Is this telephone stylish?

[Fortis in Arduis]

http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230645008?$gallery$http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230645008alt1?$gallery$

Opinions please... :coffee:

[Tabiti]

Just a telephone, imo...

[Poltergeist]

no

[Fortis in Arduis]

Compared to this?

http://www.ces-show.com/news_images/00222_philips-cd450.jpg

[Aemma]

It just looks really odd. Maybe it's a Philippe Starck and I don't realise it but it wouldn't be my style. :confused:


This is more my thing ;)

http://i26.tinypic.com/opzfau.jpg

[Yes I know...I'm very evil :D]

[Tabiti]

Compared to this?

http://www.ces-show.com/news_images/00222_philips-cd450.jpg
This is not so special, but at least more comfortable. If you look for a "stylish" telephone look for some old models.
http://www.durbanchamber.co.za/chamber/user_data/images/tn_old_telephone.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/353753314_41c1dab493.jpg

[SuuT]

http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230645008?$gallery$http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230645008alt1?$gallery$

Opinions please... :coffee:

Pour water in the top and it doubles as a steam iron.

Ugly ugly ugly.

[Fortis in Arduis]

http://retrophones.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/232-black-1.jpg?w=450&h=337

http://retrophones.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dscf1635.jpg?w=450&h=337

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/423063840_9ec11d3c37.jpg

http://www.buygiftsatpresent.co.uk/prod-img/Scandi-phone-r.jpg

I still prefer it to all of the above.

Nothing phallic about the last one.

[Beorn]

I quite like it. I'd go for it in a red colour though. White is pretty standard and boring for telephones.

[SuuT]

I'm liking that top one in your last post, Fortis: very EEEEEEEEEEEEnglish looking. Insofar as a phone can look ethnic.

[Fortis in Arduis]

I quite like it. I'd go for it in a red colour though. White is pretty standard and boring for telephones.

Well, it is a retro corded telephone sold through the John Lewis store and here is the wikipedia entry:


The Trimphone is a British model of telephone designed in the 1960s. It was positioned as a more fashionable alternative to the standard telephones available from the GPO, the predecessor to British Telecom. The name is an acronym standing for Tone Ring Illuminator Model, referring to the then innovative electronic ringer ("warbling", as opposed to the traditional bell) and the illuminated dial. The luminous dial contained the mildly radioactive element tritium, which caused some concern about safety. At one point during the 1990s the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell was fined £5,000 by Wantage Magistrates Court for accumulating radioactive waste, having collected several thousand Trimphone luminous dials in a skip.
Although a later model featured buttons that did not light up instead of the original dial, it continued to be known as the Trimphone. Consumers were divided as to its aesthetic merits, and some models required rewiring in order to connect to the public phone network in the UK.
The Trimphone started life in 1964 as the Telephone No. 712 and was designed by Martyn Rowlands and Aaron Lewis. The Telephone No.712 featured an alphabetical as well as numerical dial whereas the Telephone No. 722 did not. The Trimphone was the first in the GPO range to use a tone caller which warbled at around 2000Hz modulated by ringing current. The volume of the ringer gradually built up over the first few cycles. There is a volume control in the base of the telephone with 'loud', 'medium' and 'soft' settings (a silent setting was achieved by slackening off a screw on the tone ringer board inside the phone).
This innovative design by Standard Telephones and Cables (STC), half the weight of the more traditional 700-type telephone, originated in 1961 when the Post Office decided it needed a luxury telephone to add to its range. Towards the end of 1963 the Post Office settled on the design by STC, and in 1964 placed a contract for 10,000 units.
Production of the new telephone commenced in 1965 by STC, and an initial quantity of 1000 was offered to customers on a selective trail basis in the London North West Telephone Area in the same year. It became available throughout the country in 1966, at extra rental cost, with a choice of three two-tone colour schemes: grey-white, grey-green and two-tone blue. The first example of the Trimphone was presented in May 1965 by the Postmaster General, Tony Benn, to a newly wed couple in Hampstead in a ceremony marking the ten millionth telephone to be installed in Britain. By 1980 there were 1.6 million Trimphones in use out of a total telephone population at that time of 27 million.
There was also some concern about the luminescent dial that glowed green in the dark. This effect came from a small glass tube of tritium gas, which gave off beta radiation and made the dial fluoresce. Although the radioactivity was equivalent only to that given off by a wristwatch it was felt wise to withdraw this facility as public concern over radioactivity grew.
Another problem with the dial version of the Trimphone was its light weight, 0.8 kg compared with 1.4 kg for the 700-type and 2.6 kg for the 300-type telephone. This led to the complaint that on slippery surfaces the telephone turned and slid whilst dialling. The fix for this was to wet the feet and the phone stuck to the table.
An improved version, the Telephone No. 722, was introduced in 1970.
The first keypad version of the Trimphone appeared in 1977 - somewhat delayed by the problem of packaging the signalling electronics into the small volume of the Trimphone. The problem was alleviated by marginally increasing the height of the case compared to the dial version. The first design of keypad Trimphone to achieve large-scale production was the SC version (Tele 766); this design incorporates relays, but does not require batteries. Subsequent designs have eased the packaging problems further by eliminating the relays and introducing transistor pulsing. An MF4 (Touch-tone) design had to await the development of an integrated circuit to replace the bulky coils and capacitors otherwise needed. This was introduced in 1979 (Tele 786).
The next incarnation of the Trimphone was the The Deltaphone.
By 1980 Trimphones had been around for some 15 years and needed revamping for the new era of competition.
The final incarnation (or rather reincarnation) of the Trimphone was a collection of alternative colour range Trimphones called the 'Snowdon Collection'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimphone

I have looked at all the latest PHILLIPS models and they look very 'aspirational' in a tacky sort of way and have too many features for me.

[Fortis in Arduis]

I'm liking that top one in your last post, Fortis: very EEEEEEEEEEEEnglish looking. Insofar as a phone can look ethnic.

http://retrophones.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/232-black-1.jpg?w=450&h=337


Classic British Bakelite Telephone. These antique telephones were the first Bakelite Telephones to be used in the UK. These vintage telephones were made of Bakelite and had a separate “Bell Set” that contained the bell. However this “Bell Set” could be mounted underneath the telephone as shown below and the telephone was then called a “combined set”. These Bakelite telephones are now regarded as iconic art deco phones in the UK.


http://retrophones.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/classic-200-series-bakelite-telephones/

[SuuT]

http://retrophones.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/232-black-1.jpg?w=450&h=337



http://retrophones.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/classic-200-series-bakelite-telephones/

:wink

[Aemma]

The green one is very funky. Its styling is nice. It looks comfortable to use.

[Fortis in Arduis]

John Lewis also sell this:

http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230419542?$gallery$


Honey I’m home! Fifties in inspiration but bang up to date technology-wise, this Dreyfuss 500 iconic phone uses the standard BT connection and push button operation for modern convenience, yet when the phone rings you’ll hear the original bell sounding – just like in those old movies – and you’ll use the authentic heavyweight handset.

http://www.johnlewis.com/230419542/Product.aspx

I like it, but it looks a bit retro-desperate, whereas the Trimphone has a certain appeal because it was the first UK telephone which tried to be stylish, when telephones were anything but stylish.

http://s7v1.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/230645009alt1?$gallery$

[Beorn]

I have looked at all the latest PHILLIPS models and they look very 'aspirational' in a tacky sort of way and have too many features for me.

When I first had my independence from the family home I did go for the phones with bells and whistles, but have found through time that all a phone needs do is ring when someone phones me and take a message when I can't answer it.

I did watch that Dragons Den the other night when they had one bloke with his new phone system to block unwanted callers. The phone basically takes a message from the caller and then phones you to ask if you want to speak to this person. You can decide whether or not without having to get all English about it.

[Fortis in Arduis]

When I first had my independence from the family home I did go for the phones with bells and whistles, but have found through time that all a phone needs do is ring when someone phones me and take a message when I can't answer it.

I did watch that Dragons Den the other night when they had one bloke with his new phone system to block unwanted callers. The phone basically takes a message from the caller and then phones you to ask if you want to speak to this person. You can decide whether or not without having to get all English about it.

Ah, but answerphones irritate me so I do not have one on my mobile or anything. If my phone is out of signal or switched off you have to text me, no answerphone, no hassle.

[Skandi]

http://retrophones.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/232-black-1.jpg?w=450&h=337


My grandmother had two of these up until 5 years ago. And they were still rented from BT

[Hweinlant]

Opinions please... :coffee:

Yes it is. Clear modern design combined with 1960's cliche. It will only fit into Nordic design interior tho'. I can see that phone in modern "summer cottage" in Finland, with sea or lake view. How fag is that. Very. Thank god I own HD.

[Treffie]

I remember my parents having one of these. :) Trimphones were standard issue for people connecting up to British Telecom in the 1970's.

[Absinthe]

"Is this telephone stylish?"

Maybe, if it was featured in Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" :D Otherwise, it is ugly.

But at least it is attached to a cord so you're not gonna be able to lose this one so easily :p :D :p

[Fortis in Arduis]

"Is this telephone stylish?"

Maybe, if it was featured in Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange" :D Otherwise, it is ugly.

But at least it is attached to a cord so you're not gonna be able to lose this one so easily :p :D :p

Yes, I am rather good at losing things. :p

[Mrs Ulf]

I'm still wondering why there are three pages of this crap.

[Fortis in Arduis]

I'm still wondering why there are three pages of this crap.

The mind boggles... ;)

[asulf]

Alo ?:D