Is Telephony Dead?

[Liar]

The telephone is a handheld computer that among other things allow you to make phone calls. In a technically outmoded and bandwidth ineffeicient way.

I do most of my voice talk away from my phone.

U even Skype bro?

 

[Hypoxia]

The telephone is a handheld computer that among other things allow you to make phone calls. In a technically outmoded and bandwidth ineffeicient way.

You'll be an early adopter of neural implants, then.

Get a decorative one, like a dragon.

Let's not be L7.

EDIT: This is my LIT post #6800. I should have liked that processor but I never did. Maybe because it was in the first Apples. I have always despised Apple.

 

[Que]

The telephone is a handheld computer that among other things allow you to make phone calls. In a technically outmoded and bandwidth ineffeicient way.

I do most of my voice talk away from my phone.

U even Skype bro?

Smart-phones I have had all have horrible sound quality for actual phone calls compared to early digital cell phones.

Telephony seems an engineering afterthought.

 

[Liar]

Smart-phones I have had all have horrible sound quality for actual phone calls compared to early digital cell phones.

Telephony seems an engineering afterthought.

Calls on older NMT and GSM phones used up comparatively lots of bandwith per unit. Sounded good for talking, but that was easy when that's all they did. However, the sheer volume of them in use after a while made the old systems overloaded and the airwaves crowded. From 3G and on they switched to package based calling. Like on the Interwebz.

Still, my current phone has probably the best voice quality for calls of any that I've ever had.

 

[Lancecastor]

Voice over copper wire is full duplex, whereas digital calls, not so much.

Nothing beats POTS for a voice call.

 

[Liar]

Voice over copper wire is full duplex, whereas digital calls, not so much.

Nothing beats POTS for a voice call.

I'll bet you're a vinyl hipster.

 

[Lancecastor]

I'll bet you're a vinyl hipster.

Nope; digital music is more real and has better bass response than vinyl.

Better quality just like POTS is better quality.

 

[Miasorrow]

No, telephony is not dead. It just got very expensive. And those who realized their profit margins were narrowing, came up with other cheaper ways for us to communicate, ways we would accept easier cause they are more direct and less expensive.

 

[Saint Peter]

Nope; digital music is more real and has better bass response than vinyl.

Better quality just like POTS is better quality.

LPs sound good on good systems. Gear makes all the difference.

Me? I like digital.

 

[Jennifer]

LPs sound good on good systems. Gear makes all the difference.

Me? I like digital.

How many do you like at one time?

 

[Saint Peter]

How many do you like at one time?

0 or 1 at a time.

 

[Jovenes_Latina]

It seems to me that most of us communicate primarily by text/email and a voice call comes somewhere after that.

I think its just evolution of the times. I think certain terms are getting phased out slowly do to progressing trends and other things.

 

[Jennifer]

0 or 1 at a time.

Pussy. Stop being so binary.