Hulger
Hulger is a company started by this UK designer who decided that he was sick of looking at the same horrible plastic mobile phones that are everywhere and the throwaway, get a new handphone every few months mentality.
So what he did was to take old retro handsets, repaint them and rewire them a bit, so they became like mega speaker handsets that could connect to your mobile phone. So instead of walking around with a silly bluetooth contraption on your ear, or some mic dangling down your face, you've got this huge, loudly colored piece of history that looks like youre talking to someone other than yourself.
Some models even come with bluetooth and I think what's great isn't that these huge handsets are just a joke or that they challenge the boring design intent of each new phone that comes out. What's great is that there's actually a possible market for these phones that makes them more practical than you think. Adding a cable allows each handset to be connected to a computer, enabling a it to turn into a voip handset instead. I think this niche is where the phone goes from being a big bright gimmick to something beautiful and practical.
