It was more that the smartphone is used less and less for calling and more and more as an internet device. Texting, social media, Skype tend to move soem away form a traditional phone call.
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--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, "Tonya" <cuppa.chat@...> wrote:
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> I'd like to read that article.
> Imagine... using a telephone for voice communication !
> That would be like using an electric range to cook food !
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> From: Tony
> Date: 5/26/2012 3:17:58 PM
> To: iPad@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [iPad] Re: Adv/Disadvantages of having an iPhone vs Android phone
> with iPad? + Apple TV?
>
> I read a short article on exactly that recently. Voice is becoming less and
> less used.
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> --- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@> wrote:
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> > > My one hiccup with the iPhone was the inflexibility to actually control
> phone features like call block. When iPhone allows true blocking, versus
> setting up unwanted numbers with a quiet (silent) ringtone, I might come
> back.
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> > I don't know how common my situation is, but of all the many functions an
> iPhone can perform, the LEAST-used one is talking to other people by voice.
> >
> > Most identified limitations of the iPhone as a voice telephone are
> therefore simply irrelevant to me. I know some others have also said this,
> but I don't know how wide-spread it is.
> >
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