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I’d love something like this that I could just dock my phone into when I get home, rather than needing a separate SIM. Especially if it had a nice receiver. Trying to actually talk on a cell phone is so much harder than it used to be when you could cradle the receiver in your shoulder.

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Trying to actually talk on a cell phone is so much harder than it used to be when you could cradle the receiver in your shoulder.

If this was tongue-in-cheek, you got me! I would never go back to holding a physical phone up to my ear after using wireless airpods or equivalent.

Ha! I feel you, but it’s not tongue in cheek. I almost never use earbuds, and I hate holding my featureless glass slab up to my ear for extended periods. I long for the days of sitting with something actually designed to be held to my ear.

Edit: it’s also part of a general desire to be more untethered from the phone. I wish I could have a classic phone + ringer experience that integrates with my smart phone, so I can just plug the phone in and forget about it once I’m home unless I get a call (for whatever reason my phone’s ringer is not loud enough to be heard throughout the house, and I feel like having something to dock it to would make it easier psychologically to not feel like I have to carry it around with me all the time).

that exists. here's one, probably not the only.

https://www.phonelabs.com/prd05.asp

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