Just wondering why a landline sounds better with a crisper sound quality than a cell phone
Is there a reason for this ?

 

Landlines are normally shielded to prevent outside interference. Cell phones are essentially radios and their signals can be interfered with by other radio signals, atmospheric conditions, lightning, even sunspots.

 

fuck a flip phone is better than a smart phone if all you want to do is talk.....

 

Basically cellphone service providers forget somewhere along the line that cellphones actually make phone calls and as such put very little effort into sound quality . Cellphones employ Nodes that allocate bandwidth and are generally assigned a low rate coupled with a microphone the size of a pin head that is often either covered in plastic or sunken into a device .
They spend all their energy perfecting the actual computer portion of a device such as text and email and not the transmission capability .

 

Strange , I don't find that it's a problem generally.

I gave up my landline , because the mobile service had become so good ,
including sound quality.

Usually if mobile quality is not good , we can figure why .
Not holding phone or talking into it correctly , poor service area , and things like that.
With the old landline service , it was just pot luck.
OK most of the time , but when not , it just wasn't and you never knew why.
All you could do was hang up and try again , hoping you'd get a better line.

Even international.
Had family in England recently , about as far away as you can get on the planet , 12,000 miles , and was totally impressed with mobile calls.
Much better than line calls years ago.
Quicker connection to , and cheaper .

The other thing , for me , being literally half deaf (if not more than) , I can have speaker phone instantly , and volume control , everywhere I go ,
and both better than what I had on landline , even with an expensive special home phone.

I'm actually amazed how good it is , for such small speakers and microphones.

Nine times out of ten , if I'm having trouble hearing , I say so , and get ,
"oh I'm sorry I wasn't talking into the phone , is that better ?".
and it's fixed , instantly.

Which comes back to my first comment.
It's usually how you use/hold them that causes bad sound , in my experience.

 

I threw my cell phone in the trash a couple of years ago. Best thing I have done in a long time.

 

Poeple still have landlines?

 

I would blame the carrier before I blamed the phone and it may depend on where you are as well as the call getting bounced from tower to tower if you are mobile. I just got a Galaxy S8 yesterday as well as the other dozen phones I already have and it has great reception but then again I have a couple great carriers.

I get crystal clear reception and rarely hear "can you hear me now" lol.

 

I agree about the flip phone.
Still have my years old one , as a backup.
It mostly lives in the glovebox , turned off and ignored.
Only needs charging occasionally , and handy if away from home and need a phone in a hurry , but haven't yet.
Just has standard prepay credit , lasts a year , so use it enough to use a few dollars cedit each year.
Guess it'll be round till the battery is useless , or it gets drowned

 

I have a landline and no cell phone. I block calls from those that don't leave a voicemail.

 

Interestingly ,
the old Motorola flip phone , when turned on , still lasts longer (on standby as it were) than the much newer android.
Great away on the boat , as I can just leave it on , ready for emergency , or to receive incoming inquiries , and only need to charge every few days.

 

A sad example of unwise usage here recently.
A teen boy out jogging in morning , listening to something on his cellphone through earphones ,
walked through a zigzag safety barrier , and straight out in front of a commuter train.
Bang , dead.
Was all captured on CCTV.
He had to go left round right round left , to get on the level crossing , and never even glanced up ,
even with warning signs placed low , specifically so drongo's on phones etc , looking down , couldn't/shouldn't miss them.
Morning rush hour computer time.

I happen to know the particular crossing , as had friend lived close ,
and remember the trains were frequent , even back then , so no excuse for not being aware.

One of the disadvantages of cellphones