Confronted with the evidence that my 900Mhz cordless phone is interfering with wifi, I have been looking into some 2.4Ghz phones. Once invoked, mine mind concluded that it really needed a bluetooth headset and adaptor for connecting to a normal desk phone. Once it got on that track, however, it proceeded to contemplate style, which is never a cheep thing. I’ve always had a fancy for retro-futuristic design, and this is no exception. Drawing cues from RoD’s Joker, and his candlestick cellphone, I began researching the possibility of integrating bluetooth into such an antique.
And, to my joy, it seems some people already had this idea, though not quite to the style or era I had intended.
Jon Preussner has a writeup on engadget in which he bluetooth-enables an 1920’s candlestick phone. A slightly less retro bluetooth handset was put on ebay. However, two-piece candlestick phones would not fit in one’s pocket well at all.
Currently, the best headset I have found include the Standard Telephone Operator’s Headset Brook-tel carries used to sell, and several places carry this stylish design. However, I have yet to find anything thinner than these (still rather bulky) “Turkish” phones.
Time for ebay to step up to the plate.
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A 900MHz phone interfering with WiFi? Odd. WiFi runs on the 2.4GHz band.
That is to say, DO NOT BUY A 2.4GHz PHONE! I have one and it goes all clicky if I use it anywhere near anything with WiFi. See if you can acquire a 5.8GHz phone instead.
It’s a 900Mhz Canopy wireless link from Motorola.