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Another amazing thing about old Nokia phones is the sound when you hear another person talking. I wish they could bring "good telephone" back to these smartphones.

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Older phones (the ones designed by phone manufacturers, not computer companies) had sidetone [0], making it a lot easier to talk on the phone when it's windy. They where better phones than today's portable computers with a phone app.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidetone

HTC is actually bringing back Sidetone as an option:

http://blog.htc.com/2015/09/re-instating-the-sidetone-option...

Voice calls over VoLTE or Wi-Fi sound great. It's just a matter of carriers rolling it out (and building interoperability amongst themselves).

Facetime Voice also sounds great. (Though it only works when you're calling another iDevice.)

if i know the other person has an iPhone, i make them facetime me, using voice over my service sucks.

fuck it i don't want calling minutes anymore, just gimme data.

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