• Broadfern@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    This seems targeted towards elderly people and while the implementation isn’t ideal the concept itself isn’t too bad.

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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      It’d be nice to set your mobile in one and have it connect to other units in a house to mimic landlines.

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    8 months ago

    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 1000029614

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    8 months ago

    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 9 for an external line, etc).

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      8 months ago

      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.