A frustrated Justine Haupt came up with an unorthodox solution: she designed and built a mobile phone with a rotary dial that looks like it's 40 years old. There's an entire generation that ...

is that rapid numeric keying is not what this rotary dial numpad keyboard is all about. In fact, it’s actually an April Fool’s prank [Squidgeefish] played on a retro-phone-obsessed coworker ...

When he picked up his house phone, he didn’t know what that strange noise was. One of his aides had to explain the dial tone to the former president, and also how to use a rotary phone.

For those of you who’ve never seen (or even heard) about a rotary dial phone, it was a telephone that had a circular dial with holes in it that corresponded to the different numbers. When this ...