Crosley 302 Wall Phone (CR55-BC)
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Manufacturer: CrosleyModel: CR55-BC
Color: Brushed Chrome
Product features:
- Rotary Dial Fashion Plate
- Push Button Technology
- Flash/Redial
- Ringer Volume ON/OFF Switch
- Tone/Pulse Switch
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Customer Review: It looks good (from a distance) and works pretty well
Summary: 3 Stars
I guess I wasn't real surprised when I opened the box - it's a cheap made in China (what isn't) plastic reproduction. It is 100% plastic, except for a few minor parts. The buttons are all mounted crooked, the button in the middle is crooked, all in all not very impressive construction. I totally believe the reviews that say it broke after a few weeks or months - it feels cheap when you use it like it probably will just die one day.
However, it looks really cool as long as you don't get too close to it, and the ringer was a surprise: it is a real bell ringer just like "old" phones. Given the overall cheap quality of the phone I would have expected an electronic fake bell tone ringer, so they surpised me on this one.
The sound quality is also pretty decent - none of the static that some have mentioned.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with it, because I wanted a fun nostalgic phone, and that it is. I just wish somebody made a more substantial (i.e. metal) phone with a little attention to detail in assembly - I would be willing to pay twice the price of this phone for a quality one.
Also, if you purchase this phone, consider it a disposable item. The manufacturer's warranty says you must send it back to them postage-prepaid, and include $19.95 for return shipping. Assuming you have to go out and buy shipping materials (unless you keep the original boxes), pay for shipping plus their $19.95 fee, it will probably just cost a few dollars more to buy a new one, with a lot less time and hassle required. I'm sure they have this in mind when they charge you $19.95 for $5 worth of postage! Lousy warranty for a product that will probably fail...but it does look cool!
Update (1/26/2011): I discovered you can actually buy a refurbished original phone - the actual one that this reproduction is modeled after (Northern Electric Model 354). Just google "antique and vintage phones" and see what comes up. So the bad news is it costs 5 times as much, but the quality is way, way better. It also has a "real" dialer, not push buttons that looks like a dialer - I suppose you could view this as a positive or a negative, but I would prefer to have an old phone that actually works like an old phone.
Description of Crosley 302 Wall Phone (CR55-BC)
It features Rotary dial with push button technology ,Flash/Redial ,Ringer volume on/off switch ,Tone/Pulse switch ,Earpiece volume control ,Wall mountable ,Red finish. Overall dimensions: 9.5" H x 5" W x 4.5" D. The Crosley 302 Phone returns to the wall in this Henry Dreyfuss tribute. The Crosley 302 Wall Phone features the nostalgic rotary dial but actually functions with push button technology. No more waiting for that rotary dial to make its excruciating slow rotation.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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