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Something we had in the UK decades ago, where 2 households shared a landline. It was a cost saving thing but had many privacy flaws as you could listen in to the other house if they were using the phone. Here's a more formal explanation:
Party lines are where two or more subscribers are connected to one telephone line pair. The most popular party line used was the two-party line, which as it name implies provides for two subscribers on the same pair of wires, one party was the A-line and the other was the B-line. Party lines do not provide secrecy from the other party, but they use earthed ringing circuits so that only the intended recipient’s telephone bell rang. When a subscriber wished to make a call they had to operate a push-to-make switch on their telephone to signal to the exchange that they wished to make a call, this ensured that the exchange metering billed the correct subscriber. A subscriber wishing to make a call had to wait for the other party to finish their call, if they were already on a call. If the call was an emergency they had to request the other party to conclude their call. Shared service was introduced on automatic exchanges in 1942 but ended in the early 1980’s as the new system X and system Y digital exchanges did not have the facility for party lines.
A Memory slot have no more place in phones because is super super slow in data transfer. 3.5mm jack and a replaceable battery have no chance because of the IP68. Probably in the budgets other the midrangers but all that is simply not compatible with the flagships tendency since a couple of years. Im missing a... HTC style and wish it comeback. The body and UI design was unique. Like a jewelry.
The feature I miss the most is, hands down, design variety. I want crazy-looking, crazy-shaped phones with different display shapes and sizes, slides, swivels, rotating phones—you name it. It was so much more fun in the 2000s :))
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What's a Party Line? :)))
Something we had in the UK decades ago, where 2 households shared a landline. It was a cost saving thing but had many privacy flaws as you could listen in to the other house if they were using the phone. Here's a more formal explanation:
Party lines are where two or more subscribers are connected to one telephone line pair. The most popular party line used was the two-party line, which as it name implies provides for two subscribers on the same pair of wires, one party was the A-line and the other was the B-line. Party lines do not provide secrecy from the other party, but they use earthed ringing circuits so that only the intended recipient’s telephone bell rang. When a subscriber wished to make a call they had to operate a push-to-make switch on their telephone to signal to the exchange that they wished to make a call, this ensured that the exchange metering billed the correct subscriber. A subscriber wishing to make a call had to wait for the other party to finish their call, if they were already on a call. If the call was an emergency they had to request the other party to conclude their call. Shared service was introduced on automatic exchanges in 1942 but ended in the early 1980’s as the new system X and system Y digital exchanges did not have the facility for party lines.
A Memory slot have no more place in phones because is super super slow in data transfer. 3.5mm jack and a replaceable battery have no chance because of the IP68. Probably in the budgets other the midrangers but all that is simply not compatible with the flagships tendency since a couple of years. Im missing a... HTC style and wish it comeback. The body and UI design was unique. Like a jewelry.
The feature I miss the most is, hands down, design variety. I want crazy-looking, crazy-shaped phones with different display shapes and sizes, slides, swivels, rotating phones—you name it. It was so much more fun in the 2000s :))