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September 9, 2004 10:15 PM

ever miss the feel of a big plastic reciver. I guess these guys did.
posted by delmoi (18 comments total)

I'm thinking about doing something similar to use with a VOIP phone and my second sound card.
posted by angry modem at 10:20 PM on September 9, 2004

If I didn't hate cell phones, I'd get something like this. Those tiny cell phones are stupid and, dare I say, unnatural. :)
posted by dobbs at 11:00 PM on September 9, 2004

The cb mike is hott.
posted by rhapsodie at 11:28 PM on September 9, 2004

I loathe Fonzworth P Bently with a passion I can't describe.
posted by Cyrano at 11:52 PM on September 9, 2004

If I ever--- ever see somebody using the DJ Convoy, I will garrotte them with their own cords. and steal their iPod.

In fact, I might make it my life's mission to hunt down and kill that model.

I'm just sayin'....
posted by keswick at 1:17 AM on September 10, 2004

Surely at least one of these models should be called the Nathan Barley.
posted by fullerine at 2:05 AM on September 10, 2004

I want a model that looks like this.
posted by sciurus at 4:41 AM on September 10, 2004

or like this.
posted by sciurus at 4:43 AM on September 10, 2004

Way cool - I would use one, I can barely dial my freakin' Nokia without "mashing" the wrong button, let alone hold the thing to my head. Frankly I think the entire target market and focus group they used must have been Japanese pre-teen schoolgirls. Miniaturization is nice, but most of us simply can't evolve that fast.

Obligatory Simpsons reference:

[Homer tries to call the nuclear power plant]
Voice on Phone: "The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."
posted by jkaczor at 5:26 AM on September 10, 2004

I'm about to dump my home phone and use my cell phone exclusively. I would definitely buy one of these.
posted by jpoulos at 6:56 AM on September 10, 2004

This is pretty neat. However, I can solder and am sure there is a way to do this oneself fairly inexpensively.

Cell phone Pinout google search

Shouldn't be much work at all given the appropriate connector & a modicum of research. Wonder why he hooked it to the port on the bottom of the phone rather than the hands free headset port. Hmm.
posted by jester69 at 6:56 AM on September 10, 2004

A better pinout link
posted by jester69 at 7:02 AM on September 10, 2004

A guy I used to work with had a part-time job in a television store (this was a while back, obviously) as a sales/service guy. They used to sell TVs by telling customers that they were made of "telephone plastic" and asking them if they'd ever seen a broken telephone (okay, it was a long while back, when the telco owned the phone and they were made to last).

Now, back to the original thread, which was already in progress.
posted by tommasz at 7:35 AM on September 10, 2004

I want one that looks like this. Think those scum-sucking Williamsburg hipsters are gonna out-do me?
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 7:44 AM on September 10, 2004

These are pretty fucking sweet, to be sure, but wouldn't the handset suck your battery power dry? I mean, they have to be entire orders of magnitude less efficient than a modern handset.
posted by mkultra at 7:45 AM on September 10, 2004

The Mayfair is awesome.
posted by kenko at 7:50 AM on September 10, 2004

I endorse the basic idea on the basis of perversity alone, but I wonder about what mkultra said also.
posted by soyjoy at 7:53 AM on September 10, 2004

Actually as someone who's never really gotten used to the weird "is this brain cancer" microwave feeling of a normal cel phone right up to my skull, or the Time Life operator feeling of a headset, I love the idea of a nice headset with frightening cel device kept away from my head. [This is great]
posted by Peter H at 10:03 AM on September 10, 2004