Enterprise desk phones are built to last a decade in a call centre. We put them to work connecting families instead.
We could tell you the phones are refurbished at the bottom of the page, in the smallest text we can legally use. We'd rather lead with it.
Every FamPhone is a used Yealink T46 — the kind of desk phone that spent five years on a desk in a law office, a clinic, or a corporate call centre before the lease was up. Not new. Not cheap. And probably the most durable object in your child's life.
These phones were engineered for years of continuous office use. A sticky-fingered four-year-old having a great day is not that. A baseball on a bad day, maybe. But the circuits? The circuits will outlast the carpet they're sitting on.
I had 80 phones and a $2,500 decision to make.
The obvious move was to flip them. A fair margin, a cleared-out basement, done.
But a used enterprise phone has something a brand-new consumer device doesn't: a decade of commercial spec underneath it. These were sourced by procurement teams who needed them to just work, every day, for years. And here they were — still working. They just needed somewhere new to belong.
So we built FamPhone around them. The honest economics: we got our costs right because we started with hardware that was already paid for by someone else. That means a lower setup cost for your family, and a phone that will outlast your expectations.
The best recycling is a long second life.
Every phone we put into a family's home is a phone that isn't being shredded for its metal. That's not the main reason we do it — we do it because the hardware is genuinely good — but it's a fact we feel fine about.
Off-lease enterprise gear has years of life in it. Most of it ends up liquidated to someone who flips it for parts. We think a child pressing a grandparent's face on a screen is a better outcome.
Nothing hidden. Everything tested.
If knowing all of that makes you feel better about what you're getting — good. That's the goal.
Questions about the hardware specifically? Ask us. We'd rather you know everything than wonder.