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Is anyone calling anyone these days? Mobile Phones seems to mostly be used for messaging and surfing these days.

• tluyben2 8y ago
  That is what I thought as well, but on HN of all places I see people fretting about speech quality of mobile phones and networks and such. When I walk around in big cities I see people text and, especially in China, people leaving eachother voice messages via wechat.
  • dx034 8y ago
    Most people I see leaving voice messages do that by just holding the microphone towards them to be able to still use the screen (for Whatsapp you had to keep pressing the button until recently). That keeps the phone away from your head. Same goes for Skyping or using headsets.
• hajhatten 8y ago
  Tell that to my mom
  • coldtea 8y ago
    As if it's just older people? Check teenage girls -- it's not snapchat and the like all the time, they can still spend countless hours on voice calls with their friends...
• 2sk21 8y ago
  Good point - I hardly ever see anyone talking on their phones
• cafard 8y ago
  Plenty are. Look at the pedestrians, or that matter at the drivers. A lot of them do use headsets.
• misspatel1358 8y ago
  My mom is still using her fliptop phone and have no plans of switching to new ones.
• coldtea 8y ago
  While data usage has scyrocketed, voice (call time) has remained constant, or even increased over time. Data usage eats on other items (like tv and desktop use) not call time. https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/mobile-traffic-report-q1-2017 https://www.ericsson.com/en/mobility-report/mobile-traffic-r... https://qz.com/509442/why-are-we-still-calling-them-phones/ https://qz.com/509442/why-are-we-still-calling-them-phones/