Need Rotary Dial Cellophone

I have always had the same phone at home and its a rotary dial phone.
Suddenly my children got me a cellophone and it has push button
dialing. I can not understand how to operate any push button phone
and besides that I just dont like them because I always dial the wrong
number. Phones always had and still should have a rotary dialer. I
told them that I will use the cellophone if they get a rotary kind.
They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
cellophone with rotary dial?

Granma K

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<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
> cellophone with rotary dial?

You seem to have no problems using a keyboard. What's the issue with a
keypad? And no, I don't know of any cell phones with rotary dials. They
haven't made a mobile phone with a rotary dial in about 25 years, since MTS
went over to IMTS.

However, I've often wondered what will happen to me in 30 or 40 years when
all the communications devices are thought activated. The only problem is
that you have to train your mind to do it when you are under 6 years of age.
There I'll be at 90-something unable to communicate with anyone because I
can't figure out how to make TMS (Thought Message Service) work. I feel your
pain.

--
Donald R. Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net

Dunno,

Does anyone know where Granny can get a Cellophone? Maybe she could try
wrapping cellophane around the cell phone and then she would have a
cellophone, however that still does not solve the issue of the rotary dial.

"Donald Newcomb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:44b4173d@kcnews01...
>
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
>> cellophone with rotary dial?
>
> You seem to have no problems using a keyboard. What's the issue with a
> keypad? And no, I don't know of any cell phones with rotary dials. They
> haven't made a mobile phone with a rotary dial in about 25 years, since
> MTS
> went over to IMTS.
>
> However, I've often wondered what will happen to me in 30 or 40 years when
> all the communications devices are thought activated. The only problem is
> that you have to train your mind to do it when you are under 6 years of
> age.
> There I'll be at 90-something unable to communicate with anyone because I
> can't figure out how to make TMS (Thought Message Service) work. I feel
> your
> pain.
>
> --
> Donald R. Newcomb
> DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net
>
>

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:28:02 -0500, "Donald Newcomb"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>
>> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
>> cellophone with rotary dial?
>
>You seem to have no problems using a keyboard. What's the issue with a
>keypad? And no, I don't know of any cell phones with rotary dials. They
>haven't made a mobile phone with a rotary dial in about 25 years, since MTS
>went over to IMTS.
>
>However, I've often wondered what will happen to me in 30 or 40 years when
>all the communications devices are thought activated. The only problem is
>that you have to train your mind to do it when you are under 6 years of age.
>There I'll be at 90-something unable to communicate with anyone because I
>can't figure out how to make TMS (Thought Message Service) work. I feel your
>pain.

I should have said that I have 2 problems. I have arthritis and cant
touch the right keys easily on a cellophone. I have very bad eyes
too. I have a special keyboard with large letters on the keys. It
still takes a long time to type. Phones cant wait for me to find the
numbers. If i am slow they disconnect. My rotary phone is easy to use
with large numbers glued on that I got at the senior center. Rotary
phones are much easuier to use.

On 12 Jul 2006 08:34:41 GMT, "Yenc-Post" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>[email protected] wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> I have always had the same phone at home and its a rotary dial phone.
>> Suddenly my children got me a cellophone and it has push button
>> dialing. I can not understand how to operate any push button phone
>> and besides that I just dont like them because I always dial the wrong
>> number. Phones always had and still should have a rotary dialer. I
>> told them that I will use the cellophone if they get a rotary kind.
>> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
>> cellophone with rotary dial?
>>
>> Granma K
>>
>
>At the Troll Store.

Thank you
Do they have a website or do you have their phone number?

wrote in alt.cellular

> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:28:02 -0500, "Donald Newcomb"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>><[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>
>>> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
>>> cellophone with rotary dial?
>>
>>You seem to have no problems using a keyboard. What's the issue with a
>>keypad? And no, I don't know of any cell phones with rotary dials. They
>>haven't made a mobile phone with a rotary dial in about 25 years, since
>>MTS went over to IMTS.
>>
>>However, I've often wondered what will happen to me in 30 or 40 years
>>when all the communications devices are thought activated. The only
>>problem is that you have to train your mind to do it when you are under
>>6 years of age. There I'll be at 90-something unable to communicate with
>>anyone because I can't figure out how to make TMS (Thought Message
>>Service) work. I feel your pain.
>
> I should have said that I have 2 problems. I have arthritis and cant
> touch the right keys easily on a cellophone. I have very bad eyes
> too. I have a special keyboard with large letters on the keys. It
> still takes a long time to type. Phones cant wait for me to find the
> numbers. If i am slow they disconnect. My rotary phone is easy to use
> with large numbers glued on that I got at the senior center. Rotary
> phones are much easuier to use.


Check out the firefly from Cingular. It is designed for kids, and does not
allow you to dial numbers. Someone puts in a set of numbers and then the
kid chooses the appropriate number to dial. I am thinking that if you use
this you will not have to enter the number the in, only have to select the
number you are going to dial.
And you can get cell phones with large numbers and large screens, thus
making it easier to see and dial.
And, almost every cell phone will allow you to have one button dialing. You
set on button to call a specific number. Then when you want to call someone
you just push that button.

--
Dick #1349
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin

Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com
email: [email protected]

I think that the Troll Store has a website.

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On 12 Jul 2006 08:34:41 GMT, "Yenc-Post" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>[email protected] wrote in
>>news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> I have always had the same phone at home and its a rotary dial phone.
>>> Suddenly my children got me a cellophone and it has push button
>>> dialing. I can not understand how to operate any push button phone
>>> and besides that I just dont like them because I always dial the wrong
>>> number. Phones always had and still should have a rotary dialer. I
>>> told them that I will use the cellophone if they get a rotary kind.
>>> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
>>> cellophone with rotary dial?
>>>
>>> Granma K
>>>
>>
>>At the Troll Store.
>
> Thank you
> Do they have a website or do you have their phone number?

Somewhere around Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:47:54 -0500, while reading
alt.cellular, I think I thought I saw this post from [email protected]:

>I should have said that I have 2 problems. I have arthritis and cant
>touch the right keys easily on a cellophone. I have very bad eyes
>too. I have a special keyboard with large letters on the keys. It
>still takes a long time to type. Phones cant wait for me to find the
>numbers. If i am slow they disconnect. My rotary phone is easy to use
>with large numbers glued on that I got at the senior center. Rotary
>phones are much easuier to use.

So, are you saying that it's easier to place your finger inside a slot, then
move the rotary dial all the way around to the stop without slipping, then
it is to simply press a button? I'm sorry, but that's unbelievable. I
could see if you simply needed larger numbers and buttons, but that's
available for both home phones and cell phones; especially for home phones,
and not expensive. Using a rotary phone is crazy, much harder, and makes
absolutely no sense except for mechanical switches that are no longer
necessary.

An what do you mean that phones can't wait? They don't connect until you
press the send key, so until then, they don't disconnect. My cell phone will
wait at least a few minutes between each press; the light may time out, but
as soon as I press the next button, it comes back on.

Methinks you're just trying to get attention or yank our chains.

--
Marty - public.forums (at) gmail (dot) com
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...
well, I have others." - Groucho Marx

[email protected] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:28:02 -0500, "Donald Newcomb"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> ><[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >
> >> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
> >> cellophone with rotary dial?
> >
> >You seem to have no problems using a keyboard. What's the issue with a
> >keypad? And no, I don't know of any cell phones with rotary dials. They
> >haven't made a mobile phone with a rotary dial in about 25 years, since MTS
> >went over to IMTS.
> >
> >However, I've often wondered what will happen to me in 30 or 40 years when
> >all the communications devices are thought activated. The only problem is
> >that you have to train your mind to do it when you are under 6 years of age.
> >There I'll be at 90-something unable to communicate with anyone because I
> >can't figure out how to make TMS (Thought Message Service) work. I feel your
> >pain.
>
> I should have said that I have 2 problems. I have arthritis and cant
> touch the right keys easily on a cellophone. I have very bad eyes
> too. I have a special keyboard with large letters on the keys. It
> still takes a long time to type. Phones cant wait for me to find the
> numbers. If i am slow they disconnect. My rotary phone is easy to use
> with large numbers glued on that I got at the senior center. Rotary
> phones are much easuier to use.

I've never seen an arthritic that would find it easier to DIAL a rotary
phone than press buttons.

If this thread is legit, you're the first.

Notan

Me neither. It is obviously a Troll.

"Notan" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:28:02 -0500, "Donald Newcomb"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> ><[email protected]> wrote in message
>> >news:[email protected]...
>> >
>> >> They said they dont know where to buy one. Where can they buy a
>> >> cellophone with rotary dial?
>> >
>> >You seem to have no problems using a keyboard. What's the issue with a
>> >keypad? And no, I don't know of any cell phones with rotary dials. They
>> >haven't made a mobile phone with a rotary dial in about 25 years, since
>> >MTS
>> >went over to IMTS.
>> >
>> >However, I've often wondered what will happen to me in 30 or 40 years
>> >when
>> >all the communications devices are thought activated. The only problem
>> >is
>> >that you have to train your mind to do it when you are under 6 years of
>> >age.
>> >There I'll be at 90-something unable to communicate with anyone because
>> >I
>> >can't figure out how to make TMS (Thought Message Service) work. I feel
>> >your
>> >pain.
>>
>> I should have said that I have 2 problems. I have arthritis and cant
>> touch the right keys easily on a cellophone. I have very bad eyes
>> too. I have a special keyboard with large letters on the keys. It
>> still takes a long time to type. Phones cant wait for me to find the
>> numbers. If i am slow they disconnect. My rotary phone is easy to use
>> with large numbers glued on that I got at the senior center. Rotary
>> phones are much easuier to use.
>
> I've never seen an arthritic that would find it easier to DIAL a rotary
> phone than press buttons.
>
> If this thread is legit, you're the first.
>
> Notan

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:01:12 -0700, "Mij Adyaw" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I think that the Troll Store has a website.

http://www.trolls.com

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >At the Troll Store.
>
> Thank you
> Do they have a website or do you have their phone number?

He's accusing you of being a Troll. That's someone who starts absurd threads
on news groups or forums just to watch the fun that ensues when people
respond. I must admit that my first reaction was that your post smelled like
a Troll, in fact it still does. However, on the off chance that you are
actually serious, I decided to give you a serious reply, but I'm still
waiting for the other shoe to drop. Frankly, it is one of the most absurd
requests I've read in many years.

--
Donald R. Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net

If this is not a Troll, then pigs can also fly. The Troll Store is located
at www.trolls.com. Check it out, they have some cool Troll stuff.


"Donald Newcomb" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> >At the Troll Store.
>>
>> Thank you
>> Do they have a website or do you have their phone number?
>
> He's accusing you of being a Troll. That's someone who starts absurd
> threads
> on news groups or forums just to watch the fun that ensues when people
> respond. I must admit that my first reaction was that your post smelled
> like
> a Troll, in fact it still does. However, on the off chance that you are
> actually serious, I decided to give you a serious reply, but I'm still
> waiting for the other shoe to drop. Frankly, it is one of the most absurd
> requests I've read in many years.
>
> --
> Donald R. Newcomb
> DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net
>
>

"Mij Adyaw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> If this is not a Troll, then pigs can also fly. The Troll Store is located
> at www.trolls.com. Check it out, they have some cool Troll stuff.

Well, if I were on the Troll jury, I'd vote to convict. BTW, I have a nice
little hand-carved Troll boy I picked up when I was in northern
Norway...Trolls are big business in that part of Norway.

--
Donald R. Newcomb
DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net

Marty wrote in alt.cellular

> Somewhere around Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:47:54 -0500, while reading
> alt.cellular, I think I thought I saw this post from [email protected]:
>
>>I should have said that I have 2 problems. I have arthritis and cant
>>touch the right keys easily on a cellophone. I have very bad eyes
>>too. I have a special keyboard with large letters on the keys. It
>>still takes a long time to type. Phones cant wait for me to find the
>>numbers. If i am slow they disconnect. My rotary phone is easy to use
>>with large numbers glued on that I got at the senior center. Rotary
>>phones are much easuier to use.
>
> So, are you saying that it's easier to place your finger inside a slot,
> then move the rotary dial all the way around to the stop without
> slipping, then it is to simply press a button? I'm sorry, but that's
> unbelievable. I could see if you simply needed larger numbers and
> buttons, but that's available for both home phones and cell phones;
> especially for home phones, and not expensive. Using a rotary phone is
> crazy, much harder, and makes absolutely no sense except for mechanical
> switches that are no longer necessary.
>
> An what do you mean that phones can't wait? They don't connect until
> you press the send key, so until then, they don't disconnect. My cell
> phone will wait at least a few minutes between each press; the light may
> time out, but as soon as I press the next button, it comes back on.
>
> Methinks you're just trying to get attention or yank our chains.

You know, it is hard for older people to adapt to new technology.
She has had a lifetime of using the old technology, but now she is
being made to move to a new technology that she doesn't know, and
is unsure of.
I grew up using rotary dial phones, and I understand exactly what she
is saying. While the act of dialing is harder, it is easier to find
the numbers on the dial, and then to tell if you have actually dialed the
number. Remember also, she is almost blind. She probably has the
number position on her dial memorized, while she has to look at each
number on the phone pad. Also, if her hands are shaky or unsteady it is
very hard to hit the proper number, while with a dial she can simply
put her hand on the phone to steady it, and then put her finger in the
proper hole.

--
Dick #1349
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
~Benjamin Franklin

Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com
email: [email protected]