{"id":8710,"date":"2005-12-12T15:49:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8710"},"modified":"2005-12-12T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T15:49:35","slug":"danglin-it-old-school-handsets-on-mobiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8710","title":{"rendered":"Danglin&#8217; it Old School: Handsets on Mobiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/oldSchool.jpg\">This apparently is not a joke. According to a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phonedaily.com\/news\/?news_id=3726\" target=\"new\">Phonedaily<\/a>, a Taiwanese phone site (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akihabaranews.com\/en\/news-10808-%22Old+school%22+headset+for+mobile+phone.html\" target=\"new\">Akihabara<\/a>), it looks as though young phone users in Japan are trying to achieve that sexy phone lineman look by attaching landline phone handsets to their cellies and then dangling the sets from their belt loops. The site also shows the handsets being customized with paint, glitter, decals, and the like. Personally, we&#8217;re waiting for those gigantic first-gen cellphones to make a comeback.<\/p>\n<p> <b><font color=\"red\">Update: <\/b><\/font> Mark blogged this on <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\" target=\"new\">Boing Boing<\/a> and a reader wrote:<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/handset.jpg\">Just the other day i came across a website that happens to sell these very items. They can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredflare.com\/customer\/product.php?productid=1699&#038;cat=367&#038;xid=8ffc2358408b01bf2576a0898c7c26c1\" target=\"new\">Fred Flare<\/a>.&#8221; $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This apparently is not a joke. According to a piece on Phonedaily, a Taiwanese phone site (via Akihabara), it looks as though young phone users in Japan are trying to achieve that sexy phone lineman look by attaching landline phone handsets to their cellies and then dangling the sets from their belt loops. The site &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8710\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Danglin&#8217; it Old School: Handsets on Mobiles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}