Wait until MCI goes behind your back and changes your service to them, and you get hit with a $300 bill that month, because every call is “long distance”. Yeah. Landlines were great.
We all know landlines won’t be coming back. They can try and make it cool with some fancy stock photos but mobile phones have killed them long time ago.
They’re selling them at Urban outfitters, Target, Best Buy, etc now hah!
Push button rotary 🤢
That’s like the “vintage” radios with fake plastic woodgrain and bluetooth/CD player built in.
Honestly I wouldn’t even mind an old school looking radio with Bluetooth especially if they used the big center for a battery or something. But push buttons are antithesis to a rotary phone
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
Further, classic copper networks are all almost gone, and will be going away, VOIP is the future, if they really want a land-line. It looks like they’re wired for ethernet, but it’s hard to tell and the most the Urban Outfitters site says is “The GPO 746 Rotary Telephone prides itself on its traditional and authentic look and feel with built-in modern technology” and “Compatible with modern telephone banking.” It seems to say nothing of specifications for either traditional copper wire or ethernet.
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
If its real hipsters, wouldn’t they eschew any newly made products and instead seek vintage items out of antique stores? (Because stuff from the 80s and 90s is now antiques). So no net new plastic.
Fucking hell, 40 for a plastic phone.
Definitely not targeting some silly ticktock users.
Here’s one from Best Buy
With retro princess phone bundle 😂
That’s Ooma, an ip phone service. You can do it for free with Google voice.
They’re going to popularize handsets that look and function like old bell deskphones. Slide your cell phone inside the charger, and you can press buttons and use the handset via bluetooth.
That’s existed since ~2005, at least for the handset part.
My country where most people still have them.
Do ISPs “offer” them on a non-optional basis?
I think I have a couple landline phones around somewhere. And my house still has wires and jacks. I could go retro any minute now!
Are you still going to pay for a landline tho?
I said I could, not that I would.
Hmm…
Well anyway hope these are rediscovered too:
Quite Stable Bonus:
I can see limited use for a land line if you changed your cell number and then only gave out the land line number to companies. There are probably cheaper ways utilizing Google voice numbers of protecting the privacy of your main cell number though.
I thought people below a certain age hate voice calls and will only text.
Yeah that’s why Gen Z people like answering machines as an add on to their landline phones!
This whole article is a load of shit and whoever posted it should feel bad
I don’t
completely based
spits
This is fucking stupid. It’s also probably like six people doing this.
The classic joke: “Do you know how journalists count? ‘One, two, trend’.”
Its so from nypost, which is garbage
Who paid for them to write this article?
This is the very instant I have turned old. 👴
Wait til they learn about rotary phones
Wait until.theynlearn about how much landlines cost these days. Forget avocado toast this is the real money sink.
The connection may be costly. But a beeline telephone costs less than 10$.
Landlines are dead, but I recently installed a VoIP phone because cell service at my house is great.
It is nice being able make calls reliabily now and the kids have a way to call 911 too.
here in the boonies, every cellular carrier, every internet provider, every–everything… goes out with single fiber cut. even cable tv goes dark since they took out local headend here (connected now via fiber to a town an hour away).
except for POTS, and the voice and data carried on it. when the whole town gets cut-off from the outside world for a whole day or more, which has happened four times in the last four years. the good ol’ shitty telco is still going; their cables are separate, and go entirely different directions out of town.
that’s why we still have a landline at the office; having a line-powered phone for when the power goes out (also not uncommon) is just a bonus.
As an 41 year old, I’ve actually used rotary phones and classic handsets when I was younger. And damn do I miss them. There was a distinct enjoyment in being able to properly slam down a phone when you wanted to make a point. Same thing with flip phones: you KNEW when someone hung up in a huff. Can’t quite get that point across on a smartphone.
I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.
I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.
Earbuds are the superior option.
As a 45 year old, damn do I not miss them at all.
i miss going out and not being connected, among people who also are just there in the present
i miss walking among people who are aware of their environment
Shit username though
When you see someone smash their iPhone 27 giga max ultra on the ground, you know they’re hanging up in a huff.
Hey I think you mistyped “iPhone 27 plus pro max premium giga ultra: enjoy what android’s had for years”
No they’re not, no they don’t.
it’s nypost, did you expect accuracy?
Bring back 2010-2019 smartphones, especially the ones with physical home buttons and notification LEDs
