Yackity Yack

NJRVer wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread. I agree that it was terribly rude and I don't do that.

Actually, I can't think of anything to say on a phone for that long. I have a hard time keeping up a conversation in person for that long.

That being said when on a cell phone I do talk LOUD. It encourages the other person to talk loud also and I can't hear on cell phones. I'm not sure if it's the small ear piece or the fact that the sound is digital. I have the volume on my cell phone turned all the way up and I still have a hard time hearing it unless I'm in a quiet place. On my old home phones that have a cord and a receiver that is built in a cone shape so you can actually put it to your ear I have no problem. But, a cell phone? Forget it. Might as well be using 2 tin cans with a piece of string between.

I read an article last week from a guy who was a retired scientist for the old Bell system. He said the sound quality on today's cell phones is equivalent to the sound quality of the old "Candle Stick" phones from the early 1930's.
A Candle Stick phone is the old phone where you held the earpiece up to your ear in one hand and held the held the mouthpiece to talk into in the other hand.

I have the same problem. Sound quality is so horrible, most times you can't understand what the other person is saying.
And we pay a premium for that!

I believe it. I still can't get my younger friends trained to call me on my landline when they know I'm at home. They are so "Cell Phone" trained that many of them are shocked to learn that I even have a land line. They didn't think they existed any more. I think in some places they don't. After that last big hurricane on the east coast I heard that they were not going to rebuild the landline service out there. It's a shame really.