Banana-shaped phone

August 30, 2005 10:25 AM

I'm looking for a banana phone. Not the song, thanks, but a real, honest-to-goodness banana-shaped phone.

The only one I've been able to find is this one but it's $95 and that's a bit steep for a novelty phone. Are there any others around that are cheaper? I've been looking for a while and come up with bupkus.

posted by tommasz to shopping (12 comments total)

Corded or bananular?
posted by rxrfrx at 10:32 AM on August 30, 2005

Ah, I should have been more specific. Regular corded, RJ-11, though cordless would be okay.
posted by tommasz at 10:36 AM on August 30, 2005

Banana Shaped Foam Cover for a cellphone. Not exactly what you want, but related.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:48 AM on August 30, 2005

Bang & Olufsen BeoCom 2 Phone.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:51 AM on August 30, 2005

The sped up version of the banana phone song is the official song of my WoW guild. So we've spend some time going over banana phone miscellany in detail. Did you know the song has it's own Wiki?

As far as we know the phone you linked is the only model in existence.
posted by y6y6y6 at 10:57 AM on August 30, 2005

There are other models in existence, such as
this one
posted by stovenator at 2:24 PM on August 30, 2005

On looking at the underside of that phone, it is actually the same phone. D'oh!
posted by stovenator at 2:30 PM on August 30, 2005

not really a phone, but this looks like a cell phone extension, for, ya know, when you want to look like you're on a banana phone.
posted by hellbient at 2:40 PM on August 30, 2005

banana phone
I found it by googling novelty phones banana. There might be more, but this is also the one that comes up a few times if you do an image search for banana phone
posted by easternblot at 9:11 PM on August 30, 2005

Blegh, I'm blind, ignore all that.. That's the same one you found. Yeah, and the other one I've seen is the one stovenator links, which to me looks to a be a bit different, actually. There must be more banana phones!
posted by easternblot at 9:13 PM on August 30, 2005

That's what I was hoping, but I'm afraid y6y6y6 has confirmed my suspicions. It's pretty surprising, really, since it seems to be almost the perfect shape for a phone.
posted by tommasz at 5:04 AM on August 31, 2005

My sister had a red shoe novelty phone for a while, which your post reminded me of, so I looked it up and found something like it here for $45. I then noticed it was listed on "phone vault" (where you initially linked) for $125. So you may be able to find your banana for a better price, even if it's the same model.
posted by mdn at 1:17 PM on August 31, 2005