For this Christmas, Fisher Price is playing the card of nostalgia.

The American toy brand belonging to the Mattel group announced the release on Tuesday of a new version of the Chatter Telephone, the famous cart phone from the 1980s and 1990s.

Its design remains exactly the same but this new Chatter Telephone has an astonishing novelty: it is able to make real calls, reports

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This new version of the toy is indeed equipped with Bluetooth technology.

Give your childhood a call with the special edition Fisher-Price® Chatter Telephone ™ with Bluetooth® wireless technology.

Smartphone required.

Only at @BestBuy: https://t.co/bwi1eJo7a2 pic.twitter.com/xPi8g17NB5

- Fisher-Price® (@FisherPrice) October 19, 2021

No need for a dedicated app

The mobile phone can therefore host a call transferred from a smartphone.

The face of the toy, with its numbers like old-fashioned handsets, does not however allow a number to be dialed and will therefore remain an accessory.

Equipped with a battery guaranteeing an autonomy of 10 hours, this new Chatter Telephone can be recharged by USB cable.

The object is also equipped with a loudspeaker function allowing telephone calls to be heard outside the handset.

"A phone sufficiently" smart "to be offered without the slightest application", sums up Fisher Price with humor about its "novelty".

On the price side, if the phone-shaped toy cost next to nothing, its high-tech, connected version will be available for $ 60.

However, it is currently only available in the American brand Best Buy.

The non-functional version of the toy, also relisted, was announced for around $ 10.

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