Re:Why Did Amazon Make a Phone? A Conversation With Jeff Bezos
by peterwwillis on Friday June 20, 2014 @11:48AM
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"But that’s not what the phone is about. It has to stand on its own as a fantastic phone. It even has to make phone calls."
I chuckled here, but seriously, why do we even call these things 'smartphones' anymore? The voice calling aspect has been the forgotten feature for years.
I remember getting a cheap Android phone and the whole dialpad UI would freeze up, or I couldn't answer the damn thing when it rang because the UI was locking up due to god know's what. Mine still lags, but is fast enough to react within about 5 seconds of me pressing a "button". Same for clicking on the voice-command feature.... I hear the audible "ping", and 5 seconds later the display comes up.
Let's be realistic: all smartphones are basically just handheld tablets whose radios/SIMs happen to allow access to voice channels.
I chuckled here, but seriously, why do we even call these things 'smartphones' anymore? The voice calling aspect has been the forgotten feature for years.
I remember getting a cheap Android phone and the whole dialpad UI would freeze up, or I couldn't answer the damn thing when it rang because the UI was locking up due to god know's what. Mine still lags, but is fast enough to react within about 5 seconds of me pressing a "button". Same for clicking on the voice-command feature.... I hear the audible "ping", and 5 seconds later the display comes up.
Let's be realistic: all smartphones are basically just handheld tablets whose radios/SIMs happen to allow access to voice channels.