What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?

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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.

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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

  1. this is just a picture of a "telephone with a handset", not the specific thing they're talking about, and

  2. their phone has a removable "hook" that was removed and lost sometime in the past and they're seeing the slot where it went