It is becoming the dinosaur of phones.In the fast-paced, push-button, touch-tone world of South Florida, fewer and fewer people have rotary-dial telephones.“There’s no advantage in it,” said ...

A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, ... Strogen says she's not a big fan of her new push-button phone. "I'd like to have my rotary back," she said. "I like that better." About; ...

Some grade school kids don’t even know what a landline is. Take a trip down memory lane as we look at phones through the ...

04:35PM ET 11.07.16 YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts.

In 2020, Justine Haupt came up with a brilliant design for a mobile phone that was free of productivity-killing distractions. Even better, it was made to look like a 40-year-old rotary phone. Two ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Julie Farthing suspects that the telephone in her kitchen was installed sometime between the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Truman administration. It’s black, it&#821… ...

It lets you connect a vintage rotary dial telephone to a Raspberry Pi so you can lift the handset, dial a number, and have an AI-driven conversation reminiscent of traditional phone calls.

It’s easy to convert an old push-button or rotary phone to a Bluetooth receiver that works with your cell phone, and almost as well as a dedicated landline phone. Here’s how to make it happen.

Rotary dial phones have a certain romantic charm about them; something never quite captured in the post-Touch Tone era. With landline phone services less popular than ever, these old workhorses are… ...

Thus equipped, the phone can now be used to ask Siri the usual questions ("Open the pod bay doors" etc). Davis chooses to dial one, not zero or nine, as these "hold the button down too long." ...

The idea for push-button telephones actually predated the invention of the rotary dial, but even after the successful introduction of the touch-tone system it took a while for it to catch on. It ...