The more things change, the more they stay the same. Isn’t that true? In this age of Smartphones, Justine Haupt invented a rotary cell phone, “Because,” she said, “in a finicky, annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using phones they have no control over or understanding of, I wanted something that would be entirely mine, personal, and absolutely tactile, while also giving me an excuse for not texting…”<\/span><\/p>\n When I say Justine invented the rotary cell phone, I mean it. Here’s a photo of the prototypes.<\/span><\/p>\n Justine said she invented the rotary cell phone because, “…in a finicky, annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using phones they have no control over or understanding of, I wanted something that would be entirely mine, personal, and absolutely tactile, while also giving me an excuse for not texting…” <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n She calls it “The Un-smart Phone”. And if you are already wanting to get your hands on one, you’ll have to wait. Right now the rotary cellphone is only available in kit-form and only connects to 3G service. But if you’re willing to wait, here’s some good news from the inventor:<\/span><\/p>\n “Due to a surprising number of requests from people wanting a ready-built (or nearly ready-built) rotary cell phone, I’m working on a more refined “mark 2” version. So far this is how it’s shaping up:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Connects to the 4G network, which will be active for at least the next decade<\/em><\/span> Interested in going back to the days when phones had rotary dials and were only meant for talking? Then visit this page<\/span><\/strong><\/a> and read more about Justine Haupt’s rotary-dial un-smartphones.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Justine, the un-smartphones are coming in September 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back to the Future: The Un-Smartphone is Coming The more things change, the more they stay the same. Isn’t that true? In this age of Smartphones, Justine Haupt invented a rotary cell phone, “Because,” she said, “in a finicky, annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using phones they have no control over or understanding of, I\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,256,3964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19580,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions\/19580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Rotary](\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/rotary.png\")
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\nReal, mechanical ringer bell<\/em><\/span>
\nSilent vibration mode (no “vibrate hum”)<\/em><\/span>
\nLarger ePaper display than on the current version<\/em><\/span>
\nContacts are added by editing a text file that’s stored on an SD card<\/em><\/span>
\nWill use newly manufactured rotary dial mechanisms<\/em><\/span>
\nEasy access to SD card slot<\/em><\/span>
\nUser-repairable; not planned for obsolescence<\/em><\/span>
\nInjection-molded casing<\/em><\/span>
\nSeparate USB port for direct access to the cell transceiver via AT commands (for those who are interested in such things)…”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n