The Desk Phone Dock Turns Your iPhone Into A Landline Speakerphone

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The Desk Phone Dock Turns Your iPhone Into A Landline Speakerphone

Sometimes, I look at my iPhone and, fighting the quell of soul-sickness, remark to myself “Yeah, I guess it’s a pretty good phone, but I wish it had a cord.”

Cords, after all, are very useful things: they allow even the cheapest telephone to enjoy the dual-function of a tethered nunchuck, can be wound tight around you if you get cold and are just eminently necessary if, like me, you happen to be an auto-erotic asphyxiator trying to get through a long distance relationship.

The Desk Phone Dock for the iPhone gives your iPhone back its cord. It’s a docking station featuring two built-in speakers, a microphone, volume control, instant mute, and both USB and AC power sources. Want to call your girlfriend? Just dial her contact, pick up the ivory handset and garrote yourself with abandon as she picks up and remarks in dulcet tones, “I thought I told you never to call me again.”

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All joking aside, this is a pretty gorgeous docking station. If you want to use your iPhone like a landline when you’re at work, the Desk Phone Dock isn’t just functional, but its design is totally inkeeping with a Mac-friendly workspace.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • John

    This sort of makes sense, I have my iPhone docked occasionally whan at work, and it is a royal pain if someone actually calls, as to keep the caller private, I have to pick up the phone from the dock, then have to place it back in the sock, wait for it to synch yet again with iTunes veore it resumes playing songs.
    This look like you can just pick up the hand set and talk. Even better if it were at home, as I have VoIP configured, so again when docked it would be nice to just pick up a hadset to place a voip call, or grab a number form the contact list etc.
    I just home it comes in black too!

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Ben

    Brilliant docking station. Does it feature a usb connection to mac? can you sync it while its sitting there in the dock?

  • Sung Kim

    It’s really a timely click-on. I feel like iPhone may soon be a comfortable miniature of desk-top in hand, and the DPD(desk phone dock) looks like a prime benefactor in that trend.

  • Wclyffe

    I’m using the Kee Utility Desk Phone for iPhone right now and it is just fabulous. It’s great to be able to pickup a call on a regular handset at your desk and it’s charging at the same time. You can hit “sync” in iTunes and then grab your phone and go. Fabulous!