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Smartphones are really terribly designed to be actually used as a telephone. Personally, I say good riddance. Anything that can be communicated in text, wheth
by douche 10y ago
Smartphones are really terribly designed to be actually used as a telephone.
Personally, I say good riddance. Anything that can be communicated in text, whether email, SMS or other, ought to be. That leaves very little use for telephone, which has all of the disadvantages of synchronous, face-to-face voice communication, with none of the benefits.
- majewsky 10y ago> Anything that can be communicated in text, whether email, SMS or other, ought to be. I see you never had a heated argument going on for hours that only started because people were missing your tone of voice.
- douche 10y agoEh, telephone doesn't help that much either. Video you can at least get some indications of body language, but on the whole I'd be perfectly content if I never had to make another phone call. Bad connections, constant reverb from garbage mics, people forgetting they are on mute, incomprehensible accents. None of these are problems in text communication, and the signal-to-noise ratio is higher.