Orange today unveiled neoretro, he presents as “the most successful and most aesthetic ever designed phones” . While one might expect a multifunction telephone art, the unit “does proposes a single service” , as shown in the promotional video, “the one call “.
” back to the future of the fixed telephone “ that is supposed to embody the neoretro, Orange designers revisited the codes 1930 and were coupled with a contemporary experience. The operator is even talk of “retro-experience ‘.
We thus find the spirit of the dial, but with tactile keys, instead of the iconic rotating disc Graham Bell used the first phones to the famous Socotel S63 distributed by France Telecom. Orange’s designers have also renewed the historical form of the main handset, but especially the secondary headset.
They have them both wireless rendered, and took the opportunity to integrate witness status LEDs, LCD volume control or a control screen color concentric digital dial, which serves in particular to display the number or name of the caller and the call duration.
Most importantly, the secondary earpiece includes a microphone, allowing it to serve as a combined full, and even proximity sensors that enable it to detect whether it is in contact with the ear or when installed, and in this where to go on a speakerphone hands-free.
“We have not reinvented the phone, but we have created a new telephony experience,” finds the promotional video. In fact the aspect that Orange has the most work for its neoretro is undeniably that of marketing. For it is certainly a landline success in terms of neo-retro, but ultimately it’s never worked in a phone design.
For his tendency character but certainly prudent, Orange will initially commercialize neoretro his time through the crowdfunding platform Ulule, and start production until 500 preorders. The first 200 copies are numbered and are sold 100 euros, following 200 are not numbered but are still sold 100 euros, the following are sold 110 euros. Deliveries would start than in Q1 2016, in more or less six months! It will then go on sale in stores at a retail price of 140 euros.
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