Sangyn Retro Rotary Landline Phone 1960s Vintage Telephone Old Fashioned Corded Phones with Mechanical Ringer for Home Office Desk, Black

I love it! It look like the real deal if you do not pick it up .. if not you can tell it does not weigh like the vintage ones .. the dial works .. the ring tone is like back in the old days

Love this red retro rotary landline desk telephone from Sangyn. Looks identical to the old Western Electric 500 rotary telephone, with a hint to its touch tone push buttons cousin. Designed to work with modern connections, and has two important extra holes in its dial wheel. So the Sangyn can be used for everything because it has the ability to use the pound and star features of its push buttons rival.It is well built with today’s circuits, but has the feel of its beloved ancestor. Got a real bell insidethat is loud when it is ringing. Since I don’t have Ma Bell for service, I use a X-Link gateway that uses the Bluetooth of my cellular phone for its dial tone, and supplies plenty of electricity to power it.Really happy with this purchase*****

Love the phone and color

I like the old rotary style. But I really wanted an exact copy of the original rotary phones the way they were in the 1960's and 1970s, which this is not.1.) Recoil of the rotary dialer is somewhat as a cheap uneven snap-back as opposed to how the original dialers used to flow back gradually and evenly.2.) The # and * appear below the zero placement. So the phone feels less authentic. The "0" is in the third position near the end of the dialing sequence.3.) After dialing when in pulse mode, you hear the corresponding DTMF beep after each dialed number, which is not authentic.4.) The ringer volume "H/L" switch on the bottom of the phone is actually a ringer "on/off" switch, which is what I wanted. But it is not correctly labeled.So this phone just isn't very authentic other than how it looks. But I gave it four stars since none of the others I found on Amazon looked completely authentic either.

Easy to dial, I like the sound when I dial. Perfect for my space because it matches my coffee maker.

Works well. Using in the living room of our home. Was fun teaching our teenagers how to use it.

Adorable

Beautiful looking old style rotary phone. Very light and platics-y, a bit "updated" perhaps, like dilaer returns quickly or line inserted from bottom than in back, i thought waa odd. Old rotary phones like this the dialer was slower and overall was heavier and just picking up whole phpne you could hear the chime lightly.Anyways, was excited to finally receive this but noticed something rattling inside right away. Set it up then noticed the hook switch was in a down position. It wasn't stuck but had no tension keeping it pushed up. Turned phone upside down and gravity made it come out confirming the mechanism is totally broken. As that is the essential mechanism for the phone to allow a call to connect or to hang up a vall, the phone is totally useless. It's probably the hook arm or spring mechanism that's broken.I double-checked the instructions that maybe it has to be opened and somwthong setup but nope. Instructions say to just attach everything and start making a call lol.Whar a shame, historically, old rotary phones are tough, could take a lot of "slamming the phone down" and i've never seen in all the decades one ever having a broken hook/switch mechanism. Notably, it seems real cheapily, plastic-y made.Whst a shame. Probably better off finding a used rotary phone from 30-40+ years ago, I'd bet they still work too.