries
- About Smart call blocker
- About the built-in answering system and voicemail service
- Set your built-in answering system
- Answering system and voicemail indicators
- Use the answering machine and voicemail together
- Register a handset
- Screen messages
- General product care
- Frequently asked questions
- The RBRC seal
- FCC, ACTA and IC regulations
- California Energy Commission battery charging testing instructions
- For C-UL compliance only
- Limited warranty
- Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
- Technical specifications
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Call waiting on the home line
If you subscribe to call waiting service from your telephone
service provider, and someone calls while you are already on a
call, you hear a tone.
• Press
HOME/FLASH on the handset, or press PTT/FLASH
on the telephone base to put your current call on hold and
take the new call.
N OTES
• If the Smart call blocker feature is on and in screening mode, and
you receive a call waiting home call:
- If you have already picked up a screened home call, the
telephone checks whether the call waiting call’s number can be
found in the phonebook, block list or allow list. It also checks
whether the caller name is in the star name list. After that, the
telephone displays the caller ID information or Blocked call
accordingly. You can press
HOME/FLASH or to take the
new call.
- If the telephone is screening a home call, the call waiting call will
be ignored and logged as missed call in the caller ID log.
• The screening feature of Smart call blocker is applicable to home
calls only:
Make, answer or end a cell call
The IS8151/IS8251 can be used to make or answer calls on the
cell line. You can connect a maximum of 4 Bluetooth enabled
cell phones to the telephone base. Both cell phones can be
used on cell calls at the same time.
Using a cordless handset:
To make a cell call:
• Press CELL 1 or CELL 2. Enter the telephone number, then
press DIAL.
To predial a cell call:
• Enter the telephone number, then press CELL 1 or CELL 2.
To answer a cell call:
• Press
HOME/FLASH or , CELL 1, CELL 2 or any dialing
key (0-9 or TONE ).
To end a cell call:
• Press OFF/CANCEL, or put the handset in the telephone
base or charger.
Using the telephone base:
To make a cell call:
• Press CELL 1 or CELL 2 on the telephone base. Enter the
telephone number, then press DIAL.
To predial a cell call:
• Enter the telephone number, then press CELL 1 or CELL 2.
To answer a cell call:
• Press HOME, CELL 1, CELL 2 or any dialing key (0-9 or
TONE ).
To end a cell call:
• Press CELL 1 or CELL 2.
N OTES
• You can also use your cell phone to answer the call. If you answer
with your cell phone, it disconnects from the telephone base.
• If you do not want to answer the call, press REJECT.
• When you try to make a cell call but your cell phone is not
connected to the base, the telephone base displays Cellular phone
not connected. Please connect to proceed.. Press CONNECT
to connect your cell phone to the telephone system. Refer to
Bluetooth connection from idle mode and Connect/disconnect an
active device.
• Make a cell call using the cell lines of your telephone system instead
of the remote voice control feature, if you need to press dialing
keys (0-9, TONE
, QUIET#) during a call.
Call waiting on the cell line
If you subscribe to call waiting service from your cell phone
service provider, and someone calls while you are already on a
call, you hear a beep.
Using a cordless handset:
• Press CELL 1 or CELL 2 to put your current call on hold and
take the new call.
• Press CELL 1 or CELL 2 at any time to switch back and
forth between calls.
-OR-
• Press SWAP to switch. To switch back, press CELL 1 or CELL 2.
Using the telephone base:
• Press SWAP on the telephone base. The original call is put
on hold and you take the new call.
• Press OPTION on the telephone base. Press q CID or
p to highlight Swap Cell X. Press SELECT to resume
the original call. The other incoming cell call is put on
hold.
N OTES
• If the Smart call blocker feature is on and in screening mode, and
you receive a call waiting cell call:
- If you have already picked up a screened home call, the
telephone checks whether the call waiting cell call’s number can
be found in the block list. If yes, the telephone displays Blocked
call and rejects the call.
• The screening feature of Smart call blocker is applicable to home
calls only.