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

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-r...

https://qz.com/509442/why-are-we-still-calling-them-phones/

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.

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.

Plenty are. Look at the pedestrians, or that matter at the drivers. A lot of them do use headsets.

Tell that to my mom

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...

Good point - I hardly ever see anyone talking on their phones

My mom is still using her fliptop phone and have no plans of switching to new ones.

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