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.
Lots of people in this thread answering the question but they’re kind of just guessing what you’re talking about.
Perhaps you could circle the bit in question because it’s either a holder for the headset or a way to mount the entire device onto a wall or something else depending on if we’ve interpreted your words correctly.
Why would you attach an image that does not show what you are referring to?
English is not my first language and I don’t understand what camera shoe mean. But I think I know what you’re asking for. That phones can be mounted on a wall and what you’re asking for is there so the handset doesn’t fall off.
Native English speaker here, I don’t have a clue what a “cold camera shoe” means either…
Hello, fellow null
This is the camera shoe for a Sony DSLR
Edit: note that this is a “hot” shoe because it has contacts that can power accessories. A cold shoe is just a mount. You can use to to attach a flash or a microphone for example
Holy shit I’m old
The intersection of people who aren’t five figures into photography and know what a hot shoe is, and people who recognize a wall mount phone trend old.
Not sure if this is what you’re describing, but phones like the one you pictured have a reversible tab for use if you mount the phone to a wall - if the tab is sticking up, it keeps the receiver from falling off the cradle.
Here’s a site selling them, but it has a diagram showing where it’s located:
https://www.zcover.com/store/catalog/zCProduct.php?wp=WP_CI881CTR&zPath=212-213-255
It holds the receiver in place. Generally the ridged end is used for wall hanging installs, the flat end stores it away until needed since the desk is horizontal.
What in the world is a cold camera shoe?
Its a non-powered version of a hot shoe, both of which are the thing you use to mount an external flash that’s on the top of a lot of (all?) full sized cameras.
If you’re talking about this thing, it serves two purposes. It is the hook that opens and closes the line (hangs up and picks up the phone), and it is used by this thing
to keep the handset from falling off the base when it’s mounted on a wall.
Or maybe you meant this thing. Yeah, it keeps the handset in when the base is mounted vertical. You can see that it’s slanted in the back.
That’s so it slides in and out on this other slanted lip on the handset instead of getting caught on it. You can take the handset off just by pulling it directly away from the wall.
could had posted a picture of a horse it would be just as helpful but a lot funnier
Are you talking about the attachment point for a shoulder rest?
What the heck is a camera shoe?
The “hot shoe” is the mount for a flash or other accessories on a camera https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Canon_350D_Hot_Shoe.jpg
Okay what’s a “cold camara hot shoe” then?
The “shoe” is the mount. “Hot” means powered, for things like flashes. “Cold” means unpowered, for things like tripods.
Right but there isn’t anything that resembles that in the image
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…
I would hazard a guess that
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this is just a picture of a “telephone with a handset”, not the specific thing they’re talking about, and
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their phone has a removable “hook” that was removed and lost sometime in the past and they’re seeing the slot where it went
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It’s for a hook to keep the handset on when the phone is mounted flat on a wall. It can usually be slid/folded down or removed when its not need.
You probably grew up in the age of rotary phones too, hu? The last one I used was only … uh… 35 years ago, I think.
I’m pretty old and even have a camera that uses these things, and took a class on photography; never heard them called a shoe until reading this thread. 🤷🏻♂️
