{"id":176919,"date":"2020-02-18T19:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/18\/for-the-love-of-god-why\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T19:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:49:00","slug":"for-the-love-of-god-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/18\/for-the-love-of-god-why\/","title":{"rendered":"For the Love of God Why????"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LsCJFov.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/LsCJFov.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>This is what you think it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/UQd785X.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/UQd785X.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/>With ePaper on the back<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Yes, someone has actually made a <a href=\"http:\/\/justine-haupt.com\/rotarycellphone\/\">working open source rotary dial cell phone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Why a rotary cellphone? Because in a finicky, annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using phones they have no control over or understanding of, I wanted something that would be entirely mine, personal, and absolutely tactile, while also giving me an excuse for not texting.<\/p>\n<p>The point isn&#8217;t to be anachronistic. It&#8217;s to show that it&#8217;s possible to have a perfectly usable phone that goes as far from having a touchscreen as I can imagine, and which in some ways may actually be <i>more<\/i> functional. More functional how?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Real, removable antenna with an SMA connector.  Receptions is excellent, and if I really want to I could always attach a directional antenna.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">When I want a phone I don&#8217;t have to navigate through menus to get to the phone &#8220;application&#8221;. That&#8217;s bullsh%$.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">If I want to call my husband, I can do so by pressing a single dedicated physical key which is dedicated to him. No menus. The point isn&#8217;t to use the rotary dial every single time I want to make a call, which would get tiresome for daily use. The people I call most often are stored, and if I have to dial a new number or do something like set the volume, then I can use the fun and satisfying-to-use rotary dial.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nearly instantaneous, high resolution display of signal strength and battery level. No signal metering lag, and my LED bargraph gives 10 increments of resolution instead of just 4.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">The ePaper display is bistatic, meaning it doesn&#8217;t take any energy to display a fixed message.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">When I want to change something about the phone&#8217;s behavior, I just do it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">The power switch is an actual slide switch. No holding down a stupid button to make it turn off and not being sure it really is turning off or what.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">So it&#8217;s not just a show-and-tell piece&#8230; My intent is to use it as my primary phone. It fits in a pocket; It&#8217;s reasonably compact; calling the people I most often call is <i>faster<\/i> than with my old phone, and the battery lasts almost 24 hours.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>%$ mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is brilliant, or demented, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you think it is. With ePaper on the back Yes, someone has actually made a working open source rotary dial cell phone: Why a rotary cellphone? Because in a finicky, annoying, touchscreen world of hyperconnected people using phones they have no control over or understanding of, I wanted something that would be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[389,382,421],"class_list":["post-176919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-technology","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}