Urzela, a Boeing 929 hydrofoil aka "Jetfoil" caught south of Lantau Island while I was on the way from Zhuhai to Hong Kong (China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon side).

The Zhuhai - Hong Kong ferry I was on was the biggest and fastest of the fleet, doing about 35 knots (65 km/h) at that moment, according to my GPS handset.

That hydrofoil (coming from Macau also going to Hong Kong, Macau Ferry Terminal, Sheung Wan, HK island side) was passing us doing about 45 knots (84 km/h).

This speed difference and the fact that most of the boats from Macau went to Hong Kong Island instead of Kowloon was one of the reasons I frequently took the boats from Macau instead of Zhuhai (where I actually lived at that time), because my HK office was in Central on HK Island.

Quite obviously yet another "reactivated" archive shot, this one from 2007.

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"Look at this, Paddington! What is this machine?" Asked Matilda

Paddington was happy to explain: "It is a rotary dial telephone, Matilda. In the past, people used it to call each other, using similar phones.

You had to pick up the handset, put it to your ear, and use your other hand to dial the numbers on the dial. "

Matilda looked at the phone from all sides, She even climbed up to get a better look at the handset.

And then she asked: "I understood everything. But how could one put this phone in the pocket?"

It's the bottom three buttons on a vintage, 12-button Touch-Tone telephone, along with the earpiece end of the handset. Yes, it still works; I have it on my desk in my office. :-)

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Our Daily Challenge: "Starts With The Letter P" (push buttons & phone)

HMM

The old fashioned way of waiting to speak to someone on the phone... put the handset on the table... shout for who is ever wanting.... and wait for them to get to the phone. How quaint.

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned" - Oscar Wilde

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Wikipedia: This is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed "The Walkie-Talkie" because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a two-way radio handset. Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three-floor "sky garden" was opened in January 2015. The 38-storey building is 160 m tall. The Sky Garden is on the top two floors and is open to the public

Urzela, a Boeing 929 hydrofoil aka "Jetfoil" caught south of Lantau Island while I was on the way from Zhuhai to Hong Kong (China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon side).

The Zhuhai - Hong Kong ferry I was on was the biggest and fastest of the fleet, doing about 35 knots (65 km/h) at that moment, according to my GPS handset.

That hydrofoil (coming from Macau also going to Hong Kong, Macau Ferry Terminal, Sheung Wan, HK island side) was passing us doing about 45 knots (84 km/h).

This speed difference and the fact that most of the boats from Macau went to Hong Kong Island instead of Kowloon was one of the reasons I frequently took the boats from Macau instead of Zhuhai (where I actually lived at that time), because my HK office was in Central on HK Island.

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This is the dialer of my Lineman's handset. The frame is just under three inches. I have my digital one with buttons and memory. it may also be an anachronism. HMM!

This is from the handset of an old Western Electric landline telephone.

A CN Cowl leads UP Train MWTKC 04 past ASB Jct. on Main Track 2 of the UP KC Metro Sub., nearing its destination of Neff Yard.

Directly over the 2444 is a radio mic handset that's been hanging off the power line for over a decade now.

Locomotives: CN 2444, CN 5650, UP 2273, UP 5178

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Technology from when things were built to last... 1952 and still in daily use. 👍

Update August 2025: The UK are "phasing out" the traditional "copper based" landlines, replacing them all with VoIP. So I'm now pleased to report that this 1952 piece of hardware... flies on the new fangled VoIP, without any issues.

Walkie-Talkie building, 20 Fenchurch St, London

Wikipedia: This is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed "The Walkie-Talkie" because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a two-way radio handset. Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three-floor "sky garden" was opened in January 2015. The 38-storey building is 160 m tall. The Sky Garden is on the top two floors and is open to the public

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theme: Numbers and Letters

1930's Belgium rotary dial telephone set.

20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed "The Walkie-Talkie" because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a walkie-talkie handset.Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the three-floor "sky garden" was opened in January 2015.[5] The 38-storey building is 160 m (525 ft) tall. Since July 2017, the building has been owned by Lee Kum Kee Groups.

Bottom of a handset

Explored on July 10, 2017

It's retro, man! Way-back-when, telephones actually used to be plugged into the wall and the handset was attached to the base. The cable used to look just like this ;-)

This one still has a working telephone although judging by the large cobwebs around the handset it doesn’t get much use.

Photo © Jez

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The Ericofon is a one-piece plastic telephone created by the Ericsson Company of Sweden and marketed through the second half of the 20th century. It was the first commercially marketed telephone to incorporate the dial and handset into a single unit. Because of its styling and its influence on future telephone design, the Ericofon is considered one of the most significant industrial designs of the 20th century by Phaidon. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In Sweden, the Ericofon is known as the cobra telephone for its resemblance to a coiled snake.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericofon

It's a bit overdue but the approperiate respect must be paid. I would have loved to do this through a light stencil with a star trail but time and weaher permitting I had to settle with this.

I love Apple and not for the whole Iphone, Ipod culture, i've only purchased an Iphone a year ago and it was a second hand 2G handset, and I own a basic shuffle. I own two apple macs, a G5 that I have had for over 5 years now, and i'm on my second macbook. These things make my photography so much easier, all my buddies use PC's and they always die because they can't handle photoshop, so thanks to mac i've had a stress free editing life.

I've seen a lot of people attacking Steve Jobs since his death and it's not on really is it? He was a person who died of cancer, you wouldn't wish that on anyone so it's not really cool to be slagging someone off just because the co founded a company.

If anyone is offended by this i'm sorry, but we all pay our respects in our own ways, and this is mine.

Thanks Steve, and Apple.

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Hera held out her cellphone to indicate what she meant.

Hera: Yes signal. -On my phone. (She emphasized the last word since this old lady seemed a bit soft in the attic.)

Ruth: Oh! Eh... so you brought your phone with you... just the handset I see.. (she must be traumatized poor dear)

Mr. Jenkins: Hello in there! Glen*? You there? Answer me.

Hera: Seriously? You never seen a cellphone before?

Ruth: A what-phone? Dearie, perhaps you should sit down. You're not making sense.

Hera: I'm not making sense?

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*Glen is the leader of Cooperstown's squirrels and Mr. Jenkins nemesis.

This phone was in the basement, in the corner of dads workbench. As a kid, I'd play with the buttons (under the handset) and sometimes I'd get an operator!! lol.. Fun memories.

This was our 2nd line - just for listening, since there is no dial! Back then, we had only one phone that the phone company knew about. You had to tell them back then!! This one was a secret! Shhhhh. ;-))

All those speckles on the phone are from dads past painting projects. I left the dirt as-is. He never cleaned it. lol..

LTH7, testing my camera with my bluetooth handset

Section of a shower handset, made from some form of ceramic. It had, until last week, been in use since the early 1970s.

We had one of these when I was a child. Our ring was one long and one short. There were 6 or 7 people on our party line and each one had a different ring.

You could listen to the conversations of the others on your line and some women were bad about doing that. :-)

One of my contacts has posted a photo of a pay phone with a dial but a handset like this. You can see it in comments.

Two handsets dangle and sway in the cold wind from a pair of forgotten payphones in the middle of a retired landfill in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. They really picked some odd places to put these things.

....into the '70s with a futuristic design, courtesy of the British Post Office

All the old methods of communication, there is a signpost, the village notice board, post box and a telephone box (although there is no telephone handset).

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