This device turns my cellphone into a ROTARY PHONE 

I'm an old-school type who still gets Internet via a land-line for my Desktop PC. I've never had a cellphone, yet I was an Alpha-tester of ARPANET in Oct 1969 when they brought a Telex machine to our High school here in Vancouver ,BC & we sent an 'e-mail' to SFU using a hand-set of a phone hooked up to an acoustic modem. Cheers

Such a cool idea! I remember talking with my best friend as a kid for hours, tied to the landline and playing with the cord.

So cool. I got it working! An old rotary i got at a yard sale years/decades ago and wanted to get a landline but too pricey. Got the cello jack working great. Dialing the rotary brought me right back to childhood and how irritating having 9’s and 0’s in number were-having to wait for the rotary to go all the way. Ha. Now I need to get the ringer working. Thanks for your walk thru at the end.

God that’s so cool!! Hope they update it so you can say “operator” instead of “hey Siri”.

I have five phone Jack's in my home that was built in 1992. Each jack is partnered to a ROTARY phone (not push-button). My oldest is from 1927, and the newest is a pre-war (WW2) Western Electric Model 302 with a metal body. I've had them all refurbished and they work perfectly. I only use my cell for texts.

I've always loved rotary phones this is such a cool product

LOVE THIS! Thanks for showing us how to connect a rotary phone to cell... love the feel of the handset and the nostalgia of the rotary dial. Can't wait to try it!

I want to buy one of these and hook my iPhone up to one of those Garfield phones. 😂 I kind of miss screwing up a long distance number on a rotary phone and slowly entering it all over again. Painful, but so worth it. I had such a great childhood in the 80s and early 90s

I' love a rotary phone! We used to have one of the new retro type ones but paying for a landline was far too expensive like you said. Not sure if we can get this in the UK but I'd be tempted, sounds very cool to me 👍

This thing looks awesome! I am definitely going to explore this option. I love your videos! Keep it up :)

I love the Cell2Jack. I had one, but I misplaced it. I'm gonna get one again. What's cool about that little device is that I can easily hook it up to one of my home PBX systems. I absolutely love getting calls on my operator console.

I’ve got a brass stick phone that worked with my landline with a modern jack. I’m excited to fire it up once again .

I turn all my notifications off, I also turn the volume off on the ringer when I'm off duty. Work once called me at 11:30pm- that was the last straw!

That is pretty cool! I have never heard of that.

loved this hehe ... i love using tech to escape tech.. i am also trying to UnPlug yet stay connected.. great vid just subscribed and cant wait to watch more here is a little story "memory" for you that you might like.. i remember being allot younger in the days of just rotary dial phones ( the days when even if your friend had a Push Button phone they were RICH hahah) -anyhow.. we used to listen to the local radio station's TOP TEN music count down and then when it was all done you could call in to with a chance to with a prize if you were the " X" caller... ( whatever number of callers they said.) and OFTEN they would say " To the FIRST CALLER who got ALL the songs right! " and we would be listening and waiting .. and what we would do ( so funny) but we would dial ALL the numbers but then before you let the last number dial through , we would put a cloths pin on the dial pad so to HOLD it until you wanted it to go through so to try and get to be the first ! haha so funny.. ( i won once !! - i won a box of Frozen Fudgsicle's " lol thanks for the vid and for helping me dial up and old but great memory!

I use a Northern Telecom Model 500 like yours on my voip line, which is not compatible with pulse dialing, so I purchased a little device called a Rotatone from a Canadian company called Old Phone Works, which dials a DTMF tone after you dial a number on the rotary dial, so you can use it on any modern line. It was very expensive though, and I needed full access to my analog telephone adapter to adjust the voltages to ensure proper operation, but once it's all running, everything works perfectly.

I've had a couple of devices like this in the past that allowed me to interface cellphones to landlines. They were a bit buggy so when I lost my last one in a flood 7 years ago, I didn't replace it. I was able to connect them into the actual phone wiring in my house, so I could just plug landline phones into the wall jacks and they would make and receive calls through my cellphones. I even had a wall mounted phone in my kitchen. Like the best of both worlds. I now have a bluetooth cordless phone system and it works pretty well. I pair the cellphones to the base station and put wireless handsets around the house so I don't have to have my cellphone with me at all times and don't have to remember where I left it when it rings. I don't want to be constantly checking my phone and this technology makes it possible. Ever tried connecting the Cell2Jack into house wiring?

This is great! Do you know if an RJ11 splitter can be used to connect 2 landline phones?

I hope there will be a chance that you'll make a tour in your house. That's exciting!

I'm lucky enough to have a good old fashion POTS line still to my house with a landline phone.

Bro, Two minds things minds thinks like one I have had this idea for a long time as well. Thank you for making this video.👍

I bought this for my 86-year-old mom so she can use her AT+T cordless phones. Sound is good, she has no problems using her phones.

Awesome video and device. How was the sound quality? Was a power supply included? I'm curious how it steps up to 90 volts for the ringer. Subscribed 🙂

With your phone connected via Bluetooth, does that eat up battery as its constantly feeding connection especially on long periods when you’re at home?

So can you connect it to an empty wall outlet so that all your phones around your home hooked up to wall around the house will ring ?

Will it work with burner apps aka VOIP such as Text Free, Text Now or even Google Voice?

whaaaat!!!!! This is amazing! If anyone i actually cared about called me i'd be all over this.😅

Great video👍 As a youngster I couldn't wait to get a cordless phone then my first cell phone. Now that I'm approaching retirement age I want the old school ways back. 🤷‍♂GO FIGURE

Using tech to balance out other tech, all while being conscious of the effects on the user and how they live... Have you read Marshall McLuhan or Neil Postman? The media ecologists have been trying to talk about this since the 60's. It's insane to me they're barely mentioned today, even though it's more important now than ever. Just found your channel, saw a couple videos already, got subscribed. Thanks!

great video, would this work with magicjack? Fyi I just bought a remodel of a payphone that works with my magicjack. I also bought 2 vintage phonebooks, I too would love a phone booth but the cost.

Is this only useful for when you get calls directly to your phone, or does it also work when someone called you through a messaging app? Cause in my country nobody calls you straight to your cell.

My bare-bones landline service from AT&T had increased to almost $50 a month. Before I dropped it. I remember party lines.

I got a two-way pager instead, but that could be fun too.

Will it work to my answering machine. I like screen my calls by hearing who is calling. The answering machine tells me the number or the name if the number in in the answering directory. I still keep a cell baseline that connects to my answering machine. Giving me two lines. Yet I'd like maybe go down to one line. Yet I don't want to get rid of my trusty answering machine. It does have a cordless phone on it as well.

Does it work with a traditional answering machine?

I have had this device for 5 years but it does not accept pulse dialing for me. I disconnected the landline in 2017, but have 14 phones wired around my house with a pay phone in my front yard. I use Magicjack, Ooma, Google Voice, I use an old cell phone with this to run Google Voice.

Are you able to dial from the rotary phone? I had the same setup a while back but couldn't dial from it unless I was on my smart phone.

Guys, this is literally the FUTURE. People literally dreamt of this stuff

Can this be programmed to ring both the cellphone and the landline phone at the same time? Are there settings thst can be changed so that when two cellphones are present, it auto connects to one that has priority? Are there settings to where each connected device has its own ring settings? Hopefully someone can help me because I'm unable to find this info online.

How did you pair it without # nor * on rotary phone dial? Whats the audio quality? I need a break from technology and i love our good ol soviet rotary phones so much.

Daym, I would love one of these. The problem with this for me would be that it would ring when I’m working at the computer when I’m deep into my work and don’t want to get disturbed. Is there a work around for this? Like set the phone to ring after let’s say 4pm?

In 1985 in rural towns the phone company said they would NEVER have touch tone phones for us

it says *#* to set it up but what if you don’t have # * on the telephone?

Old man still stock in the early 70 ,man wake up up up man ,,,

Yeah we actually lived out of town in the 80s and had a landline called a Party Line. Each household had their own phone number BUT, anyone down the street could pick up the phone at their house and hear our conversations! Super weird. Id be on the phone talking to a friend and old man Johnson lol or someone else would pick up the phone and start dialing 😂. We'd have to say sorry but im on the phone I will be off shortly.

How would you pair it with a rotary phone if there’s no * or #

I have a landline in every room in my house, and I don't own a cell phone. It's so much easier and cheaper.

Thanks algorythm

Hmm. Could have been cool for my grandma, but i wish they had a headset 3.5 mm jack version because we all know that bluetooth call quality is horrible and never works with people talking at the same time. (Especially if one person is on speaker) full wired version of this might actually be useful.

Where can I buy this device in Germany?

Hey Will it work with a payphone?

I’m 21 Gen Z I prefer old school technology like the Atari 2600, GameBoy, recently gotten a custom record because I make music. I always hated fanboys from modern technology like Android and IOS not mentioning the new technology doesn’t have schematics when I program things.😊😊😊😊 Thank You for the video maybe I’m an old soul. I also prefer to write in cursed writing and draw from sketch.😊😊😊😊

It took a long time to dial And the phone was a VERY SERIOUS tool You didn't have it ring after 7pm If the phone rang at 9pm you knew it was really bad

I’ve wanted to do this for years, but am too paranoid to add another Bluetooth device running constantly esp after the 2015 appeal to the WHO by +200 scientists. Maybe I’m being overly cautious but idk 😪

My iPhone doesn’t connect but my light phone 2 does. Whyyyyy

The instructions for pairing say press #*# to link.....guess what folks...there is no such marking on a dial phone. Sorry

I don't suffer from my attention being grabbed by my smartphone. My phone sits like a little brick next to my PC monitor.

Whilst I agree that we need to somewhat disconnect from the digital devices in our pockets etc, as an educator of a wide variety of age groups, I can tell you right now that the reason so many of the Boomer generation and their Silent Generation parents have below average (sub-100) IQ's is because they grew up in a world that kept them in this VERY very tightly controlled technology and news bubble. The vast majority of people over the age of 60 today have never been able to speak candidly with any level of intellectual authority on topics such as local politics, the environment, science or maths or basic socioeconomic matters. Save for a few exceptions to the rule where you find a brilliantly interesting and clever old-timer, most of their peers have never been able to keep up with them in the slightest... What I can also tell you is that the mainstream media would LOVE to see a world where the proletariat become disconnected from technology and just talk among themselves based on heresay, as that is the world they know EXACTLY how to control, as it's the world they once flawlessly controlled before the advent of the internet.