The phone keeps what it promises: It looks great with the dial and the shade of red, but also acts somehow modern. Maturity is perhaps a good word. There are three adapter supplied (which is not self-evident), the normal TAE plug is attending. The handset is heavy in the hand and the cable can be long enough pull without pulling the phone off the table (for which the rubber feet provide). I have the phone connected directly to a router (VoIP), the power supply for the clamp, which is extremely retro, is more than adequate. The clamp was When connected to an analog telephone socket with my parents very, very quiet, rather jarring, perhaps as a hint. However, this should not be a problem, because the standard is the analog telephone line to VoIP. The dial is perhaps a little noisy when dialing, but - please - I wanted a dial and I got :).