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create implication rotary_phone (166) -> landline_phone (926)
create implication cordless_phone (48) -> landline_phone (926)

Reason: Building off of Furrypickle's BUR in topic #38093

Both rotary phones and cordless phones are landline based phones. The only issues I can see is if somehow someone confuses a cordless phone and cellphone (easily fixed), or if there happens to be some weird, retro sci-fi "rotary cellphone".

kora_viridian said:
You can get a box that has a cell phone radio in it, but no display, keypad, or touch screen. It has a jack on the side you plug a landline phone into. The box gives the landline phone a dial tone, and you use the dial or keypad on the landline phone to dial out. If someone calls you, the box makes the landline phone ring. Nokia's "Premicell" was one brand of this box, several years ago.

There are two main uses that I know of: 1) People that are more familiar with operating a landline phone, and don't want to carry, charge, or climb the learning curve of a cell phone. 2) People that live in rural areas with poor cell service. I have been to a house in a rural area where cell phones (any carrier) only worked on the 3rd floor, due to low signal. A box like that can be put on the top floor or in the attic and wired to landline phones in the rest of the house, so you don't have to go upstairs to make a call.

People have also taken boxes like that apart and built them into the base of an old Bell System or Post Office rotary phone, so they can carry a "retro" phone around and actually make and get calls.

I don't think there are any images with either thing on e621, though. :D

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They're edge cases, but I felt the need to bring them up, just on the off chance someone wanted to argue against the BUR. After tagging several hundred (or thousand?) phone posts I can safely say that they don't exist.