It’s funny how the more we advance with our personal technologies, the more we find the need to cling to the past. I for one am guilty of that on many accounts. We normally see the juxtaposition of old with new, in architecture, fashion, industrial design and tones of other industries, but recently gaming and software have taken a reach back to the old school. You can play classic Nintendo and other system games on the Wii, turn your iPhone into a sand clock to time your boiled eggs, and now you can rock your phone like Alexander Graham Bell. Rotary styles!
Of the rotary dialer emulation apps I came across, the app Rotary Dialer takes my vote. The simple fact that it shows your number on a label made with a retro label maker got me (maybe it was the hand model). Aesthetically it is so authentic, that my fingers hurt thinking of people I know with lots of 0’s in their number.
This one I just don’t get. You have to be really lazy or are easily amused by shiny lights. It’s one thing to want the nostalgia of it and are going to enter numbers in manually, but to select a contact and just watch the dial go ’round. To each there own.
