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Now that cell phone circuitry is so commoditised and cheap, it should be possible to build interesting cell phones to complement whatever you're wearing.
The Retro Cell Phone #1: Black and curvaceous, moulded out of Bakelite (rather than a modern plastic), with a chrome-plated steel rotary dial
for dialing numbers (Of course, the phone would have to do the pulse to tone conversion).
The Retro Cell Phone #2: Rectangular with semicircular ends, '50's styling, cream plastic edged with fine chrome-plated rails, clunky green buttons like some old car radio.
The Retro Cell Phone #3: The handset from some old phone of your choice - with cellphone circuitry hidden in it.
retro cell phones of the massive variety
[hob,
Jan 23 2005]
Fisher Price
http://www.fisherpr...product.asp?id=3231
[hippo, Oct 10 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(??) Apple iPod LC
http://homepage.mac...r/ipodlc/index.html
(joke) PDA/phone/MP3 player with rotary dial [hippo, Oct 10 2000, last modified Oct 17 2004]
(?) the IRonphone
http://www.ironphone.com/
it's an Iron, it's a cellphone, you can buy it.and the cord is also the carger [dr_photon, Mar 14 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) the BlenderPhone
http://www.cycoactive.com/blender/
not cellular but it's a BLENDERPHONE...it "blends" when it rings [dr_photon, Mar 14 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
70's Desktop Cellphone
http://retards.org/.../desktop_cellphone/
A retro cellphone project [2n2222a, Mar 28 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) Pokia - retro cellphones
http://www.pokia.com
Looking almost baked... (link taken from [wagster]'s Victorian technology idea. [hippo, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 17 2004]
(?) Retro Phone
http://www.retrophone.net/
Another retro cell phone project, based out of NYC. [Kingfox, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
banana fone
http://www.albinobl...ash/badgerphone.php
cellular, modular, interactive-odular [andrew1, May 04 2005]
(?) Portable Rotary Phone
http://www.sparkfun...?shop=1&itemid=416&
Made to order. [waugsqueke, May 13 2005]
Rotary cell phone
https://www.youtube...watch?v=uV1C-41tq64
[Voice, Sep 21 2022]
Banana Phone - now with Bluetooth!
https://youtu.be/tfBIpzdckeU
[21 Quest, Sep 21 2022]
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Retro Cell Phone #4: Incorporate a telephone into a large man's shoe, and include a rotary dial. |
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I want one of the enormous military surplus walkie talkies.
The ones where the handset is
2 feet long & the mike & speaker are 3 inch disks. The empty space inside would make a fine purse or
cd player. |
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[tenhand] I hadn't thought about the 'military look', but the phone which you describe would certainly turn heads. |
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Retro Cell Phone #5: REAL old style, with a fake crank on the side and voice recognition circuitry so you could wind the crank and say "Thelma, could you patch me through to..." |
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Why not one that looks like a stick with a split in the end of it holding a folded note?
[Seriously, is there such a thing as optimum technology? My wife and me were given a mobile each years back. We've never needed either of them, whereas my computer and her manual typewriter and our fax and extension phones are in constant use.] |
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a really ancient style-
like an ancient roman or maybe ancient egyptian
(of course they didn't have mobile phones,but something could be designed to look like it was a phone from those times) |
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Two cans connected by a white (string-colored) piece of stiff wire? |
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Two seashells. You could use real seashells with cellphone circuitry hidden inside. |
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and the phone would of course play any of your favourite tunes with the proviso that the tune must preceed the date 1979. Hence, Partridge Family theme tune, or any Beatles numbers etc. |
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Link added. It should be pretty easy to make a cell phone which looks exactly like the Fisher-Price phone... |
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could you not just buy one of those early mobiles that requires a wheelbarrow for the battery? |
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In principle, yes - except that you can't buy them any
more and they don't work with modern (digital) networks. |
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Link added - was illustration for my redundant retro phones idea, but now it's for this one. |
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//could you not just buy one of those early mobiles that requires a wheelbarrow for the battery?// |
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BTW, one advantage of some of the "bag" phones is that because the antenna isn't right next to the user's head they can be allowed a higher output power level. Not usually relevant in digital-service areas, but can be a plus in places where the nearest tower is a long way away (note: analog has longer range than digital) |
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I want a noir phone, with the "Spy Hunter" theme and "Casablanca" and "Mission Impossible" and "The Maltese Falcon" and so on. Lots of brass and bass. |
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I like this. I'd buy a retro phone. I love retro stuff.(+)
[supercat]the shoe phone would be cool too, but I'd want mine to be a woman's shoe. High heel cell phones. Might be kind of dangerous though. lol |
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[nick_n_uit] a phone that looked like a soda can would be kind of cute too. Or beer cans for rednecks. |
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What about like the (original) Star Trek Walkie talkies(comminicators?) They would make the same same sounds as well. |
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//I think i saw one somewhere already, but i want a cell phone that looks like a bannana.// see link |
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[hippo] your second and third links are down, you should tell a moderator or something. : ] |
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