We all know landlines won’t be coming back. They can try and make it cool with some fancy stock photos but mobile phones have killed them long time ago.
They’re going to popularize handsets that look and function like old bell deskphones. Slide your cell phone inside the charger, and you can press buttons and use the handset via bluetooth.
That’s existed since ~2005, at least for the handset part.
They’re selling them at Urban outfitters, Target, Best Buy, etc now hah!
Fucking hell, 40 for a plastic phone.
Definitely not targeting some silly ticktock users.
Here’s one from Best Buy
With retro princess phone bundle 😂
That’s Ooma, an ip phone service. You can do it for free with Google voice.
Push button rotary 🤢
That’s like the “vintage” radios with fake plastic woodgrain and bluetooth/CD player built in.
Honestly I wouldn’t even mind an old school looking radio with Bluetooth especially if they used the big center for a battery or something. But push buttons are antithesis to a rotary phone
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
Further, classic copper networks are all almost gone, and will be going away, VOIP is the future, if they really want a land-line. It looks like they’re wired for ethernet, but it’s hard to tell and the most the Urban Outfitters site says is “The GPO 746 Rotary Telephone prides itself on its traditional and authentic look and feel with built-in modern technology” and “Compatible with modern telephone banking.” It seems to say nothing of specifications for either traditional copper wire or ethernet.
God damn the fucking garbage hipsters spend money on.
It’s not like the planet is drowning in pointless plastic anyway.
If its real hipsters, wouldn’t they eschew any newly made products and instead seek vintage items out of antique stores? (Because stuff from the 80s and 90s is now antiques). So no net new plastic.
No they’re not, no they don’t.
it’s nypost, did you expect accuracy?
This is utter fuckin nonsense.
Not a single zoomer gives a fuck about landline phones, not even Zillennials who grew up with landlines.
These are a novelty, a fad, that’ll wear off within a week.This is fucking stupid. It’s also probably like six people doing this.
Its so from nypost, which is garbage
As an 41 year old, I’ve actually used rotary phones and classic handsets when I was younger. And damn do I miss them. There was a distinct enjoyment in being able to properly slam down a phone when you wanted to make a point. Same thing with flip phones: you KNEW when someone hung up in a huff. Can’t quite get that point across on a smartphone.
I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.
As a 45 year old, damn do I not miss them at all.
i miss going out and not being connected, among people who also are just there in the present
i miss walking among people who are aware of their environment
Shit username though
I also miss being able to properly shoulder a handset to keep your hands free.
Earbuds are the superior option.
When you see someone smash their iPhone 27 giga max ultra on the ground, you know they’re hanging up in a huff.
Hey I think you mistyped “iPhone 27 plus pro max premium giga ultra: enjoy what android’s had for years”
So tired of these “Gen Z are…” articles. They’re always horseshit.
It’s just how things rotate out. Gen X had it, Millenials had it, now it’s Gen Z’s turn. It gets views from older generations who want any excuse to look down on those who’ve come after, and the generation in-question when they see the headline and think “what? Who the fuck is doing that? What are they talking about?”
Get ready for it to go on through the next decade or so.
(That said, it is horseshit, and “that’s how it’s always been” is no excuse to let things continue like that. I wouldn’t mind seeing an end put to it, myself)
Except nobody cares about gen x. The poor forgotten generation.
Case in point, watch this excellent ad, and see how gen x are treated. :-)
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Hmm…
Well anyway hope these are rediscovered too:
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it’s not like other generations didn’t keep ancient phones around for decoration. there are even adapters, to make rotary phones work with newer tech.
Adapters to make my cell phone rotary? Got a link?
Landlines are dead, but I recently installed a VoIP phone because cell service at my house isn’t great.
It is nice being able make calls reliabily now and the kids have a way to call 911 too.
here in the boonies, every cellular carrier, every internet provider, every–everything… goes out with single fiber cut. even cable tv goes dark since they took out local headend here (connected now via fiber to a town an hour away).
except for POTS, and the voice and data carried on it. when the whole town gets cut-off from the outside world for a whole day or more, which has happened four times in the last four years. the good ol’ shitty telco is still going; their cables are separate, and go entirely different directions out of town.
that’s why we still have a landline at the office; having a line-powered phone for when the power goes out (also not uncommon) is just a bonus.
Wait until MCI goes behind your back and changes your service to them, and you get hit with a $300 bill that month, because every call is “long distance”. Yeah. Landlines were great.
I thought people below a certain age hate voice calls and will only text.
Yeah that’s why Gen Z people like answering machines as an add on to their landline phones!
We should bring back not having phone so employers can calls us outside of work hours to come in
bringing back digital cameras
Bruh, they never left. It’s called professional photography.
Unless they mean the point and shoot variety that cell phones had replaced?
Literally this they never left. I have like 3 point & shoot digital cameras laying around for when actual events come up and my low tier trash phone camera won’t suffice.
They still use them in photography classes my guy.Any modern phone would shit all over that thing, and the photography class my high school runs (Public school in the US btw) has regular DSLRs with the fancy swappable lenses photographers like so much
Modern phones that cost way more then $39 that you’ll be crying over when it falls into a lake or some shit during vacation.
There’s much better ones made for actual film production that cost a ridiculous amount that can shoot upwards of 8k.
Point is they’re still very much around; maybe not as common as in the past but still around, unlike landline which is pretty much completely dead.Public school in the US btw
Likely one that has a lot of tax dollars…
A DLSR that only shoots in 1080p already cost ~$400, 4k usually go for $2 grand at least.
I think I have a couple landline phones around somewhere. And my house still has wires and jacks. I could go retro any minute now!
Are you still going to pay for a landline tho?
I said I could, not that I would.
Who paid for them to write this article?
