Phone calls  Hanging up  Reports of the death of the phone call
are greatly exaggerated  See article  Readers' comments
Historically people have been wiling to pay a premium for real
time person to person communication. That why voice, the easiest
and most accessible form of real time communication keeps going.
I can walk and talk with virtually anything i am doing,
especially with a headset - not true of text based
communication.  It is true that more and more people seem to
prefer to try to contact people via email and messaging rather
than ring them up but the whole benefit of mobile is that its
personal and you can have direct voice contact. It would be
rather crazy if we develop voice to text conversion and text to
voice (all technically possible) to communicate using text
rather than just speak directly - I'm sure they'll think thats
cool in Silicon Valley but the rest of us may spot the flaw.
Sirs and Ladies, I know many of USA's texting young people, and
I fear they do not know why the formerly