Home is where you hang up.
An object by the front door. You come home, you set your smartphone on it, and you stay fully reachable — on a real handset.
01 The observation
The home phone did not disappear because it was bad. It disappeared because the smartphone already did everything — including following us everywhere. What we lost along the way was not a technology. It was a boundary.
The smartphone followed families all the way to the table. It does not intrude loudly: it buzzes, you glance, you answer “two seconds”. Those two seconds, repeated every evening, became the texture of our evenings.
Boxes that lock the phone away also cut off the calls that matter. Minimalist phones ask you to change device and number. Children's landlines build a separate network. Each solves one problem by creating another.
Pick up, talk, hang up: three gestures that gave a conversation a beginning and an end. A smartphone is never hung up, only put away — and taken out again. Without an object, there is no boundary.
02 The ritual
HearthPhone asks for no discipline. It offers one gesture, in one place, at one moment, and lets the rest follow on its own.
The base waits by the door, next to the keys. You set your smartphone on it as you walk in. It is neither switched off nor confiscated: it is simply put down, in its place, until morning.
Dinner, homework, a book, a game already started. Nothing buzzes in a pocket, nothing lights up at the edge of the table. The evening takes back the shape it used to have.
When someone calls, it rings in the house. The name appears, you pick up a real handset, you talk, you hang up. Nobody was unreachable, and nobody spent the evening in front of a screen.
03 The object
Everything that matters about HearthPhone fits in your hand: a handset, a cord, a hook.
The handset is corded, and that is a decision. A cord reminds you where you are, it gives the gesture weight, and it never disappears into the sofa. Lifting answers, hanging up ends the call: nothing to learn, nothing to unlock, nothing to swipe.
The rest follows the same rule. A display that shows a name and nothing else. A twelve-key pad and a few buttons, nothing more. The device speaks in light rather than notifications: a glow is enough to say what it is doing. The house stays silent until someone calls.
04 The range
What separates the tiers is not a checklist of features: it is the scale of the home. The gesture stays exactly the same throughout.
For yourself.
The simplest configuration: one handset, one base, one place for your phone. It is the evening ritual reduced to its essentials, and the best way to find out whether the object earns its place in your home.
For two.
The same object, at the scale of a life shared by two. The base holds two phones side by side: each has its place, nobody moves the other's, and the evening starts at the same moment for both.
Details and pricing at launch.
05 The calls
The handset rings for calls to your line and for calls coming in on the household's messaging apps. One gesture, one object, for everything that asks for your voice.
Someone dials your number: it rings in the house. The same person calls you from a messaging app: it rings too. You pick up the same way, without needing to know which route the call took.
That is the whole point of leaving your smartphone by the door. Leaving it there cuts you off from nobody.
HearthPhone relays no messages. No text, no photo, no preview on the display, no badge, no vibration. Nothing that gets written crosses the house.
Your written conversations stay on your smartphone and wait for you there. You will read them when you have decided to — this is a telephone, not a second screen.
Compatibility is validated service by service as development goes on. The final list will be published at launch. Trade marks shown for reference only: they belong to their respective owners, with no affiliation or partnership with HearthPhone.
06 Our commitments
A household object stays in a home for ten years. The promises that come with it have to last just as long.
Your contacts and your calls are encrypted inside the device. No account to create, no remote service to query, nothing handed to anyone. What happens at home does not leave home: that is an architectural principle, not a checkbox.
You keep your lines and your habits: nothing to announce to the people who call you, no extra directory to maintain. And the object is yours the day you buy it — we will not put behind a monthly payment what the hardware already does.
Drawn, assembled and tested here. Swiss standards for manufacturing and data protection are not a selling point for us: they are our daily working constraints.
Something you keep, update and repair. We would rather build a device you never want to replace than one you have to replace every three years.
07 The launch
HearthPhone arrives in 2027.
Until then we will send nothing: no newsletter, no monthly progress report, no reminder. One address, one message — the one telling you the object is available.
Your data stays in Switzerland. No spam, only the launch.
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