Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: texst to a landline Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 09:42:21 +0000 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jK7a0VVFtU/1utv9qdWivwwOV2LR07oVuWkGVRoXiuUoxjjgjC Cancel-Lock: sha1:SB02NXIcwL0pWFizrATIA6b3UIs= sha256:CkySa9m1otFV2Bw8Ci+6xS2faZnuPoF0I+o/f0cm9tA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:146167 Newyana2 wrote: > Andy Burns wrote: > >> Aren't DECT phone common over there?  Many of them have SMS capability >> when on a PSTN/POTS line. > >   I don't know what DECT I suspected they hadn't really caught-on over there, they're digital cordless (mostly home) phones, so they tend to have a lot of mobile-like features, such as a graphical display. Though mostly people associate texting only with mobiles. > or POTS mean. I specifically said POTS because I believed you used that term (plain old telephone service) rather than PSTN, oh well. > We have landlines > that can be direct phone wires or VOIP. Either way, the > phones are the same. Same here. > There's room for maybe 12 letter in > the Caller ID display and no facility to receive a text. > They can receive an audio message, but then, who's going > to go to the trouble to sned an audio message when most of > the people they know have texting?