You might have thought phone booths were dead...

[trainboy99]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/25/google-voice-phone-booth/

Funny, isnt it? Also for anybody interested in cameras: http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/04/12/kodak-brownie-revived-for-the-2012-olympics/

 

[K4driver]

phone/police booths are dead?

then what's this?

 

[trainboy99]

phone/police booths are dead?

then what's this?

Yes, more and more people are getting cell phones, at least here in the US.

 

[William0d0]

phone/police booths are dead?

then what's this?

Wow, that's exactly what I was thinking.:hehe:

 

[amigacooke]

Not quite as good as the real thing though.

 

[narrowgauge]

I think that what seems to be free now will make us pay in the future.

Consider, who laid and maintains the copper or fibre to our homes, not Google, it was our local Telco, and where do they get their money to do so, you guessed it, from our phone calls. If they start losing money due to VoIP then they have to make elsewhere, probably with increased charges to our ISPs who will promptly pass it on to us. The alternative would be to allow the street cabling to rot and make us all rely on cell phones, a more expensive alternative, especially for the high volume downloads we all take for granted.

Google's push takes advantage of something that is not free and expects some one else to pay the piper. It's wrong and shortsighted.

Peter

 

[perry_weekley]

Is it wrong to want one of those big red phone booths in my bedroom?

 

[Ronayne]

Is it wrong to want one of those big red phone booths in my bedroom?

Same here.

 

[jeffmorris]

I'm in USA and I'm not in UK. What are the black police booths for?

 

[K4driver]

I'm in USA and I'm not in UK. What are the black police booths for?

it is supposed to be blue...it is not really a Police booth, it is actually the T.A.R.D.I.S. Look it up on google for information about the T.A.R.D.I.S

 

[amigacooke]

I'm in USA and I'm not in UK. What are the black police booths for?

Evening all.

Police booths predated police personal radios and were simply phone boxes/booths for the exclusive use of the officers of the law.

 

[ColPrice2002]

And occasionally as a mini "lock-up"

Trust me, you really don't want a red phone box in your bedrrom.
Not unles you're going to reinforce the bedroom floor and the hose - they're about a ton (that's an Imperial ton 2240 lbs) weight and yopu'll need a hole in the roof/wall to get them in.

Colin

 

[amigacooke]

Trust me, you really don't want a red phone box in your bedroom.

You could have one as a bedroom perhaps