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by pinjiz 3877 days ago
> The mobile phone with the number +49 174 276 6483 On display in a vitrine in the exhibition Global Control and Censorship at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, October 4, 2015 – May 1, 2016

> It's turned on and connected to the network. No-one (human) will pick up if you decide to make the call.

http://hop3.de/mobiltelefon_en.html

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Pity that they don't have a kind of webcam so that we can see how many calls happened up to now.
I'll be going to ZKM next week. From the photo ( http://hop3.de/mobiltelefon_en.html ) it seems like the phone displays the number of missed calls. I'll let you know what it says.
As anotheryou said, the phone is sadly limited to displaying double-digit numbers of missed calls. It did ring every couple of minutes though while we were there. We were playing with the idea of calling the people back (like any phone it shows the caller's number unless the caller chooses to prevent that) but in the end we didn't.

Photo: https://i.imgur.com/zBaVFMH.jpg ("99 missed calls")

It sadly maxed out at 99 calls, it's an old brick-style phone.