Bluetooth Retro Handset

This phone is the pinnacle of ThinkGeek.com’s collection of cool.

I recently was given one of these as a birthday gift (April 29), and what a gift it is. Even though I’m only 20, I still enjoy those old rotary-dial phones. It was great to pull this out of the box and find it to be such a great resemblance of the original. They even did a decent job at making it weigh the same. One thing that was different, though, was that it wasn’t attached to a rotary phone!

The only thing that aggravated me was that I had to wait 6 hours before I could use it in order to give it enough time to charge, which was a problem because I was really excited to try it out.

Finally, once it had charged (via USB from my computer), I paired it with my great LG VX8300 by using the PIN 0000, and then I was ready to start chatting like it was late 1949.

This phone is great for casual use around the house. I wouldn’t consider it practical for walking around with, but if you’re looking for attention, I’m sure you’d get plenty of it from this device.

To answer and hang up, there is a small white button on the bottom of the receiver that you press. Also, by holding it, it toggles the power. I was very happy to find out that the charging port is a standard Mini-B USB connector. If you don’t have a mini-b to standard usb cable lying around, don’t worry - it gives you one for free.

I’m very happy that I received this gift from my girlfriend, Alysse. She obviously knows me very well. Now all I need is for somebody to call me so that I can use it more often. :-)

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