At its heart, the phone is based on a custom ATmega2560v mainboard, Adafruit Fona 3G cellular equipment and a rotary dial from a Western Electric Trimline phone, all stuffed into a 3D-printed casing.

Skilled maker Justine Haupt has created a fantastically unique mobile phone complete with the paper display and rotary dial. The mobile phone is open source and all the design files including Arduino ...

The smartphone changed the world, but it wasn’t all for the better. Mobile devices are packed full of endless productivity-killing distractions, and the ability to actually make a phone call almost ...

If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re the family IT department. We do what we can to help them, but there’s just no changing the fact that smartphones are difficult to operate with ...

Welcome to the Bored Programmer series, where we celebrate wonderfully useless inventions produced by great minds burdened by the bliss of boredom. You’ve never seen a rotary phone like that. A ...

WASHINGTON — A space engineer is so against smartphones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do it, too.

UPTON, N.Y. (TEGNA) — A space engineer is so against smart phones, she designed and built her own, functioning cell phone with an old-fashioned rotary dial. And now, she's showing the public how to do ...