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Re: Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit

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Post by kwhitefoot » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 1:27 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #26

kwhitefoot wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know this is off topic and it's not a criticism of your comment but I think it's a shame that Luddite has become so watered down. The real life Luddites put their lives on the line in the fight against industrial weaving. The didn't just avoid using a steam loom while drinking an almond latte.

first definition in a dictionary says Luddite is someone opposed to new technology. your definition has been moved to the second definition of the word. so the world has moved past you and you now seem to be a Luddite (of sorts) hanging on to a definition of the word the world has found less useful.

I still think it's a shame.

But, HN needs to add emojis to the upvote so I can say that you made me smile without the effort of actually writing a comment!

Re: Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit

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Post by spockz » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 5:15 PM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #42

spockz wrote: post #21

Recently call quality on our normal mobile phone connections have severely degraded. (At least in the places I visit in NL and especially while in a moving vehicle.) I switched to using FaceTime audio and with the noise cancellation the audio quality is superb and I would t want to go back. So although I would love to use a minimal phone like this I would want to keep all the benefits of modern day audio connections.

It's shocking to me how terrible regular cellular call quality is, when on the same network and device I access superior quality through WhatsApp.

Strangely it isn’t always like this. Years ago I called a colleague on his private number and somehow we had an extremely clear connection.

Why doesn’t Apple make its voice isolation available in the phone dialer as well?

Re: Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit

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Post by Handytinge » Mon, May 02, 2022, 11:19 AM UTC

spockz wrote: post #72

dleslie wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's shocking to me how terrible regular cellular call quality is, when on the same network and device I access superior quality through WhatsApp.

Strangely it isn’t always like this. Years ago I called a colleague on his private number and somehow we had an extremely clear connection. Why doesn’t Apple make its voice isolation available in the phone dialer as well?

A significant quality difference is the codec. POTS calls are generally in some leg analog, meaning they scale down to about 8kbit. VoIP options have wider band codecs like G722 and Opus, allowing for 128kbit+.