An office phone from your cell phone.

With this guide you can transform an old telephone in a friendly device that uses your mobile phone.

Step 1:

Material:

An old telephone.
A 1cm piece of wood larger than your cell and the thickness of 18/20 mm.
A piece of plywood the same size.
A USB extension
Two USB ports taken from an old PC.

Comments

[LAS]

NICE! Zero Radiation risk ;-)

[onemoroni1]

I like seeing instructables like this merging new with retro as I am am old duffer and don't like the cell phone culture of miniaturization and non-ergo friendly design. I may get a cell phone and do this and the retro handset. I dislike the lousy audio of cell phones and the cramps I get trying to cradle the stupid thing to my ear and the ear buds are uncomfortable. Thanks for doing this. I have one different design I would do and that is to rework the charging plug other than USB. Other than that this is terrific.

[curious youth]

nice idea ! virtually free (for me anyway) and its so professional looking. kept the box from my galaxy s1 and im just gunna use the foam recess my phone came with !

[lance_r]

Really awesome build! I gotta try this. I like the idea that my phone can be charging and I'll have another handset to answer calls.

[blkhawk]

An excellent idea. Using an old telephone as a caddy for a cel phone. Great job!

[fateit]

I have been wanting to do the same project with a Western 2500 phone as the shell, I have a handset from a 2500 that I can already plug into my cell. now I just need the casing from one, and a battery kit(so I can carry it around cord free and still charging). :)

[icsnerdics]

l'ultima cosa che immaginavo di vedere su instructables è un Sirio della Telecom! ahahahha fantastico!

nice job!

[anallie0]

beh sai comè in Italia ne avranno forniti a milioni :-)