Why is the battery not fully charged?
Nah, I’m still using this smartphone
Oh man, you managed to actually get one? I’ve been waiting like 3 years now, at least. Same color I want too.
Hopefully soon. I’m not canceling this order.
Better. I’ve actually managed to get a screenshot of one!
Honestly love the vibe. Catch me on that rotary.
These are for sale this isn’t some AI mock up
Are they still for sale? Looks like there website just has blog posts about mfg status
They are not currently taking orders while they try and get a manufacturer to fulfill existing orders.
This seems targeted towards elderly people and while the implementation isn’t ideal the concept itself isn’t too bad.
Can you explain how this would suit the elderly? I must be missing something because it appears that thing is either a very complicated landline phone or a very cumbersome tablet that you can’t pick up and carry around. Imagine typing a WhatsApp message to your granddaughter on that.
If it connects the way I think it does, it would allow for the user to hold the “phone” part to their ear and dial on the touchpad like a traditional landline phone while being able to use wireless(*) technology.
The rest of the tablet apps are what make it not ideal, since its main use case seems to be the phone itself.
TL;DR: use like regular phone, other apps useless.
Edit: it would also make it simpler for grandma to make WhatsApp calls if she can hold the phone to her ear.
(*)2nd edit: “wireless” means non-landline, as in cellular.
4G capable “landline” phones have been a thing for ages and I see them every once in a while. No touch screen, just buttons like a traditional one
wireless
power cable
I have been lied to
I think what the other commenter was getting at is you can access a cellular connection (wireless) in a land line format
Shh, you’re ruining the joke
it would allow for the user to hold the “phone” part to their ear and dial on the touchpad like a traditional landline phone while being able to use wireless technology
Lol, that looped wire coming out of the handset means it’s not wireless
I think what the other commenter was getting at is you can access a cellular connection (wireless) in a land line format
the biggest advantage of this is that I can answer the call with wet/thick gloved hands. modern phones should have a dedicated answer key.
That’s what your nose is for 🙃
That’s how I made collect calls back in the 90s: I was also a parrot, back then. Your experience may have differed.
yes. I text that way too in such situations.
No thanks. I might accidentally slip onto that button and accept a call. And I never accept calls 😁
most of the time I accept call when a friend is in some distress. or when one of the parties is in a position where texting isn’t viable and it’s something urgent.
and yes I like random misdialed calls or scam calls (I think my numbers are in scammers’ blocklists lol). I always pick them :).
I can hear the questions from grandma asking how to find the dial pad after she accidentally deletes it from the homescreen.
Other then that this reminds me of TV shows or moves that had video telephones in homes mounted on walls similar to this. You would make a call and their face would appear on the screen, you could even broadcast to all screen in the house.
Total Recall 1990
god i want scifi with this vibe, like how retro scifi is always just the cool future tech glued together with the things that were normal back then
Look out! It’s going to fire it’s laser!
:A bunch of feral cats materialize and chase a red dot around your chest:
Looks likes the telecom equivalent of when the flintstones met the jetsons.
I’d this a real thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am.
Would be ideal for my workplace. After we got a replacement for our malfunctioning Panasonic intercom system, it was a major stepdown, with little to no features, and some badly working ones (redial of external numbers don’t work because it would need to press
9for an external line, etc).https://www.grandstream.com/products/ip-video-telephony/ip-video-phones-android/product/gxv3470 <-- that’s something like this, if not the same? These are useful for those call centers where they can put the app that has all the forms + scripts the person on the phone are following, and they would not need any other technology at their desks.
I would love for this to be a dock for my phone and my desk.
It’d be nice to set your mobile in one and have it connect to other units in a house to mimic landlines.
Just your usual android phone
There was this dumb ‘headset’ that retro enthusiasts loved that was just a big old Mah Bell phone receiver that plugged into your '00s era dumb phone.
Combine that with a High Quality landline phone ringtone and you’d be the coolest dork at the nerd party for approximately 5 minutes.
