As can be seen, that covers almost every situation. There was a time when most mobile phone calls involved a land line on the other end, so at least one end of the conversation was likely to be trouble-free. Now an increasing percentage of calls are mobile to mobile, and there often seem to be issues.<\/p>\n

My clients and friends are often surprised to learn that I no longer have a mobile phone. Not only am I not a technophobe, I am usually the one they ask for advice on new products or technical problems. But, in addition to some of the technical annoyances Adams mentions, I find that I do not need to be instantly reachable by voice at all times.<\/p>\n

When on extended trips in Europe, I found a Blackberry to be very useful as I arranged to meet people at various destinations. But, I rarely used voice calling, doing most of my communicating via e-mail and text.<\/p>\n

So many people yell into their mobile phones while annoying train passengers, restaurant patrons, or other innocent bystanders, due either to technical issues or their own cluelessness about the capabilities of microphones and speakers. If we could eliminate or reduce their numbers, we would really have accomplished something.<\/p>\n

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Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams can hardly be called a technophobe, having worked with telecommunications engineers and as a computer programmer. Yet, he is among a small, but I hope growing, group who are tired of mobile phones. In his blog, Adams wonders whether mobile phones have become useless for voice conversations other than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n