On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Fred Cisin wrote:
That seems to
have vanished. We now have telephones that aim to do
everything.
and how well?
A classic rotary dial landline has much better sound
quality.
And offered a full-duplex audio path. The conversational experience on a
cell phone (or even a lot of IP telephony platforms) is horrid.
The original Bell Labs researchers must be turning over in their graves...
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