— -- Like Betty White and Buddy Holly glasses, the traditional phone handset is now retro cool. The makers of the product — complete with hand cradle, the rounded receiver and transmitter and the ...

Gone are the days of real telephones, with real handsets. It used to be that a telephone handset had real heft, and could double as a hammer in a pinch. Forget about trying to do that with cell phones ...

You can Skype in style and yap while typing. This retro phone handset rests on your shoulder for hands-free talking galore. Just like the good old landline days. But it connects to a cellphone. The ...

The Times — the Home & Garden section, of course, not Circuits — has an article about those Pokia handsets, the retrofitted old-style phones that occasionally show up for sale on eBay. More art pieces ...

Hardie is one of a growing number of parents around the country turning to landlines for their kids. Tin Can, a company launched last year that offers landline-style phones aimed at children, now has ...

Old technology is light, and I am a moth. Like the fragile lepidopteran, however, I find myself consumed by futile tasks that lead nowhere, flutturing around my heap of obsolescent junk without ever ...