Phones are such a useful way of communicating to someone, it is amazing to think how we survived without them.
The days have long past when the phone would be available to the general public as a one style suits all. Today telephones are available in many designs, colours and ringtones. They are even available as novelty phones too.
Novelty phones are a brighter way to talk with your friends but also using a novelty phone to make it more fun. The ringtones diverse from original telephones through the years from the 1920s passing through to the the 1950s like a diner phone. Maybe those Granny and Grandad’s may remember the finger dialling phone in sharp colours – bright reds or blue. Later the style became the Trim phone with it is distinctive shrill ringer.
As the decades passed by, the finger dialling phones were taken over by the new push button phones. These succeeded the dialling phones. Later arrived the cordless phone. These phones meant not having to actually be in the location by the phone socket. This enabled a great deal of freedom to move and chat around the home. Telephones were also wall mounted not just sat on a table top. The materials varied from wood to plastic. It became trendy to buy and own a telephone to the point that phones were being situated in many rooms of the house.
Children now own character phones alikened to their best Disney character such as Donald Duck, Mickey and Minnie Mouse or Pluto, the list is endless.
Young lads love their boy toys gadgets and really liked the Star Wars characters such as R2D2 or Darth Vader. Even Dads have got in on the act by buying a phone in the design of a golf buggy, car or Dr Who Tardis. Mums, so not to be left out have their own individual favourites too like a red stiletto shoe or a pair of red lips.
The novelty item has also found its way in other areas over the years such as novelty salt and pepper grinders of which there are numerous designs and many of them very collectable.
All these phones still have a basic use in common and that is communication, but it is now not the case that one style suits all. Everyone has a different personality and everyone likes to have something that is different from others showing their own personal design and flair.
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