Lee found this phone on Facebook Marketplace ... and “installed” a rotary phone, with no wires connecting it to anything. Sasaki would go into the booth and talk to his cousin.

A lot has happened since this phone last graced the pages of Hackaday. For one thing, it’s now officially known as the Rotary Un-Smartphone. [Justine] has also spun up a small company for the ...

Haupt’s rotary cell phone features … well, not very much. But for some that will be its appeal. Some of the physical buttons on the device, for example, can be set up to link to frequently ...

A few years ago Justine Haupt combined classic phone design and modern tech to create a working cellphone with a rotary dial. Later she began selling kits to folks who wanted to make their own.

Just when you thought rotary phones had been relegated to the prop department, Gen Z has dialed back in. Landlines are trending—and not because they’re useful in an emergency. They’re ...

The movie is titled The Black Phone. The horror film is set in 1978. But the movie’s main prop — a rotary dial wall-mounted phone — had to be explained to the film’s breakout star ...

(Meg Dalton/ Connecticut Public Radio) On a recent Sunday, Kate Bagnati approached an old, cream-colored rotary phone sitting in a grove of trees outside the historic Ridgebury Congregational ...

One cemetery in Maryville has found a way to try and make that process a little easier with help from a rotary phone. Visitors can use the phone to call whoever they’re missing and speak with ...