You can now own a mobile phone with a rotary dial — if that’s really something you want

Krusty · Feb 18, 2020

One woman has come up with a strange Frankenstein of old and new technology that she thinks might be the perfect mobile phone.
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/you-can-now-own-a-mobile-phone-with-a-rotary-dial-if-thats-really-something-you-want/news-story/2a6a0221464428c54c70d0452d7d2c86

While some would be quite literally lost without theirs, smartphones that give us access to a world of information in our pocket but constantly ask to be pulled out of there and stared at have become so complicated many people now find them annoying.

This has triggered the rise of “dumbphones”, which look like the mobile phones of the past while still having some modern technologies.

These devices range from the quite cheap to the weirdly expensive.

Some customers opt for these phones to disconnect from the always online world – while others merely want to be seen to be doing so.

But if you’re looking for the ultimate disconnected phone, one tinkerer has the perfect device.

Justine Haupt is an associate scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

She’s also the creator of the open source Rotary Cellphone, a mobile phone with a tactile spinning dial like the kind that was common on house phones until around the 1980s.
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