The Apple Pay app on an iPhone in New York. Consumers tend to spend about 10% more when they adopt mobile contactless payment methods, a researcher says. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption ...

Inspired Life This pay phone is free, but you can’t make a call. It only plays birdsongs. ‘The phone attracts a lot of attention,’ said Hatib Joof, who owns a restaurant next to the Bird ...

An old pay phone near Lafayette Elementary School in D.C.’s Chevy Chase neighborhood is now a “joke phone.” (WTOP/Dick Uliano) WTOP/Dick Uliano ( 1 /4) ...

Inspired Life Remember the pay phone? This man is bringing them back at no cost. ‘There are lots of people who can’t afford a cellphone or a phone bill,’ PhilTel co-founder Mike Dank said ...

At a pay phone in Hollywood, someone says goodbye to their best friend. At downtown’s Pershing Square, two women say goodbye to pay phones, lamenting the loss of anonymous calls.

LOS ANGELES — Alexis Wood received a notification on her phone. It was an anonymous call from a pay phone. She listened and was momentarily paralyzed. And then she couldn’t stop crying.