Retro Telephones Make Welcome Comeback October 13, 2006
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I love old phones. They were reassuringly big and solid and had that wonderful ‘BRNNG-BRNNG’ ring.
They were also solid enough to withstand hitting your annoying younger brother with whenever he tried to interrupt vital six-hours calls to your class sweetheart, who lived just four doors away. I’d say these are well overdue a comeback and for £60, you get a communications classic back in your life.
Made from the original case mouldings of the phones BT built in the 1970s, the Retro Telephones are reborn. Of course, they sport modern socketry but also come with the fantastic ‘click and whirr’ dialing action and the ring tone is the hollow bell one – not digital either.
Available to pre-order now, they'll be shipping in two weeks in Pillar Box Red, Ivory and Black. – Martin Lynch
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This thing NEEDS to be PBX compatible - I can see the hilarity now....
I bought one online just under a year ago,things were great until........ 1)i dialed a mobile phone,what a nightmare .....2)i rung my bank and its automated service.....3)i didn't get a good anwer when trying to see if i'd missed a call with 1471.......and there is a fault with my dial. All of my above examples you see didn't exist in its day,and i hate to put a damper on things but now its just a novelity, a special one mind,i haven't fallen out with it, but a week later i was waiting for my new phone to be delivered.... a burger phone!
These are works of art and will be going long after all modern phones are in the skip :-)