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Posted on 07/27/2013 1:00:37 PM PDT by Dallas59
Years ago an elderly woman asked me if she could borrow my cell phone to make a call. I said “sure, just press the numbers and hit send.” She held the phone to her ear and asked “where’s the dial tone?”
No, there’s slots for two SIM cards. I have one O2, one Vodafone. Two separate numbers. Just pop in both your SIM cards in the two slots, and you’re good to go.
Or "call waiting."
"Hold on, I need to take the call of someone more important than you."
"If you need me, just call. You know how to dial, don't you? You just put your finger in the hole and make tiny little circles. "
-PJ
I remember being bored by this while waiting for the cartoon that came before the movie. Then a few days later the new phone came and I couldn’t listen in to the neighbors anymore.
I do. In fact, I can still remember the number for the radio station (WRKO) - 266 6868. That was not exactly a rotary-friendly number when you were trying to be the 7th caller for a pair of Three Dog Night tickets.
There were also radio contests that asked an obscure trivia question, such as what is Alice Cooper's real name. Now any cellar-dwelling loser can Google up that answer and speed dial a radio station in 3.2 seconds.
Speed dialing and Google killed the radio contest.
I do the same thing by using a single phone, with two “virtual” numbers that forward to it. The caller ID is set up to show which number was dialled so I know if the call is business or personal.
There are a few thousand old rotary phones for sale on ebay.
I don’t think dual sim phones are allowed by carriers in the US yet. They weren’t earlier this year. The carriers want control of the cards so you don’t use two different carriers on the same phone.
-PJ
I have a Seafoam Green rotary phone about a foot away from me right now. Wonderful phone!
You can buy them online; they’re unlocked and you can put any SIM into it. I like it - it’s pretty convenient.
And check this out: http://www.everbuying.com/product432249.html
Dual SIM, bluetooth, quadband. And less than $100.
I want one of these. They’re on Ebay, but I’d need to find one wired for the Czech Republic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericofon
You mean to tell me that there is no App for a rotary dial on your smart phone! LOL
My parents had the same black phones for decades. The only one I could use was a wall phone in the kitchen. It was great being a teenager and trying to talk to a girl with Mom and Dad sitting 10 feet away!
We were Elgin 6-9564.
Except that it there were only some many long distance lines, and the signalling was done in-band, and so it was more efficient to minimize the time to pulse the digits to more profitable places than others. That is, the LD lines could be turned over faster.
Hence, sending out 26 clicks to Hawaii or Alaska was a better use of LD lines than say the large populations of NYC, Chicago, or LA, which got the minimal 5, 6, and 6 respectively.
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