It is becoming the dinosaur of phones. In the fast-paced, push-button, touch-tone world of South Florida, fewer and fewer people have rotary-dial telephones. “There’s no advantage in it… ...

News Space engineer builds working rotary dial cell phone, and you can, too Justine Haupt wanted a simple phone that just makes calls and doesn't do text messages. Now, she's showing how she did it.

Space engineer Justine Haupt wanted a cell phone that just made calls and nothing else. So she made a working rotary dial phone and is selling a kit.

After a half a century of using a rotary phone, George Murray of Bunbury, P.E.I., has no intention of replacing it with a new push-button model.