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Question: if I purchase an Ealing Bluetooth model and use it on a regular basis, will I still have any friends? I guess I might not really care. LOOK AT IT. I hope it's LOUD.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 20 September 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Mayfair model, all the way.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.goodfoundation.com/other/pokia/2004/media/newphones/ealing_nik.jpg
I swear to God this is Viggo Mortenson.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Why is it called Ealing??

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always said that I'll only ever be tempted to get a mobile phone is if they produce a real old-old type one. With the separate bits for speaking/receiving. Yeah.

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Like this:

http://www.telephoneart.com/antique/we20b.gif

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

or this:
http://www.goodfoundation.com/other/pokia/pokia2/media/phoneimages/mayfair/mayfair_small.jpg
Mayfair model, sister.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ahoy, hoy.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay, dave225, I want I want. Serves me right for not clicking the link, tho'.

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It's fucking ridiculous.. It takes two hands to use it! Too bad they can't also add a crank in place of the "Send" button.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's precisely that total lack of convenience paired with ridiculous pretense that makes me love it. I like the crank idea too. We could start a business where you only called us and we would act as a switchboard to whatever number you wanted to call.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course I would never carry one. My entourage would have to carry it for me.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 20 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I would totally put the bluetooth one in my backpack. Walking around talking into a big chunky plastic receiver with a cut cord dangling has been a fantasy of mine ever since I got a mobile phone. HAHA, you handsfree people think YOU look crazy?!? I GOTCHA ALL BEAT, LOOK AT ME, TOTALLY INSANE.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

this will catch on like trucker hats

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

No, CB radios (and lingo) will catch on like trucker hats.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 September 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

let me know when basement jaxx remixes "convoy"

― amateur!!st, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Not at £310 apiece they won't.

xpost.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 20 September 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd really want one of these. But that seems like an awful lot of money for such a simple design. Does anyone know how to hack a phone to get it to do this?

I read somewhere all you do is splice the red/green wires on a headset chord to the red/green wires on a telephone headset. Does anyone know if this works? I'd try it but I have no headset chord...

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Monday, 20 September 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

this will ruin the joke in bowfinger for generations to come

― jones (actual), Monday, 20 September 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I ran into a former classmate of mine this weekend and he had put cellphone electronics inside an old style phone case. I asked him if he carried it around and he said yes. I thought this a little extreme and inconvenient, but in for a penny, in for a pound, I guess. He had even hacked it so the phone's original bell rang. Didn't ask him how difficult it was, but I don't imagine it would be that bad.

There was an article about the general phenomenon of the kids going for retro analog devices in the NY Times recently, but you have to pay to read it now.

To be clear, this is what he put his electronics in and carries around with him (the whole thing): http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~turkel/phone.jpg

― Comme personne (common_person), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Why, let's retrofit housekeys so that they're all big and cumbersome like the kind that unlock castle doors! And let's make CD's the size of laser discs. That way, we'll be able to get our LP-sized artwork back! Or let's make our mp3 players the size of old skool boomboxes!

LP-sized CD's..... You know, I started out this post as a snarky little thing of sarcasm, but now, I'm not so sure of myself.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Times article mentions 1) CDs with labels that make them look like 45s (mentioned grooves, not sure if it meant actual tactile ridges in the label or just slicking paint job); and 2) an RCA Victrola-style CD player, complete with (non-functional) crank.

― Comme personne (common_person), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a line of Verbatim CD-Rs that have LP labels printed on them. (With tactile ridges!)

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waiting on the Get Smart shoe attachment.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

thats what the article mentioned hayden..

theres this other kool kid in the article who has the ZACH MORRIS cell phone, which is pretty dope. it can hold 9 numbers in memory. 9, people!!!

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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