The mobile phone may be sweeping away the traditional wired phone, but that doesn’t change the fascinating history and technology of the older device. At [This Museum Is Not Obsolete] they have ...

If you miss dialing and/or slamming down the receiver, you can turn an old phone into a Bluetooth phone. If you want to revisit the old days of our pre-digital past or experience it for the first ...

Readers regularly ask a version of this question: My phone is five or seven years old or even longer in the tooth. Is it safe ...

Turn an old phone into a NAS for own storage network with a USB-powered storage drive. Learn how Android or iOS works by ...

If you still have a landline telephone, then you may be old enough to remember smelly phone booths and the rotary dial. That is one finding from a surprisingly deep trove of research on the ...

but for those of us who miss our old phones maybe there’s hope in it for something new. Meanwhile this isn’t the first re-use of an old phone we’ve seen recently.

You might have vague thoughts that you might still need your old phone or that you could sell it, but it inevitably sits and gathers dust. One idea is to recycle it. This could be by selling or ...

Setting up a new iPhone can be confusing and time consuming. Here are the best ways to transfer everything from your old phone. Jeff Carlson writes about photography and technology and is the ...

The cost of a dashcam ranges from affordable to expensive but there’s actually no need of buying a new one if you have a spare phone ... line of the airbag. Your old smartphone may not have ...

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...

More Local News “The rarity, scarcity, and the collectability of these pieces, it’s just becoming nostalgic with the 40-to-50-year-old group of consumers,” Bobby Eaton, of RR Auctions in New ...