telephones

First Ever Sketch Of Alexander Graham Bell's Telephone Concept

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/AGB-phone.jpg" />It was only 135 years ago, today, that Alexander Graham Bell was awarded his patent for the <a href="http://www.crunchg

Cheap, simple landline phone call recorder

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/phonespyear.jpg" alt="phonespyear" title="phonespyear" />If you've been looking for a way to discreetly (and in some states, illegally) r

Do you still have a landline?

A simple question: do you still have a landline telephone, or do you exclusively use a cellphone nowadays? Maybe you use both? I ask because there’s some question as to whether or not all these

trueCall: The British invention that stops nuisance phone calls

Have you heard of this trueCall device? Two Brits designed it, and what it does, or aims to do, is sit between the outside world and your landline telephone in order to weed out unwanted calls. You se

With the number of landline telephones decreasing, telecos scramble to replace lost revenue

The number of landline telephones (POTS) is on the decline in the U.S., which is bad news for the likes of AT&T and Verizon since they still depend on their landline business for much of their tot