Sangyn Rotary Landline Phones 1960s Old Style Retro Corded Telephone with Mechanical Ringer for Home Office Desk

Love this red retro rotary landline desk telephone from Sangyn. Looks identical to the old Western Electric 500 rotary telephone, with a hint to its touch tone push buttons cousin. Designed to work with modern connections, and has two important extra holes in its dial wheel. So the Sangyn can be used for everything because it has the ability to use the pound and star features of its push buttons rival.It is well built with today’s circuits, but has the feel of its beloved ancestor. Got a real bell insidethat is loud when it is ringing. Since I don’t have Ma Bell for service, I use a X-Link gateway that uses the Bluetooth of my cellular phone for its dial tone, and supplies plenty of electricity to power it.Really happy with this purchase*****

I love this phone! It’s got the nostalgic ring to it, and I can hear the person on the other end crystal clear. It was fun to teach my kids to dial it. They love making calls on it!

This brought back memories. It’s a near perfect replica of the older rotary phones. It’s light weight and comes packaged perfectly. Highly recommend

I got this model because it said you can turn off the ringer which is what I need. When I first turned the phone over to attach the wires I heard something rattling inside. I couldn't get a dial tone or answer the phone although it rang because the handset cradle buttons didn't raise up when the handset was lifted. My husband took the bottom off and found a spring was rattling around inside. I don't know if the arm the spring attached to is broken but he couldn't get the spring to stay on so he attached it to a screw nearby and then attached it to the moving arm and the phone works fine now. It sounds good, but I find the handset to be loud. The ringer is a lightweight bell sound not as deep as old phones. It's a fun retro looking phone overall.

I love it! It look like the real deal if you do not pick it up .. if not you can tell it does not weigh like the vintage ones .. the dial works .. the ring tone is like back in the old days

Love the phone and color

Easy to dial, I like the sound when I dial. Perfect for my space because it matches my coffee maker.

Beautiful looking old style rotary phone. Very light and platics-y, a bit "updated" perhaps, like dilaer returns quickly or line inserted from bottom than in back, i thought waa odd. Old rotary phones like this the dialer was slower and overall was heavier and just picking up whole phpne you could hear the chime lightly.Anyways, was excited to finally receive this but noticed something rattling inside right away. Set it up then noticed the hook switch was in a down position. It wasn't stuck but had no tension keeping it pushed up. Turned phone upside down and gravity made it come out confirming the mechanism is totally broken. As that is the essential mechanism for the phone to allow a call to connect or to hang up a vall, the phone is totally useless. It's probably the hook arm or spring mechanism that's broken.I double-checked the instructions that maybe it has to be opened and somwthong setup but nope. Instructions say to just attach everything and start making a call lol.Whar a shame, historically, old rotary phones are tough, could take a lot of "slamming the phone down" and i've never seen in all the decades one ever having a broken hook/switch mechanism. Notably, it seems real cheapily, plastic-y made.Whst a shame. Probably better off finding a used rotary phone from 30-40+ years ago, I'd bet they still work too.