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Re:My Pixel has a manufacturing defect by dghughes on Saturday December 10, 2016 @10:47AM (#13146135)
I've found the Nest protect service amazing. Sure technically they're Alphabet not Google.

I complained on Twitter about false positives and how I lost trust in it. They contacted me to say I can get a new replacement of the new version.

So I called them and the person spoke perfect fluent English and it wasn't tin can VoIP line. I was more amazed at those two things than getting a new smoke detector.

All good fast service I wish all tech support was as smooth. It was like being back in time when you got a person and everyone was polite plus your problem was resolved.

Re:My Pixel has a manufacturing defect by trome on Saturday December 10, 2016 @12:19PM (#13146658)
VoIP usually isn't a tin can (see VoLTE, Google Voice, 99% of VoIP providers), its just some call centers in international locations use g729 which wrecks audio quality & is not fault tolerant, thus when you get an AT&T rep in Honduras on the phone, he sounds terrible.
Re:My Pixel has a manufacturing defect by Hydraulix989 on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:05PM (#13147915)
The worst is when there's some kind of "ground loop" and you hear audible harmonics of 60 Hz background hum the entire time during your call.
Re:My Pixel has a manufacturing defect by trome on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:28AM (#13156798)
Omg yes, any kind of background hum or distorted comfort noise is the absolute bane of telephony, having experienced it on a few messed up landlines before.