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- you can blindly hit the keys on a dial pad if you remember their position, on a rotary you probably need to count the clicks
- on a rotary you probably can’t look back at the number you already inputed
- traditional ones won’t have * and #
- no speakerphone feature, which many older people would benefit of
- no mute
- no phone number memory/speed dial
It’s actually fun to think about how much it has changed since the earlier phones, as the land lines are progressively getting obsoleted as well.
I could imagine a modern version of the rotary UI, as a swipe input interface for instance, but it would still be clunky IMO
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- you can blindly hit the keys on a dial pad if you remember their position, on a rotary you probably need to count the clicks
- on a rotary you probably can’t look back at the number you already inputed
- traditional ones won’t have * and #
- no speakerphone feature, which many older people would benefit of
- no mute
- no phone number memory/speed dial
It’s actually fun to think about how much it has changed since the earlier phones, as the land lines are progressively getting obsoleted as well.
I could imagine a modern version of the rotary UI, as a swipe input interface for instance, but it would still be clunky IMO