Technology never ever stops.

My favorite object to besmirch and direct my anger towards is the ever present in my face mobile phones. Yes, cellular phones. The go everywhere wireless device one carries in his Adidas Polo shirt pocket or her Prada leather purse. Mobile phone used for the spoken and texted word. Plus the same mobile device having every onboard multimedia video, game, and exotic downloaded App gadget to play with and waste one’s valuable time. Just a pocket full of “Wireless” miracles.

I too recently had relented to peer pressure and took possession of a so-called “smart phone.” And you must understand, most of my peers are either dead or in nursing homes. So, what real credibility do they actually have. Maybe none.

But anyway, to be specific, I bought an iPhone. A small package of bewilderment and puzzlement. A mobile device intended to frustrate and raise the blood pressure of the Pre-Boomer user. Giving good reason for heavy drinking or long cold showers.

Never the less, what has seriously seldom been addressed by the wireless pinheads in the mobile phone world is the lack of sound quality in the sound transmission. However, the way I perceive and hear this, mobile audio still is lacking in reasonable and realistic sound functionality and audio quality. Certainly not equal to the old “landlines.” A gold standard for sure. But, I am guessing, the cell phone world’s vast numbers of units and infinite quantity makes up the difference for quality. Right?

However, we still have an expensive piece of metal and glass that looks pretty, has a nice mp3 player, has reasonable video, but is cloudy and wishy-washy in its audio department. Voices on the other end sounding like they are talking under water. Sounding like maybe speaking through a rubber snorkel. And, I’m certain, most people seldom talk under water. It’s the cell phone technology that is missing or incomplete. Still in the concept stage. And, perhaps not enough cellular towers and usually because of a lack of church spires or water towers.

Today, the best sound quality most mobiles can possibly produce sounds like Pre-Alexander Graham Bell. Certainly equal to that of telephone landline transmission going back some 80-years previous. Acting like voices delivered by sagging phone line traveling over leaning phone poles. Poles Chris crossing the weathered outback of 1920s America. Finally, mobiles sounding like Edward R Murrow reporting by trans-ocean cable from London during World War II. Sound phasing in and out. Sometimes dropping the whole connection. Pop! Gone. End Call!

“You’re fading on me!”
“Go over next to the window and put your cell against the glass.”
“Take three steps backwards and face the other way.”
“Stop your car on an overpass and get out.”
“You sound like you are in a wind tunnel filled with bats.”
“Go back where you were standing before and squat down.”
“Are you at a teen club with monkeys?”
“Get out and stand on the roof of your car.”
“Take two steps to the right and tilt your head to the left.”
You’re gone. I’ve lost you for sure. Fade to black.”