Retro Cell Phones

[Accountable]

Do you think there's a market for them? Imagine having a phone that you can leave at the house and check the voicemail when you get home!



I would imagine the dial would be replaced with buttons and maybe a display screen.

 

[Springsteen]

No.

Well, maybe in the short term, because it'd be a little different, but it wouldn't be a long term thing.

Today it's even rarer to see basic home phones with the advent of fibre optic broadband etc, they're basically becoming obsolete.

 

[pjbleek]

all things come back after 25 years on the shelf, so in about 15 years the "old" rotary phones will make a come back and everyone will be stunned we used such archaic phones.

 

[Accountable]

I think phones are already obsolete in most situations. I'm sure that offices will do away with them in a few years, as soon as they figure out how to network dozens or hundreds of cell phones.

How do you imagine hotels will handle it?

 

[Springsteen]

Hotels might stick with it. With the switchboard situation.

Unless there's a simpler way.

 

[pjbleek]

land lines are going by the wayside, so since most people can be reached via, cell, email, the need for any telephone worker may soon disappear and this is a technology just over a hundred years old....

 

[Accountable]

Hotels might stick with it. With the switchboard situation.

Unless there's a simpler way.

I would imagine an intercom system to call the front desk and free wifi for everything else.