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Bon, il est temps pour @[email protected] et moi de reprendre le "compte-rendu" de notre séjour en France.
Aujourd'hui : les Français et les téléphones portables.

metaphorismes.com/retour-de-fr...

#France #téléphones

Retour de France - Les Télépho...

Bon, il est temps pour @Gator et moi de reprendre le "compte-rendu" de notre séjour en France.
Aujourd'hui : les Français et les téléphones portables.

https://metaphorismes.com/retour-de-france-les-telephones/

#France #téléphones

I fear one issue is that #FOSS folk (unless they have a special interest in them) generally consider #telephones uncool (in spite of these still being widely used in ordinary businesses), and many commercial #VOIP engineers themselves are now working for #SaaS companies and want to nudge small/medium businesses towards #cloud services to gain a constant revenue stream from per-user charging, so they simply aren't sharing knowledge that would cost them potential business or be useful to competitors (and all this has already been going on for 15 years, way before #AI became a thing)

OTOH it seems things like general #coding and even #retrotech might have enough training material for #LLM to give something approaching a correct answer to a prompt..

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/263449/ Test du Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 : le pliable nouvelle génération aux grandes ambitions #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #CmsCommentcamarche38881 #ControllerContent #FormatPapier #Galaxy #parallaxeinfeed #Samsung #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #Sciences #SciencesEtTechnologies #Technologies #Technology #telephones #test

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The Telephone and How to Use It 1949
Bell Telephone
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
R2025.0701.120

Model 500 desk telephones 1950s
Designed by Henry Dreyfuss (1904–72)
Western Electric
United States
plastic, metal
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
F00731, 21061, 21060, 21062; L2025.0701.081-.084

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

Millions of earlier Model 302 telephones were replaced with the 500 series due to its improved electrical and acoustic abilities. The numbers and letters on the 500 appeared on the circumference of the dial plate, making them more easily visible. Black phones predominated from 1949–53; color telephones began to emerge from 1954–57. Rotary phones reached their demise by the 1990s. Even so, the word “dial” persists when referring to making a call.

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

This is your last week to catch “Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective!”

Industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss (1904–72) designed the quintessential Western Electric’s Model 500. Development began in 1946, and the telephone debuted in 1949. The Model 500 rotary dial desk telephone remained the standard telephone for decades. In 1963, they first offered a Touch-Tone version; the star and pound buttons appeared in 1968.

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

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Payphones 1955
United States
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
R2025.0701.115

Model 23A stand-alone coin collector c. 1910
Gray Telephone Paystation Company
Hartford, CT
metal, cloth
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
20951; L2025.0701.041

50G 3-slot payphone 1920s
Gray Telephone Paystation Company
Hartford, CT
metal, cloth
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
20509; L2025.0701.042

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

This exhibition was made possible through a generous loan from the JKL Museum of Telephony; special thank you to JKL curator Remco Enthoven.

See “Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://bit.ly/GiveMeARing

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

Aww.... sweet!

#technology #telephones #phones #smartphones #geneaology #ContextAndPerspective

France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls from August 11

After a joint call by 11 consumer groups, the French parliament approved a law to impose fines on individuals or companies that make unsolicited marketing calls, which can be reported through a public website.

- https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/06/france-to-ban-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-from-august-11_6756208_7.html

#rights #privacy #telemarketing #marketing #consumers #consumer #telephone #telephones #france #eu #europe #call #calls

The premise of the glass-enclosed phone booth was the essential privacy of telephone conversations. That was destroyed by mobility. Suddenly we were all unwilling eavesdroppers, privy to conversations we never wanted to be privy to.
-- New York Times Editorial ( Dec 12, 2003)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NewYorkTimesEditorial #Privacy #Telephones

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Clouds #Iowa

Telephones Caught in Between

https://computer.rip/2026-08-02-telephone-leasing.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195819

#HackerNews #telephones #technology #communication #leasing #history

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/195025/ Ce smartphone Samsung très populaire est retiré du marché pour non conformité #anfr #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #BoxInternet #CmsCommentcamarche38585 #ControllerContent #das #FormatPapier #parallaxeinfeed #Samsung #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #Sciences #SciencesEtTechnologies #Technologies #Technology #telephones

No #telephones were hurt in the making of #Fri3dPBX

Durch's Telephon Pumpt Sich's so Schön, 1909 - H Starkloff AK

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/durch-s-telephon-pumpt-sich-s-so-sch%c3%b6n-1909-h-starkloff-ak-224474339.htm

#Telephones #Beer #Humour #Art

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/167587/ Ce menu secret améliore le Wi-Fi sur les smartphones Samsung #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #CmsCommentcamarche35265 #ControllerContent #FormatPapier #LesHistoiresDeCcm #parallaxeinfeed #Science #ScienceAndTechnology #Sciences #SciencesEtTechnologies #Technologies #Technology #telephones

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D Handset Mounting 1927
Western Electric
United States
metal, Bakelite, cloth
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
20981, L2025.0701.028

Strowger rotary dial candlestick telephone 1907
Automatic Electric Company
United States
metal, Bakelite, cloth
Collection of the JKL Museum of Telephony
11117; L2025.0701.030

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

This exhibition was made possible through a generous loan from the JKL Museum of Telephony; special thank you to JKL curator Remco Enthoven.

See “Give Me a Ring: A Telephone Retrospective” on display, post-security, in Terminal 2 and online at: https://bit.ly/GiveMeARing

#GiveMeARing #Telephones #TelephoneRetrospective

The rotary dial telephone with holes in the finger wheel did not appear until about 1904. Rotary dial service in the Bell System was uncommon until the 1920s. In another radical development, Western Electric introduced one-piece handsets in 1927, which allowed callers to have one hand free while talking. The first model used the base of their dial candlestick. By 1930, Western Electric released its more refined D Handset Mounting, the prevailing telephone of the decade.

#GiveMeARing #Telephones

The first rotary dial telephones allowed people to directly dial a telephone number without the assistance of an operator. In rotary dialing, each number on the dial is associated with a series of electrical pulses. When a caller turns the dial, it sends the pulses down the line. For instance, if one dials ‘7,’ the telephone delivers seven pulses. These pulses are then translated at an automatic telephone exchange to connect the call to the desired number.

#GiveMeARing #Telephones

C'est difficile d'arrêter ça !
Je voudrais pouvoir stopper ce genre de sms !!!
Je l'ai dit à certaines personnes, mais c'est difficile à faire comprendre à tout le monde !
ÇA M'EXASPÈRE VRAIMENT !!!!!!!

#portables #téléphones
#cell #sms #emoji 😒
#PasContent #mms
#flemmards #no
#Flemme #non
#Words #yes
#Repondre
#Ecriture
#Chiant
#shit
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I'm still searching for different options, but I found these two.

VTG Radio Shack Duofone TAD312 Dual Cassette Answering Machine Tested Working
https://www.ebay.com/itm/800005421923

Vintage Radio Shack Duofone TAD-311 Telephone Answering Machine OG Manual Box
https://www.ebay.com/itm/236835504722

You would think that the easiest thing to do would be to buy the 311, since it's new in the box. But I have heard of people buying machines like this, only to find that, because the tapes were under tention for so many decades, they didn't work! I don't mean the tapes themselves, which could easily be replaced, but the belts. So I'm nervous. I found many items on Ebay with no description as to whether they were just answering machines or ones combined with a phone, and worse, many that didn't even state the condition of the items or what was included! A few said "view pictures". Not everyone has that ability!

Could anyone advise me. Should I get one of these or do you have a better brand/model and/or listing that you could suggest?

#AnsweringMachines #Cell2Jack #DuoPhone #phones #technology #telephones

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Hello. I recently bought a Cell2Jack. This device allows someone to connect a mobile phone to a regular one via Bluetooth and use the latter for making and receiving calls. I bought it because I don't carry my mobile (iPhone SE 2022) with me and many times, when I'm outside on the deck, I don't hear it ring in the little house (the room on the deck) and I miss calls. I also hate touchscreens and trying to dial and hang up with them, which is why I use an external keyboard. I own several normal phones, but they're not available right now. The same is true of my stand-alone answering machines. I am trying to decide if I should get an ITT 2500 that I found on Ebay, or another Trimline, and just use one of them, or if I should get a phone with an answering machine attached. I have no interest in digital things. My requirements are as follows.

1. Dual cassette. It can be standard or micro, but I would prefer standard if possible. I don't want a single cassette because it has to rewind to the beginning each time to play the greeting, then fast forward to the next blank space, making the caller wait a long time before he can leave a message.
2. No endless loop recording tape. The only reason I am against this is that they are typically twenty or thirty seconds long, and if my message is shorter, it will still run the whole tape. But if a machine exists that doesn't do that, then an endless loop is fine.
3. No screen, menus, clock, etc. I don't mind if it puts indicators/time stamps on the recording, so that when I fast forward, it stops at each message. But clocks, menus, and so on won't talk and are therefore inaccessible to the blind.
3. Standard jack, not hard-wired. This one is obvious, but I had to add it because I once bought a 2500 that was and I couldn't use it.
4. (optional but strongly preferred Detachable phone cord. This makes things easier should something happen to the cord. I'm referring to the curly one that goes between the phone and receiver but also the one that plugs into the wall (or in my case, into the Cell2Jack).
5. Able to record my own greeting. I know some later AT&T phones have a pre-recorded message that can't be changed.
6. (optional) Bell ringer. This is not necessary. It's just nice to have.
7. (optional) Speaker phone. Again, this is not necessary, but it can be useful.
8. (optional) Remote. I like the idea of having a remote (I think it's called a pocket coder but could be wrong) that I can use on another phone to check and delete my messages, and I have seen an answering machine which has this.

Right now, I am considering a few Duofones, a Unisonic Corded Trimline (must get model number), and the AT&T 1506, but I am open to suggestions, particularly if you can reference one on Ebay or Etsy in good/excellent condition. I know nothing about fixing the belts, changing parts, etc. so I need something that works out of the box. I thank you in advance for any help given.
#AT&T #accessibility #analog #analogue #AnsweringMachines #blind #cassettes #Cell2Jack #CellPhones #DuoPhone #landline #MobilePhones #Panasonic #phones #technology #telephones #vintage

Good morning. ☕☕☕

30 May 2026

I remember when telephones with push‑buttons started showing up. They looked so modern, so futuristic, like something out of a science‑fiction movie. If you had one sitting on your desk, you must have been somebody — even though, at first, they didn’t really do anything the old rotary phones couldn’t do. I still wonder why we started with a dial instead of buttons in the first place. I don’t wonder long, though. It had to be whatever the technology of the time could manage.

When I was a small child living with my grandparents — my parents were off at the Great Lakes while my dad went through Navy training — I had to memorize their phone number. To this day, it still doesn’t make sense to me. It was “Sycamore 5‑2453.” Try dialing that into a phone today. There have been a few changes since then.

And isn’t it funny that after all these years, after all the technical leaps that led to the cell phones we carry in our back pockets, we still say we’re “dialing” a number? I’m sure plenty of young people don’t even know what that means. I’ve seen clips online where teenagers are handed an old rotary phone and look as confused as I’d be if someone handed me a crank‑and‑jar churn. I wouldn’t know its purpose, let alone how to use it.

Makes you wonder what the next fifty years will bring. I’m certain of one thing: nobody will be running down to the telegraph office. And someday, even cell phones will go the way of buggy whips.

“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan

“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.” — Doug Larson

“If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less.” — General Eric Shinseki

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #technology #telephones #dial

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/may/28/dumb-flip-phone

>>... he sucked up the last of his horchata and meditated on smartphone supremacy. “I sincerely believe everyone knows deep down that this is not the way to spend their one human consciousness,” he said. <<

I might be able to hold out against smartphone tyranny for longer if I can work out a way to get my old, held together with duct tape Nokia to function with Uber.

Image: Guardian Design/Getty Images

#FlipPhones #DumbPhones #Telephones #Technology #Antitech

Garfield Telephone By Tyco Ad (1978)
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#Garfield #Telephones #Advertisement #Retro #vintage

Infomigrants
Dans le Nord, le département saisit les téléphones des mineurs non accompagnés qu’il héberge
https://mcinformactions.net/dans-le-nord-le-departement-saisit-les-telephones-des-mineurs-non-accompagnes
#Manche #migrants #immigration #MNA #telephones

Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #CellPhones #kids #telephones #parenting

https://www.csmonitor.com/Arts-Culture/2026/0220/landline-phone-resurgence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into America and the World @america-and-the-world-csmonitor

Tin Can is an old-school phone inbuilt with modern safety measures

A trio of parents have created Tin Can, a landline telephone that allows children to make calls without…
#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #AU #Australia #designsforchildren #section:all #section:design #section:technology #Technology #technologyanddesign #telephones
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/591129/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/424277/ Tin Can is an old-school phone inbuilt with modern safety measures #DesignsForChildren #Éire #IE #Ireland #Mobile #section:all #section:design #section:technology #Technology #TechnologyAndDesign #telephones

Работа сопровождалась бессмысленным высокопарным текстом о центре Земли, слоистости, и неповторяющихся циклах.

Foad Alijani, “Pellicle”, 2016, mixed media ★ Iran/Netherlands ★ https://artoffice.info/kunstenaar/paadmaan-projects-foad-alijani/ #FoadAlijani #installationart #contemporarysculpture #mixedmedia #readymade #neodada #yellow #pellicle #landline #telephones #telephoneset #Iranianartists #2010s

Introducing direct dial long distance in this 1950s movie via @connections

#ATT #BellLabs #Telephones #Telephony #CommunicationsHistory

https://youtu.be/kisfjR6yO9s

Amid growing concerns about the effects of screen time on their children, some parents are reintroducing the communal simplicity of the household phone. #telephones #CellPhones #teenagers #parents

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2026/0220/landline-phone-resurgence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into START A CONVERSATION! @start-a-conversation-csmonitor

Switchboard operators, USA, 1920s

Protip: if you are connecting older #telephones (1980s/1990s) with #BritishTelecom plug to #VOIP via an #ATA (either standalone or that built into your router), beware that many RJ11 to BT socket adaptors now lack the ringing capacitor for the bell wire - some #telephone sets won't ring without it!

If you have a spare #ADSL filter this contains the capacitor and can be used to get your #phone to ring (plug it into BT socket from the ATA and telephone into the BT socket on the filter)

Very useful #TestNumbers (for #UK #IE #USA #CA and #MX ) for testing all kinds of #telephones (from your #mobilephone to #VOIP and even any remaining #landlines) - they provide the same level of tests that #Openreach and other telcos have access to, you can check if #DTMF is working well and that #codecs or poor #network conditions aren't mangling the audio..

https://thetestcall.blogspot.com/

#Culture : Même les #étudiants en #cinéma n’arrivent plus à regarder un #film jusqu’au bout.

Aux #ÉtatsUnis, les #enseignants ont de plus en plus de mal à montrer des #films à leurs #élèves, qui viennent pourtant étudier le cinéma, s’inquiète “#TheAtlantic”.

Accrocs à leurs #téléphones, incapables de se concentrer longtemps, ces #jeunes gens souffrent d’un mal qui semble toutefois affecter toute la #société.

Source : #CourrierInternational

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https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/culture-meme-les-etudiants-en-cinema-n-arrivent-plus-a-regarder-un-film-jusqu-au-bout_240058