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.

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

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Wow that is really neat! I appreciate you sharing that, and I also appreciate you’ve never had a cellphone! Thanks for commenting

@ShawnStafford-1978

5 ай бұрын

​@@spencers-adventures I never heard of this device for using landline phone's this way. We have a old payphone we used for a landline home phone.

@itismezed

4 ай бұрын

@@ShawnStafford-1978it’s called an acoustic coupler. :)

@UserQuizno

2 ай бұрын

What playback resolution have you set as the default?

@jackmountain8503

6 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing so here's mine! A bit later than yours but I got to test something everyone uses today (even on cell phones), the digital camera! It was while visiting Chicago university taking pictures of their collection of preserved animal specimens. Thing was HUGH and I thought I guess its OK if you want floppy disks everywhere😅

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.

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.

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

@spencers-adventures

2 ай бұрын

That’s a great idea

@g-r-a-e-m-e-

2 ай бұрын

and with AI surely you could request the number you want, as it was, before dial phones. When I was a kid, that's exactly what it was, a phone. You picked it up, someone responded and then you gave the number you wanted to call.

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

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

They are super cool eh!

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' 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 👍

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

Very cool! I didn’t want to pay for a separate line either - this was a good happy medium. I bet it would work in the UK, hope you’re able to find one! Thanks for the comment buddy

@adamwragg4606

7 ай бұрын

@@spencers-adventures yeah it could well do, I'd have to do some research on it. No worries at all 😊

@Noworries-PU7ye

6 ай бұрын

​@@spencers-adventureswill this work with Samsung devices on anti-apple just wondering????

@ShawnStafford-1978

5 ай бұрын

​@@spencers-adventuresLoL I remember the 80's and rotary telephones. I also remember when function cellphones were a pain to text on.

We still have a landline. It's been provided by the same(-ish) company since the house was built in '66. First the Bell System, then BellSouth, then back to Bell (or now AT&T)

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

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Lol I love that. The Garfield phone is the best use case I’ve heard for the Cell2Jack!

@ambirbler

Ай бұрын

I bought the Cell2Jack for my Garfield phone! I’ve been able to talk through it (it has a humming sound in the background, a bit annoying) but the Cell2Jack works and the Garfield phone even rings!

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.

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

That sounds very cool! Glad to hear you’re aware of the Cell2Jack and enjoyed it!

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

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

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

It’s a pretty neat product for sure! Thanks for watching and for the kind words!

@krzysztofgorski9611

7 ай бұрын

Ciekawe czy będzie działać w Polsce

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

@@krzysztofgorski9611I think it very well could work. As long as you have Bluetooth on your phone it shouldn’t change from country to country. However I’m not 100% sure on that. Good luck if you try!

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.

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Very cool, sounds like a serious setup you have! I never grew up with a rotary phone so I can’t be 100% certain the functionality is exactly as it was when they were most common, but my experience will the Cell2Jack has been I’ve been able to dial using the rotary function and make and receive calls with this phone. Thanks for the comment!

@OlivierCaron

6 ай бұрын

@@spencers-adventures the fun part is the rotary dialing (although we hated it after trying touch tone at our friends' houses back in the days) and the beautiful ring, fully mechanical. If you get those two with your Cell2Jack, you've got a pretty decent experience!

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!

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

@ShawnStafford-1978

5 ай бұрын

LoL I remember growing up in the 80's with the rotary telephones. That's a awesome gadget.

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.👍

@spencers-adventures

Ай бұрын

Of course buddy! Glad you enjoyed

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

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Yeah that is for sure a dying breed! You’re very fortunate to still have that. Thanks for the comment!

@markdm5415

6 ай бұрын

That will probably not last too much longer. When it goes away they will tell you you need to upgrade to fiber or else...You will then likely lose the number on the "or else..." be warned.

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’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'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?

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like you’ve had some very good setups over the years, I’m impressed! I haven’t tried connecting the Cell2Jack to house wiring, but I want to research that now to see if anyone else has. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

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.

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

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 ?

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

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

A two way pager seems like a cool way to go!

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?

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

I have ADHD, and I think this might me out. I been wanting to read and write more, but I have found myself being distracted by my phone. This seems like it can help.

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

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 🙂

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the subscription! I’m not sure how the back end of it works, but yeah the little box it powered via an included micro USB to USB-A cable which you can use on any usb wall plug to power the device. The rotary phone gets it’s power from the Cell2Jack and if you want there is a USB-A on the Cell2Jack to charge your cellphone too. It’s a pretty cool device!

@smarmar400

6 ай бұрын

I'm also curious about the sound quality. My biggest complaint about modern cell phones is that the "phone" part of a smart device seems to be the part most neglected. Growing up in the rotary phone era and the enjoyable, crystal-clear quality of phone calls, I now loath using my smart device for phone calls because the sound quality is so poor and the device against my ear can be painful after several minutes. And don't get me started on speaker phone quality!

Does it work with a traditional answering machine?

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

I just did a quick look into that - thought I haven't tried it myself, I'm seeing reviews saying YES!

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.

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

@Diecastinator

6 ай бұрын

I've worked at rural phone companies. Did you have a party line? If so, how large? Was it like 8 parties? And if you called into a town that it kept you at a few minutes and then you'd have to call again?

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?

@spencers-adventures

4 ай бұрын

I think because it’s linked to your cell it should follow whatever settings your cell is set to, but I haven’t tested this particularly!

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

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.

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t heard whether it would work with magicjack but possibly! Very cool you have a payphone. Agreed phone booth would be so cool if it wasn’t for the cost!

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.

@caulkins69

7 ай бұрын

There is a device called Dialgizmo that converts pulse (aka rotary) dialing to DTMF touch-tone. You would connect it between the rotary phone and Cell2Jack.

@spencers-adventures

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t used the device mentioned below, but with the Cell2Jack alone you CAN dial using the rotary phone! Just pick it up and you’ll get the dial tone and then start spinning! Thanks for the comment

Thanks algorythm

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.

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.😊😊😊😊

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.

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

That’s a great story! I only know what a party line is because of the song by the Kinks!

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

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Help me - I’m in another dimension!

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.

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

It will automatically start pairing as soon as you plug it in, but if for some reason it doesn’t, you dial 0000 and it will start pairing. The audio quality is pretty good. It’s basically the cellphone quality just though whatever speaker is in the phone, so mileage may vary depending on what phone you’re using. You can tweak the settings through the desktop app to adjust for volume of mic and speaker etc. I’m happy with mine!

Where can I buy this device in Germany?

@spencers-adventures

4 ай бұрын

Not sure buddy! Does Amazon have it? Maybe direct from Cell2Jack?

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.

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.

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

I feel like this is still that cellphone quality just adjusted to rotary. I don’t have any issue with call quality, but I was more looking for it to limit my phone usage at home to a fixed area, and for that it was perfect. Thanks for the comment!

Hey Will it work with a payphone?

@spencers-adventures

2 ай бұрын

I hope so! I want to do it one day. I’d say as long as you have the right hookup it should 👍

I own one. It's more of a novelty item. The main downside is the audio quality. It's not good.

@spencers-adventures

10 күн бұрын

Yeah I find it to not be much different than my cellphones speaker. Not noticeably worse but not as good as old landline sound

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

@spencers-adventures

6 ай бұрын

Yeah we need to have that level of boundaries with our technology usage nowadays honestly. That’s a great memory!

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

@spencers-adventures

Ай бұрын

I had this happen too! If I recall correctly had to reset the Bluetooth on the cell2jack by dialling “0000” on the Cell2Jack (if a rotary phone)

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 😪

@spencers-adventures

4 ай бұрын

That’s fair, after having a pair of AirPods between my dome for the last 2 years I’m also a bit concerned about Bluetooth. At least with the Cell2Jack it’s not in your pocket or on your head! Thanks for watching and commenting!

How can you “Press #*#” on a rotary phone????

@spencers-adventures

10 күн бұрын

It’s “0000” for rotary phones, but it should automatically pair the first time at least. The first time I set it up I didn’t need to dial anything, but when I unpaired and re-paired I had to dial the code I mentioned

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

@spencers-adventures

3 ай бұрын

I don’t want people to be confused by this comment, so I will clarify that there is a way to pair this with a rotary phone. All you have to do is dial “0000” and it will pair manually, but it should automatically pair when it detects it’s a rotary phone.

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.

@BlueGreenEyedSoulSis

2 ай бұрын

I'm one of those you speak of (60 and up) and can tell you it has nothing to do with the internet, or age for that matter. It has everything to do with mindset. Since I was young I've had the attitude of learning (because I needed to) and humility (because I don't know everything). Too many of all ages above 4 or so years fear "looking stupid" and become what they fear. The best thing for our brains is NOT filling them with alot of facts to impress others, but to use knowledge to discuss ideas and therefore develop wisdom. Don't forget: Knowledge does not equal wisdom.

@Funkteon

2 ай бұрын

@@BlueGreenEyedSoulSis You literally just regurgitated the exception to the rule I described in my original comment... Please read comments properly before commenting again...

@TheLordOfNothing

19 күн бұрын

@@Funkteon Except you are making a gross generalization and you should expect dozens of exceptions.