Orange launches a participatory approach on Ulule crowdfunding platform to test the public’s interest for a phone which looks like the phones of the 1930s: neoretro wants to look like our grandparents’ bakelite phone. It’s only purpose is to phone but it includes today’s technology.
It operates with a standard phone line or an internet box.
The dialer dial is clearly digital. The main handset is wireless as well as the secondary handset which which comprises a loudspeaker.
Orange is testing the public interest for this product via Ulule platform for 30 days (ulule.com/neoretro). There are three levels of counterparties with a price of phone from 99€ to 109 € (excluding postage) and the opportunity to receive a numbered edition for the first 200 contributions. Neoretro will be produced only if it achieved its goal of 500 pre-orders.
If it is aesthetic and original, its main defect is not being able to dial the number from the wireless handset, but to have to do it from the base. The function of the round screen keyboard located at the center is not specified. We do not know if the phone has a phonebook.
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