What's the best-selling piece of personal electronics on earth? What's more popular than computers, camcorders, digital cameras or even iPods? It's the cell phone. Cell phone sales dwarf everything ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you still have a landline telephone, then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is ...

If you've been through one of the massive mobile network outages, then you've seen how it left you stranded without one of your most critical lines of access to the world for hours. If your smartphone ...

There's so much nostalgia for '90s and early 2000s culture right now. Part of that is because of the novelty of analogue forms of communication. After all, keeping up with your WhatsApp group chat, ...

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Once among the most ubiquitous pieces of technology on Earth, old school, wired-and-jacked telephones are disappearing. In 2019, only about 31% of American households still had a landline, where 97% ...

Long before the idea of hot dog-shaped iPhone cases, Otter Boxen, or even those swappable Nokia face plates, people were just as likely to express themselves with their landline phones. Growing up at ...

The Tin Can phone is a modern interpretation of the vintage landline phone that lets kids connect with friends and family without the need for a smartphone or internet access.

Looking around at the ubiquitous proliferation of wireless smartphones, it’s easy to assume that the classic wired “landline” phone on a copper loop (thank you, Alexander Graham Bell and others) is a ...