Dial
Phones
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The 2006 remake uses handheld phones (both home and cell phones) instead of the technical impossibility of a rotary-dial phone calling itself, and is no less effective for it.
Source: Film / When a Stranger Calls -
In it, a teenager named Robby Reed finds a disk with a dial like that of a phone on it (back when phones used rotary disks).
Source: Comic Book / Dial H For Hero -
Hanging a receiver on a hook (instead of putting it unto the cradle) died even earlier that the rotary dial, except for certain wall-mounted phones, which still have a specially designed cradle, rather than an exposed hook, and maybe certain pay phones.
Source: Technology Marches On
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