wall phone
Hung-up telephone style
A wall phone is a telephone designed to be mounted on a wall rather than placed on a table or desk.
Before cordless and mobile phones became standard, wall phones were common in kitchens and hallways: She stretched the cord across the kitchen while talking on the wall phone.
The term now evokes a particular era of home communication.
- landlineStationary wired telephone
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- rotaryInvolving circular motion
- rotary dialCircular phone input
- dialGraduated circular indicator
dial tone · cord · kitchen · mounted · ringing · handset · coiled · bell · hang up · off the hook · busy signal · operator · directory · cradle · corded · pulse · tone · party line
- phonescellphone, smartphone, speakerphone, softphone
- telephonespayphone, handset, landline, receiver, dial
- wired telecomlandline, telegraph, fax, fax machine, modem
portability
wall phonemobile phone
Portable wireless telephone
cell phone · cordless phone · portable phone · smartphone · cellular phone
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