A Get Smart Style Shoe Phone (gen 2)

Step 2 Get a suitable mobile phone and bluetooth headset.

Now, this shoe phone works by having a bluetooth headset in one shoe, and a mobile phone in the other. The reason for this is that when you see a mobile phone in the shoe when opened, it kind of ruins the magic of it being a shoe phone, rather than just a piece of consumer electronics wedged into a shoe.

I used a Motorola V620, since it has an external antenna. This makes it easier if you end up with a metalic lid on the heel, since a phone with an internal antenna would probably be too shielded to operate.

The V620 works fairly well, but with two annoying caveats: (1) it doesn't do bluetooth if you put a 64KB SIM in (took a while to figure that out); and (2) when on bluetooth you can't use a custom ring tone, instead it always uses the default ring tone. This was a bit disappointing, because it feels like a shoe phone should have a real telephone type ring tone. On the upside, it does voice dialing, which means you can ring out from the bluetooth shoe. Anyway, enough analysis of the V620.

As for bluetooth headsets, I used a Motorola H500, the same as I did with my first shoe phone. The H500 proved itself to be a good basis for a shoe phone.