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The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« on: November 05, 2016, 05:56:21 pm »
The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)

    Hardware maker designs a rotary cellphone with 6 basic functions
    It can call, text, sleep, play the radio, has a memory and displays settings
    It runs on a mini Arduino circuit board and powered by a microcomputer
    You have to use a style to turn the dial because the holes are too small

By Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com

Published: 16:02 EDT, 4 November 2016 | Updated: 16:50 EDT, 4 November 2016


If you yearn for the days of rotary phones, help is at hand.

A YouTuber and hardware maker known as Mr. Volt has combined the past and the present to make a fully functioning ‘rotary cell phone’.

His prototype has the iconic dial on the front and offers six basic functions: it can make calls, store one phone number, text, tune into the radio, display system settings and go to sleep.



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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2016, 07:43:03 pm »
Sounds like it is perfect. No all night long vvvvehhh vvvvehhh.
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2016, 08:08:50 pm »
The old rotary phones were pulse dialed. They dialed by make/break of the phone line. This phone's rotary dial selects the corresponding DTMF tone for the selected number. With the old rotary phones you could make a call with just pressing on the hand piece cradle switch. I still have an old phone that didn't have a dial.
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2016, 08:19:24 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on November 06, 2016, 08:08:50 pm
The old rotary phones were pulse dialed. They dialed by make/break of the phone line. This phone's rotary dial selects the corresponding DTMF tone for the selected number. With the old rotary phones you could make a call with just pressing on the hand piece cradle switch. I still have an old phone that didn't have a dial.

NO DIAL?! How did you tune in Tokyo?
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2016, 08:31:26 pm »
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2016, 08:39:30 pm »
Why?
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2016, 08:44:34 pm »
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2016, 08:49:44 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on November 06, 2016, 08:44:34 pm
Butt dial proof! :whistle:
But it would play that nagging "Left off the hook too long" tone.
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2016, 08:55:22 pm »
Just what everyone was clamoring for. A harder way to dial a number.
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2016, 09:13:56 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on November 06, 2016, 08:55:22 pm
Just what everyone was clamoring for. A harder way to dial a number.

With any luck it would give that robocaller carpal tunnel.
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« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2016, 10:05:34 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on November 06, 2016, 08:49:44 pm
But it would play that nagging "Left off the hook too long" tone.

LOL   888high58888

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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2016, 12:12:48 am »
Quote from: Wingnut on November 06, 2016, 08:44:34 pm
Butt dial proof! :whistle:

That depends on the dexterity of one's butt, doesn't it?
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2016, 12:25:00 am »
Quote from: r9etb on November 07, 2016, 12:12:48 am
That depends on the dexterity of one's butt, doesn't it?

Ive heard of people talking out of one. Don't think I want to contemplate talking into one.
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2016, 12:29:37 am »
Quote from: bigheadfred on November 07, 2016, 12:25:00 am
Ive heard of people talking out of one. Don't think I want to contemplate talking into one.

So ... that means you don't want to work as a major media reporter?  Or a substitute for Hannity?
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Re: The rotary phone is back! Bizarre cellphone design can make calls and send texts (but don't expect to fit it in your pocket)
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2016, 12:34:32 am »
Quote from: r9etb on November 07, 2016, 12:29:37 am
So ... that means you don't want to work as a major media reporter?  Or a substitute for Hannity?

Posting on here is as major as I will get.

I don't know if there is a sub for hannity. Hannity is a special case. He can do both at the same time.
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« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2016, 12:37:53 am »
Quote from: r9etb on November 07, 2016, 12:12:48 am
That depends on the dexterity of one's butt, doesn't it?

A vestigial tail would help.....
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