> * 20-Memory Speed-Dial phone, $29.95.

> Yes, a clear win for replacement.

Not that clear unless augmented with wireless earbuds: I would much rather spend an hour talking on a traditionally-shaped phone handset (not quite the one in the picture) than on a mobile phone (even a pre-iPhone candybar one, though holding a glass slab to your cheek for prolonged periods of time is particularly unpleasant). Of course, hour-long personal telephone calls are not really a thing anymore for most people, but I don’t know in which direction the causation points there.

I presumed both included a speakerphone tbh.

1 hour phone calls for me are about as common as they always have been