Current Events > Smartphones are great at a lot of things, but suck as actual phones

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Other than the fact that the sound quality is abysmal for some reason, touch screen smartphones are a terrible way to answer a phone.

I get a call and reach for the phone from my pocket in a hurry only to find out I've accidentally swiped the red hang up part of the screen. For answering calls you really need some damn buttons for it.

A completely smooth all touch screen phone is just a terrible idea. Touch screen has its benefits, but I still think it should work in tandem with at least 2 or 3 buttons.

I know right, which is why this stupid phone from Apple that's all touch screen is going to fail so hard. Also I'm super stoked about the live action Transformer, going to be the bomb, and I also got rickrolled? It's when you click a link and it takes you to some stupid old music video, wth is that? Stupid things people will think of.

My phone is actually pretty good at being a phone. Especially when I'm in my car and it's hands free with top quality audio.
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You're actually not wrong.

I love my galaxys8+, its a fucking dream of a piece of tech. however for the simple purpose of answering a phone call it will never beat having a button that provides actual tactile feedback.

I think we're in an awkward phase at the moment where everything has become touch tech to such a degree that we're getting worse actual functionality on certain things. Like a touch screen water fountain...that shit should not be a digital touch screen. That should be a simple mechanical valve.
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Sound quality has a lot to do with network bandwidth, if you have poor audio it's usually because there are a lot of people on the network in your area, or it's a shit network to begin with.
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I actually like my S8+ as a phone as sound quality is usually crystal clear.
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Poor audio quality is usually the fault of the network limiting bandwidth or compressing the audio to 300Hz-3.4kHz when the actual mics on the phones have a better range and quality. Many HD Voice phones which extend it to 50hz to anywhere between 3.4kHz to 7kHz all the way up to potentially 22kHz depending on the bandwidth the network will allow, which 50hz-22kHz is well outside of the range of human voices, but most networks simply don't care and limit the bandwidth to focus the traffic on data instead.

There really isn't anything phone companies themselves could do to improve them.

Aside from that, I agree that not having tactile buttons and a physical number pad is worse for calls, but it's a trade off you have to make unless you get on of the few smartphones with a physical keyboard like Blackberry or whatever.
The trade-off there is it becomes thicker, and to compensate they usually reduce battery size, etc.

Even then a lot of phones have volume button shortcuts to answer/silence calls. Only drawback is tactile buttons for dialing or using an automated system.
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Metro pcs sucks dick where I live, I can't call or text throughout the day unless I use wifi calling and even then it rarely works.
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

Metro pcs sucks dick where I live, I can't call or text throughout the day unless I use wifi calling and even then it rarely works.

Metro PCS sucks for that everywhere I ever used it. There's really no reason to even have it when cheaper and better no contract plans exist that utilize better networks or have better badwidth allocation deals with them.
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Slip-N-Slide posted...

Poor audio quality is usually the fault of the network limiting bandwidth or compressing the audio to 300Hz-3.4kHz when the actual mics on the phones have a better range and quality. Many HD Voice phones which extend it to 50hz to anywhere between 3.4kHz to 7kHz all the way up to potentially 22kHz depending on the bandwidth the network will allow, which 50hz-22kHz is well outside of the range of human voices, but most networks simply don't care and limit the bandwidth to focus the traffic on data instead.

There really isn't anything phone companies themselves could do to improve them.

Aside from that, I agree that not having tactile buttons and a physical number pad is worse for calls, but it's a trade off you have to make unless you get on of the few smartphones with a physical keyboard like Blackberry or whatever.
The trade-off there is it becomes thicker, and to compensate they usually reduce battery size, etc.

Even then a lot of phones have volume button shortcuts to answer/silence calls. Only drawback is tactile buttons for dialing or using an automated system.

A physical number pad is a bit much, I'm really only asking for a green and red button to answer calls or hang up calls, because even with reduced sensitivity the samsung touch screen is just so super sensitive that it's prone to hanging up the call when I simply start to reach for it in my pocket. Just a couple of buttons on a touchscreen phone would be doable I think.

This makes me think of my dad, and how I've told him numerous times where the back button is, yet every time I go to hand him the phone to show him something he lays his thumb directly on the back button, then looks at me as though I fucked up.
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When I call another apple user the sound quality is great. I can always tell when someone is using an android phone or $2 earphones when the sound quality is shit.
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I always have a flip cover for my touchscreen phones, to make sure I don't accidentally hang up, or answer a call.

Chicken posted...

When I call another apple user the sound quality is great. I can always tell when someone is using an android phone or $2 earphones when the sound quality is shit.

Doubtful
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>making phone calls in AD 2018

mine works fine.

only bugs me when im going through contacts and the sensitive screen taps the call button
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My Pixel is the first phone that's actually really good.
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Chicken posted...

When I call another apple user the sound quality is great. I can always tell when someone is using an android phone or $2 earphones when the sound quality is shit.

Interesting. My experience with my S8+ is that calls usually come in crystal clear regardless of who I call. The other person may as well be standing right next to me.

My former iPhone 6 Plus (and frankly all my iPhones before that) wasn't all that good for call quality.
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I'm getting a regular s8 soon so we'll see if the sound quality is any good.

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