Ericsson Dialog

Ericsson Dialog is a Swedish telephone model by Ericsson, released 1964. Millions of the model were sold and it retained its place in homes well into the 1990s. The Ericsson company presented King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with a unique handmade Dialog telephone on his 40th birthday.

In the early 1960s the Swedish design company Acking, Olsson & Silow (AOS) received the most massive assignment of its history: the phone company Ericsson hired AOS to design Dialog, a new standard telephone that was to apply high end technology and reach international markets. Dialog attained great popularity and maintained its place within homes up until the 1990s. This design classic has become an object of desire amongst collectors and telephone enthusiasts. New technology and the increased liberties in form resulted in the end of the era of number disc telephones. Dialog's 1972 version equipped with buttons in place of the number disc never became as popular as its predecessor.

The Norgwegian telephone 11AB22 introduced by Elektrisk Bureau in 1967 used the same shell as Dialog, but had completely different electronics. The 11AB22 was the worlds first transistorized telephone, and unlike the Ericsson Dialog used an electronic ringer instead of bells, and was equipped with a dynamic microphone.