UK Smartphone that costs £7000

[sdowney717]

Not one of them has a dial tone, meaning they don't work.

IMO

[Bucky Ball]

That's less than a cup of bad coffee at Starbucks.

You mean they serve good coffee? Kicked out of Australia for their appalling treatment of employees, along with the fact that Australians know good coffee and that ain't it (apparently; I haven't had a coffee in over thirty years but you don't forget what a good coffee smells like).

Not one of them has a dial tone, meaning they don't work.

IMO

No idea how that relates. Thought the discussion was about the dial, not the dial tone ... blah.

Any smart phone with that price tag had better be smarter than me, and probably Stephen Hawking and Einstein.

[lisati]

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Back in the 1960s, my family had to make do without a dial on the phone, all calls went through an operator. Then some time around 1970 or 1971, the phone company started upgrading the gear, part of which was to install dials in subscriber's phones. Our family phone ended up being a locally made copy of the illustrated British model. A couple of years later, at about age 12 or 13, I managed to see inside the shiny new automatic exchange that was about to be brought into service.
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