Telephones for Audiophiles?

Agree with all the above comments. As for audiophile cell phones, actually there was one but it was a long time ago.

In 1985, for about $2000.00 you could get a Motorola analog cell phone that required an antenna in the center of your cars roof and required a 12 gauge copper wire run directly to the car battery because it drew so much current.

On more occasions than I can recall, if I stopped the car in a parking lot to return a call viewed on my pager (answering service) the person on the other end assumed I was in my office.

Several times I gave my cell number in case we had to get off, explaining it was my car. Then the questions, when will you be in your car? Will I be able to reach you?

When I told them i WAS in my car laughter rolled as they thought it was joke I was playing on them. This is absolute truth, those old Motorola phones that were the size of a suitcase that trunk mounted and analog only operation were incredible.

Funny thing was, they were so powerful i could drive for miles before it clicked to another tower. Those damn things would broadcast forever before they would die.

When I could no longer get service for my analog mobile phone, similar to the one Albert describes, I simply gave up mobile service altogether. They are all terrible. Home service is now digital and I think my blood pressure goes up when the phone rings. "What?" is the most frequent word I use when on the telephone. I pray for an analog resurgence, I will pay any price.

Provided you EyeSight is holding up OK, you could always learn to TEXT.

The iphone has terrible audio quality. I don't know what apple was thinking when it release this product! I am so tired of asking my callers to repeat what they said over and over and over again. Clarity is not a strong feature of this phone. You must use a head set when using this product.

Magfan

Yes, I generally now prefer email to speaking on telephones.

But sometimes of course you need to make a call, and I am starting to get a little farsighted.

Zieman, yes I get upset with home service too, and couldn't believe it when the early adopters went with VOIP and/or Skype.

At least in the early days, those services made cell phones sound like audiophile devices.

By the way, part of my irritation is having used mobile phones quite successfully in the UK and otherwise traveling around the world.

But in midtown Manhattan?!?!? the self described capital of the world, its just awful.

....and at home not too far away....its nothing but lost connections and can you hear me? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?

How people seem to think nothing of this and jabber away for hours on these things through a speaker phone is totally beyond me - and thats before we even discuss how they are hot, plastic, radiation emitting mass produced nasty cheap devices.

I noticed the new boutique for Vertu phones the other day in the Plaza Hotel, but couldnt bother to go in.

I would guess its a few thousand bucks for a sapphire crystalled, cheesily marketed thing that performs just as badly as the rest of them?

I have discoverd that upgrading to a 5.8 mghz (?) Panasonice wireless land line improved the range at home and also did not interfere with my wireless router.

But otherwise, please add me to the list that would pay lots of money for a nice phone that sounded good.

cwlondon