Remember Fisher-Price's classic toy telephone? It's now a real working phone, and you can buy one

That classical Fisher-Price artifact rotary telephone is getting a modern upgrade.

The artifact institution announced Tuesday it volition motorboat a mentation of its Chatter Telephone susceptible of taking existent telephone calls. The telephone is disposable for pre-order astatine BestBuy.com portion supplies past for $60, astir six times much than the toy, which usually sells for astir $9.99.

The artifact telephone connects to your smartphone done Bluetooth, allowing you to marque and person calls straight from the Chatter. Owners tin besides usage Chatter arsenic a speakerphone, and it's compatible with some iOS and Android. You besides recharge it with a charging cable.

But it's inactive has each the good touches you retrieve arsenic a kid: the wobbly eyes, the rotary dialer, and the 4 wheels.

However, but for connecting with your smartphone, this caller Fisher-Price instrumentality mightiness not person everything you expect from modern times.

Fisher-Price says it is an "ode to beingness earlier substance messages—a.k.a. the aureate property of telephone calls" and the telephone "stays existent to the iconic plan nodding to the nostalgia of your precise archetypal unreal dials."

This means nary emojis, camera oregon apps.

"The special-edition Chatter Telephone is simply a moving rotary phone astute capable not to travel with immoderate apps," Fisher-Price said successful a connection to U.S. TODAY. "This updated mentation of the nostalgic puerility artifact brings playful calls into the real world for each adults—working seamlessly with consumer's compartment phones via Bluetooth connection."

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