I really miss that style. They felt nice on the ear and were comfortable to hold. Holding a smartphone to your ear always feels so fucking awkward.
>>108909983i have one but no one ever calls it
>>108909983I have a novelty gift one which acts as a bluetooth headset for VoiP calls.Has the traditional bakelite rounded shape and everything. Great gag gift.(And ironically actually more comfortable than a real headset for short calls.)
>>108909983Everywhere Ive worked since like 2005 until today has those Cisco PoE phones, if that counts. I avoid using them as much as possible but my coworkers use them daily.
Not really. I have picrel but got tired of people whining "your voice sounds funny" and then having to explain it's because I'm using a POTS phone with a carbon mic, and then "Whaaaats thaaat???" etc... it was tiring.
>>108910074>"your voice sounds funny">"really? weird...anyway, what did you want?"You fucking autist.
>>108910074There might be something wrong with that phone. Maybe the mic holes are clogged. I'm still using a landline phone that does not provide the clarity of high bandwidth telephone communication like it is standard now but it's still perfectly clear for how telephones just sounded like back in the 00s and 90s
>>108910084I saw these movies called the Accountant and the Accountant 2, the main character is an autist but learns through logic and pattern recognition how to emulate a normalfag. Why cant real autists do that?
>>108910128They are too autistic.
It's the only phone I use actually
>>108910074Why not use VoIP?
>>108910125It's a Cortelco 2500 phone, it's basically a modern copy of the OG Bell System 2500 phone - same touch-tone circuit, mechanical ringer, carbon mic etc...Carbon mics sound scratchy/distorted because your voice is shaking little carbon granules inside the mic capsule to basically do a kind of PWM on the DC talk current. That's how phones could exist before vacuum tubes.
>>108910315>Carbon mics sound scratchy/distorted because your voice is shaking little carbon granules inside the mic capsule to basically do a kind of PWM on the DC talk current.Oh right, I forgot. Yeah well the ones I use are from the late 80s and 90s and those used more modern mics
>>108909983Thoughts on the British GPO telephone 706?
>>108910074I have a couple older rotary phones in service, one with a cell2jack and another with an old Xlink BT. I will say the Xlink has better sound quality. I've heard myself on the other end and those old carbon mics aren't too bad.
