Assuming I’d want to get in the way-back machine and go to a simpler time, this Bluetooth-equipped rotary phone might do the trick quite nicely. TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo.

12 thoughts on “ Old-school Rotary Phone Gets GSM Upgrade ” kimmoli says: ... Somewhere in a box of stuff I still have my first cell phone, an old Motorola analog bag phone.

I have an old rotary dial POTS phone lying around, and I thought it would be cool to be able to use it to make calls. The most flexible way to do that would be to have it act as a mic and speaker ...

Eric Chilton managed to get an old rotary phone to work through his smartphone. He shares a tutorial on how he did it.

The idea is to use the rotary dial from an old telephone to enter numbers into a computer. It’s slow and cumbersome, but it’s also pretty entertaining.

Steampunk Rotary Smartphone Combines Grandma's Old Phone With Your Touchscreen By Shane McGlaun June 20, 2011 7:48 am EST When I was a kid I had an old-fashioned rotary phone in my room because it ...

It had been about 30 years since Cristina Wilcox used a rotary phone. But when a massive storm hit the Quad-Cities July 21, it was back to the future for There's no phone like an old (rotary) phone ...