[Yaymukund] made an interesting observation. Old-style rotary phones were made to last and made for service. Why? Because you didn’t own them, the phone company did. There was no advantage for them ...

I have an old rotary dial POTS phone lying around, and I thought it would be cool to be able to use it to make calls. The most flexible way to do that would be to have it act as a mic and speaker that ...

Net Cowboy brings us this Skype DC-NCTEL1 handset that is a throwback to a 1930s style phone. A rotary dial would have been fantastic, but no one would know how to use that anyway. Regardless, this ...

You’re probably familiar with the Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone, even if you don’t know it by name. The iconic toy phone features a big, red handset and a colorful rotary dial. Telephone tones and ...

If you’ve got an old 1940s style rotary phone lying around and about 7 hours you’re not sure what to do with, you can contact Michael at fonejackerhacker in the UK and find out how he made this iPhone ...

Interestingly enough, a retro rotary phone lends itself well to iPhone docking. Plus, building one yourself looks to be a fairly simple procedure (so long as you are willing to cannibalize a speaker ...

There’s something so nostalgic about the rotary phone that makes it a fun thing to hack and modernize. [Voidon] put his skills to the test and converted one to VoIP using a Raspberry Pi. He used the ...