I have noticed phones with a handset (like the one in the image) have a little cover that resembles something like a cold camera shoe under the bottom of the handset’s top speaker holder. Is there a use for it? It has a line bump in the middle, but it doesn’t go all the way from both sides, it leaves a gap. I have also seem some of them have extra space on the top of the cover, and some don’t.

  • Echo Dot
    26•7 months ago

    Right but there isn’t anything that resembles that in the image

    • Transporter Room 3
      4•7 months ago

      Nothing at all like that in the picture, literally the only thing i can think of is the charging contacts on a cordless phone? But then why not post a picture of a cordless phone.

      If it’s not “the hook” (as in “phone is off the hook”) then idk what the OP is asking…

      • 📛MavenEnglish
        2•7 months ago

        I would hazard a guess that

        1. this is just a picture of a “telephone with a handset”, not the specific thing they’re talking about, and

        2. their phone has a removable “hook” that was removed and lost sometime in the past and they’re seeing the slot where it went