Usnuz probably doesn't need it, but yes it is a real phone. It is designed for old people who can't deal with technology. There are two versions, there is the one with the larger buttons for dialing, or the one that we got for Fran's father. It has three buttons, well it seems they don't have that one now. But it was cool one was call, one was hang up and the other was emergency. We created a "call list" online for him. All he had to do was press "call" and say, I want to talk to "Tommie", or "Fran" and we had anyone he would want to talk to in his call list. There was an operator on duty to take the call.
Unfortunately, he couldn't even figure out how to use that phone.