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Andy Thompson is an entrepreneur, a designer and a mostly sane human being building incredibly awesome things on the internet. He calls Brooklyn home.
“ I hate AT&T’s quality, but I don’t hate it enough to leave. I didn’t really understand that, but then I started keeping track of how often I use voice. On my phone I only use voice about 5% of the time I use my iPhone. Almost all the rest of the time I’m using it for Twitter, to read news, to interact with apps, to play games, to Facetime with my sons/wife, etc. In non-voice parts of using the iPhone AT&T’s lack of quality of service doesn’t matter at all. Most of the time I’m doing those kinds of things I’m on wifi anyway. To gain better voice quality, which I only use about 5% of the time, I’d have to give up a better experience on the web and in apps, which just isn’t acceptable to me.
The first time I’ve even remotely agreed with Robert Scoble.
Why I can’t kick the Apple iPhone habit — Scobleizer
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![The First Call Made on Motorola’s Cellular Phone
The first public call was made out on the streets of New York. It was to [Joel S. Engel], the head of the cellular program at AT&T [Motorola’s competition in the carphone space]. I called and told him, “Joel, I’m calling you from a cellular phone, a real cellular phone, a handheld, portable, real cellular phone.”
I don’t remember exactly what he said, but it was really quiet for a while. My assumption was that he was grinding his teeth. He was very polite and ended the call. When asked about it, he says he has no recollection of this moment.”
Inventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5aw58dJJU1qz6yoko1_500.jpg)
