tournedos:
I'm sure the phones will be axed the moment they don't create enough revenue.
Dunno how this applies to B&O's market coverage in general, but in Finland and I believe most of Scandinavia landline phones are disappearing fast. You can usually babble half a day over the mobile for the monthly base fee of a landline phone, and calls from and to landline numbers are much more expensive as well. Most of the remaining landlines are at offices, or with people over 65...
That's a good point and also applies here in Australia to a great degree. I abandoned a conventional PSTN landline about two years ago because of cost, in favour of VOIP - which is much cheaper and these days with a good modem/router features better sound quality than an analogue PSTN line as well.
I have two 2500's, a 1401 and a 1100 answering machine all running through VOIP. When at home I prefer using them to my iPhone because the sound quality is much better, the handsets are light and more pleasant to hold for extended conversations, and there are no batteries to run flat, or concerns about long conversations exposing me to RF radiation etc. As such, whilst I use the iphone a great deal, I still like the idea of a corded or cordless phone running off VOIP that betters a mobile for sound quality and ergonomics, and also allows me to have two separate lines.
Needless to say they also look dead smart in the room, and I greatly enjoy that as part of the appeal of owning B&O products.
Cheers
John...
No-one ever regretted buying quality.