Retro Rotary Landline Phone for Home, Vintage Rotary Dial Phone Old Fashion Telephone Corded Phone with Hands Free Function(Retro Black)

The phone is a very nice reproduction of a rotary type phone from around the mid 1900's.The dial is metal and the body of the phone is plastic with a old fashioned bakelite texture finish. The rotary dial is a working rotary, not fake push button type.There is a mechanical bell ringer, not a fake sound effect.This phone works with devices such as "Cell2Jack" for an easy bluetooth cellular interface and the mechanical bell ringer works fine with at least Cell2Jack I have found.There is modern features built in such as the # and * position on the rotary dial, center speakerphone button on the dial and last number redial button on the dial fingerstop.One thing worth noting... if you use or charge your cell phone too close to this phone it can cause digital static noise on the this phone while making an actual call on it. So, before thinking your phone has poor quality call audio, try moving any cell phones or other RFI causing devices further away (about 5 feet or more) from this phone.Otherwise, this phone is a fine phone and I am really enjoying using it with a cellular interface to provide an old fashioned desk phone to my home without the need for a telco landline account by using Cell2Jack as a cellular interface.

Okay, so it is a rotary looking old style phone that actually uses modern touch tone technology to make call and even has a speed last number redial function. It will work on any system that allows a modern phone to work including VOIP phone service!I use it with a magicjack and it works great and makes a cool conversation piece.The way it works is NOT with pulse dial service that the original old rotarty phones used instead you dial the rotary dial with your finger in the correctly numbered hole and as you turn the dial all the way to the end, there is a small metal catch that your finger must depress which creates the correct tone for dialing, it even has a "#" and a "*" that rotary phones never had. So they really can be used for making any type of call in a modern world yet have the authentic feel of the rotary phones from yesteryear's gone by.It also feels substantial like an older phone would have making the hand-piece comfortable to hold and use.I highly recommend this for the affordable price, you won't regret it.The only problem you might experience is if you intend to use this as an extension phone at the same time as others are talking on another extension at the same time, then the volume becomes pretty low, I suspect it is because modern voip systems don't supply enough current to power more than one phone at a time unless the phones are connected to power and supply their own current for functioning.You can have it hooked up as a second or third phone with no problem as long as you don't talk on it at the same time as others are on another extension phone on that line (if your phone line doesn't supply enough current as my magicjack and most VOIP systems don't).

I liked the product, at first. It looked nice and could also be used as a speaker phone. A rotary with redial was a nice touch.However, just this week-after a month and a half of use, it started making noise. The phone hasn't been dropped. No one was touching it. It still had a dial tone when I picked up the receiver. But the noise was too loud and too annoying, so I had to unplug the phone. Very sad because I liked the phone.

Good looking itemBox was rugged but nothing broken or scratched

I like this phone a lot. Our setup is with a splitter going to this phone and a cordless base station. I have the cordless on mute and let this phone ring. This allows me to have a satellite cordless in another part of the house. Also still allows me to take calls and wander around if I need to. Most of the time I sit right next to the phone cause its just a fun to use.I love some things about this phone:1) The Ring is fantastic and relaxing. I love hearing it ring2) the feel of the handset is authentic even though it's plastic3) the overall look is great. It looks nice on our end table and everyone loves it4) works flawlessly with voip.ms service and obihai 100 box for very cheap home phoneWhat I'd want to improve:1) Would like to be able to control the volume a bit2) Speakerphone speaker and mic are on bottom of phone making it hard for anyone to hear us and others are slightly muffled3) Would have liked jack option on the other side of the phone so I could put the handset plugged in in either spot.4) Phone is decently heavy, but does slide around when dialing, maybe some "grippier" feet would help.It's a fun phone with a nice vintage look and feel.