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The Telecom Digest for April 29, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 92 : "text" Format
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Re: Why Don't Cell Phones have Dial Tones? (Garrett Wollman)
Re: Why Don't Cell Phones have Dial Tones? (T)

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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:12:24 +0000 (UTC)
From: wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Why Don't Cell Phones have Dial Tones? 
Message-ID: <klh0to$2c98$1@grapevine.csail.mit.edu>

In article <bd871547b2dc8a85dfea0c9e309b94b8.squirrel@webmail.mishmash.org>,
 <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com> wrote:

>     There is no benefit to having a cell phone give a dial tone when it
>is displaying system readiness already.  All the calling party has to
>do is look at it and see that the system is ready for him/her to
>dial.

There are plenty of blind and visually-impaired people out there for
whom this is no help.

I assume without evidence that there is some sort of market for
assistive mobile phones which provide auditory and/or tactile cues for
those who are unable to see or read an LCD display.

-GAWollman

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Garrett A. Wollman    | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:03:52 -0400
From: T <kd1s.nospam@cox.nospam.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Why Don't Cell Phones have Dial Tones? 
Message-ID: <MPG.2be5eb21e5208b05989dd7@news.eternal-september.org>

In article 
<1366898374.93671.YahooMailClassic@web121903.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, 
joeofseattle@yahoo.com says...
> 
> Phones have come a long way since the old landline days. Our
> smartphones are light, fast, and have more computing power than NASA
> used to put a man on the moon.* Some advances came not by adding
> things to the phone, but by taking things away. Noticeably missing for
> anyone of a certain age is the dial tone. What happened to it?  We
> don't need it anymore. Or, at least the phones don't.
> 
>
> http://mentalfloss.com/article/50185/why-don%E2%80%99t-cell-phones-have-dial-tones
> 
> 
> or
> 
>
> http://goo.gl/Jk5TW
> 

Not just dial tones but I shut off all DTMF tones etc. from playing on 
the phone itself. I like my quiet phone. 






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