Could use some suggestions - Corded Phone

Corded, yes corded.

Since somebody will probably ask, I'll tell you right now, why I want a corded phone. I have 802.11b wireless in my house, and I don't want any other 2.4ghz frequencies flying around my house. My main phones are 5.8ghz, which is expensive and hard to find.

I am looking for a corded phone for my room. Something that's a reasonable size, and kinda cool looking. It is going in a teenager's room after all. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif I'm on a tight budget too, so the lower the price, the better.

All I have seen is boring, white, plain, generic phones. Any suggestions?

Thanks. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

EDIT: I forgot to add, something with a caller ID screen is a must!

Everyone should have a corded phone. They (sometmes) work when the power is out. You can check Radio Shack, they usually have some interesting ones.
What hobbies (besides flashlights and cycling(?)) do you have? Any range on pricing? Color preference?

Here are a couple on ebay
$27.99 touch panel phone (power failure?)
$38.44 Neon Phone
Pepsi wall Phone
Radio Shack phone page

Try a flea market. Maybe you can pick an old one up with some real character. I like the idea of phones that work when the power's out. I have a 20 year old Sony that works fine during outages.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/poselectronics/markivfieldphone.html

The Mark IV Field Phone. I have one of these in my den.

I recently went looking for essentially the same type of phone (although minus the "cool" factor). My primary criteria were caller ID and had to work during a power outage, since I too use cordless phones as primaries. You will find that those two together are hard to find. I bought the following: AT&T 958 Corded Speakerphone With Call Waiting/Caller ID

Sound quality is great and I thought it was a good deal for $25.

Illy, check local office supply stores for weekly sales - like OfficeMax, Office Depot, etc. I bought a corded phone with caller id about a month ago at OfficeMax for $10.

One nice feature that I haven't seen on many phones, then again I haven't looked at many phones lately. Is called something like auto-redial. You call a number, it's busy, you hit the auto redial button and about every 15 seconds the speaker phone pops on and redials the number.