The old phones were better
Steve Sailer (more):

The New York Times’ Virginia Heffernan’s lovely essay last year about the superb sound quality we enjoyed a generation ago on our old-fashioned analog landline telephones. In contrast, having grown up on crummy-sounding cell phones, she says it’s no wonder that today’s youth prefer to text.

Obviously I use a computer keyboard but I don’t type with my thumbs on a dinky one.