New York Engineer Invents Cell Phone With Rotary Dial

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05 Mar 2020, 6:17 pm

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/engineer-makes-cell-phone-with-rotary-dial/

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07 Mar 2020, 8:32 pm

This is actually incredible. If it had a shell over the cover, I am sure that it would be well-nigh indestructible and have a long battery life. A simple pushbutton mech would also work nicely.

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07 Mar 2020, 10:58 pm

Love the idea.

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07 Mar 2020, 11:12 pm

Hope it comes with a redial button, so you don’t after re-enter each individual number if the line is busy. Speaking as someone whose fingers can still feel that dragging on the dial over and over :lol:

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07 Mar 2020, 11:38 pm

I hope it rings like a rotary phone.

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08 Mar 2020, 5:34 am

Nostalgia.......

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08 Mar 2020, 6:40 am

EzraS wrote:

I hope it rings like a rotary phone.

That would take a powerful electromagnet & brass bells to pull off. I know for a fact, having grabbed the green wire bare-handed while trying to fix a damaged landline jack, that copper-line phone service uses quite a bit of juice to make it ring. So that's not what you want in a cell phone. A discrete buzzer might be more practical.

And yes, I was hooking up a rotary phone from the 1930s or '40s when I got the wires crossed. Don't do electrician's work on a wet day barefooted outdoors. d

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08 Mar 2020, 6:48 am

She's kinda cute. Like Zoey Daschanel. :heart:

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08 Mar 2020, 6:52 am

Borromeo wrote:

EzraS wrote:

I hope it rings like a rotary phone.

Surely they can just have the phone play a digital file of a recording of an old fashioned rotary phone ringing. Like they have as an option on every other cell and smart phone in the last 20 years.

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08 Mar 2020, 2:03 pm

It's a brilliant invention indeed. Here's hoping cell phone companies like this idea.

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