Telephones Online - a simple view

April 11, 2011 - PRLog -- There has been much debate and interest of late in new advances in Telephone technology such as the introduction of RFID payment modules into smart phones such as the iphone, WiPho and Android handsets. There has been a proliferation of app stores from the major players whilst we have even seen court action over the very name 'app store'.
Nokia's recent agreement with Widows mobile have shaken up the industry whilst further litigation over patents and copyrights abound amongst the major players.
Telephones now are expected to do so much, to accomplish the amazing and to slip into the pocket.
But I fear that we are losing touch whilst trying so hard to keep in touch - Telephones are an amazing creation, the word itself derives from the Greek meaning distant voice or distant sound and that is just what, in essence we should remember them as being - a device for talking to someone from far away.
The very best function of the telephone does not need releasing by an app installation, nor does it require a sophisticated operating system. It is founded upon the early research of many people, most noticeably Alexander Graham Bell, who realised that the Telegraph/ Semaphore/ Fire Beacon means of transferring information from one place to another just had to go.
The early Telephones were simple devices which plugged into the PSTN (  public switched telephone network ) and allowed people to manipulate a number input mechanism and connect to someone else on the PSTN. They worked.
Of course, with improvements in technology and manufacturing processes these home telephones have become slightly more sophisticated but, still it is important to get one of these in your hands. Look at the great selection of telephones at http://www.telephonesonline.co.uk and you can see that these are no multipurpose smart mini computers, they just are telephones. Indeed BT once said that - "it is good to talk" and it is. I gain far more human contact from the people I actually talk to than the flaccid relationships which come about through social media on my mobile phone.
So, if you are looking in wonder at the new iPad, or trying to choose between phones based upon the screen resolution then remember that talking is great, speech and oratory are the highest level of evolution that we as human beings have attained and picking up a real telephone which transmits vocal inflections and stammers and coughs is the only way we can really make social interactions at a distance.

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