OT: Finally a cell phone I can use right out of the box

soder33 · Oct 12, 2010

Geez, Some of the Guys I work with have never used a rotary phone.

john in la · Oct 12, 2010

That phone is outdated and would never work today in the USA.

How are you suppose to press 1 for english on that thing.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Oct 12, 2010

I was about a senior in high school before the telephone association disbanded the old crank style phone system in favor of the rotary dial phones (circa 1965).

A number of years later I switched to push button tone dial phones and whenever I would then use a rotary dial phone I found them terribly slow awaiting the dial to return.

From reading mom's old diaries I believe they got their first phone (crank) in 1936.

As the old cigarette commercial used to say, "We've come a long way baby."

Can you imagine a high school kid having to use a crank style phone on a party line of 10-15 families on it in order to call a girl up for a date. Very tough thing to do. Perhaps needless to say but I didn't date much until the new phone system was in place.

I just got a new cell phone about a month ago. My daughter and son in law set it up for me so I, too, didn't have to do anything out of the box with it. lol I'm an additional family member on their account in order for all of us to save and share base costs, hence their picking up the phone and setting it up.

glennster · Oct 12, 2010

wow, i want one!!! i wish they would make the cell phones a little bigger, with buttons i could actually see and push!!!! i have a big button phone at the shop on my desk, everybody thought is was funny, but ....they all seem to use it more than any other phone here!!!

Billy Shafer · Oct 12, 2010

I would like to find just a regular phone. I don't need to take photos or text,twitter,tweater,facebook or any other fancy stuff. Just want a cell phone with call and hang up on it.

My son has one that went off the other day. Took me five minutes just to fiquire out how to answer it. I guess it hung itself up. After a few minutes the screen went blank.

Absent Minded Farmer · Oct 12, 2010

I remember phone numbers were a lot easier to obtain back then. All you needed to do was stick your finger in the operator's hole, give it a twist & she'd give you any number you wanted.

Mike

jbp · Oct 12, 2010

We still use two of the black rotary phones plus one push button portable and a tracfone cell. The old rotarys are at least forty years old and kids have asked how to use them. The portable push button requires $20 dollar batterys often , and the cell stays in the desk drawer unless we are on a trip. Guess which ones never cause trouble?
Yep, the old rotarys.
Joe

pete 23 · Oct 12, 2010

Me and telephones don't get along. First cell phone I had, max min I ever used in one month was 8 minutes. Now I have a trac phone, buy new card every three months for twenty bucks. I keep accumulating minutes on it but I still have a phone if I really need it. Wife is only one with my cell number.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 12, 2010

I'd still have problems getting my fat fingers in the holes on that one. My daughter laugh at me for using a pencil to dial my phone and to text is a nightmare. Thumbs covers two and a half rows of keys and index fingers covers two. The must not want men as customers.

Tony S. · Oct 12, 2010

I like it when old guys sit around and argue about who knows the least.

rhouston · Oct 12, 2010

you"ve seen the ipad right? that is what a cell phone for old folks should look like. Then they could have the large buttons.

barn E · Oct 13, 2010

In our house we still have 7 dial phones from the fifties. It cost more to use them. Don't even ask why we have them. Hard wired, to boot!

dbernie · Oct 14, 2010

Can't stand my cell phone--wife requires it.
I think I need a college course to figure out how to operate it.
And, the numbers/keys are too small.
I want one I can answer, call, hang up, and my fingers will fit the buttons.
Is that too much to ask???

36 Coupe · Oct 16, 2010

I have a trac phone, wife insisted on it because I work alone in the woods at times.Its shut off until I need it.Its handy to call customers when their fence chargers are ready or picnic tables are ready.

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