One of the useful side effects of the ubiquitous availability of cellular network data modules is that they can be used to create custom mobile phones. It’s surprising in a way that we don’t see as ...

Hello operator Can you give me number nine? Can I see you later? Will you give me back my dime? So sang Jack White, of the quite excellent White Stripes. Little did he know that barely 11 years after ...

I am one of the few people left in the country that owns and uses a rotary-dial telephone. Call me old-fashioned, but I just like the sound of that bell instead of an electronic noise when the phone ...

We’re not sure about the rest of you, but to us, a keyboard without a number pad all the way over to the right just seems kind of — naked? We might not be accountants, but there’s something comforting ...

Nobody has ever wished that Twitter's 140-character limit were even stricter, but then, nobody before had ever tried Tweeting from an old-school rotary-dial phone. Enter Tweephone, a phone that will ...

As convenient as modern cellphones are, there's a certain charm to spinning an old-fashioned rotary dial to make a call -- and now, there's a cellphone that caters to that nostalgia. Brookhaven ...

YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial instead of buttons and can make calls and send texts. YouTuber Mr. Volt created his own cell phone - which has a rotary dial ...

That takes old-school to a new level. A space engineer who despises smartphones and text messaging built her own cell phone -- and it has a rotary dial. Justine Haupt, 34, spent three years creating ...