- #Chatter telephone fisher price bluetooth Bluetooth#
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We don’t how how or if you can dial the plus symbol for overseas calls, but many countries let you use a special digit sequence instead.
#Chatter telephone fisher price bluetooth Bluetooth#
The Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth is elegantly simple : the device is basically a bluetooth “headset”, with the added ability to accept numeric input (plus the all-important hash/pound and star symbols) via the rotary dial. Great circle route to closest US Best Buy from the counties of Oxon and Bucks. PTP wanted one of these phones, just like you do, but their closest Best Buy is also in Maine, so they decided to ask a friend in North America to order one (even he had to wait six weeks!), and conducted their research remotely.
In fact, if you’re a techie and you hadn’t heard of this product before, we suspect you secretly want one now, because childhood memories, ultimate happy/hippie/retro look, the dial actually works, so you can actually dial calls, with an actual dial!īut you know where this is going, and you can probably guess who took it there – our chums Pen Test Partners (PTP), just down the road (or not far along the old railway line that’s currently being rebuilt) in Buckinghamshire, the next county over. ($60 at Best Buy, out of stock at our closest US store, which turns out to be 4900km away from Oxfordshire, in Bangor, Maine.) They’re not really for children, which is just as well because retro-loving adults seem to have bought them all up. The only thing that didn’t catch on in telephony, and perhaps we can all be thankful for this, is Alexander Graham Bell’s preferred telephonic greeting of “Ahoy!” – though for all we know a future generation of pirate-talking techies might revive this ancient rite.īack to the Fisher-Price “NOT A TOY” Chatter Telephone with Bluetooth. Of course, not only is it no longer a dial, it’s not even a keypad these days: it’s usually a touch screen with no actual keys or buttons at all. To this day – in fact, in this era of outsourced phone support and faraway call centres, perhaps more so than ever – we “continue to hold” even though Bluetooth headsets mean there is nothing to hold onto any more, and we still “dial” calls, although we now use a “keypad” to do so. (Originally, only the receiver could be lifted up and replaced, because the mouthpiece – the sender – was typically built into the body of the instrument itself.)Īnd we kept on putting the receiver “back on the hook” to end a call long after phones had either receivers or hooks. We carried on referring to the combined mouthpiece-and-loudspeaker component as a “receiver”, and we talked about “replacing the receiver”, long after the receiver ceased to be a separate item that contained just a loudspeaker. Sure, it looks like a Chatter Phone toy, with an external appearance that adults of all ages will recognise, perhaps from having had one, played with one, or at least seen one in the toy store all those years ago.Įven when the mobile phone age arrived, the Chatter Phone retained its dial (an actual dial-shaped dial!), its cheese-dish phone styling, and its sideways receiver.įascinatingly, “keeping it retro” has been part of telephony ever since the second generation of telephone instruments came out in the century before last. The picture you see above is not only a real Fisher-Price product, released in the second decade of the 21st century…
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