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Dial Tone (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Sometime, probably close to 20 years ago, but perhaps more recently, you heard a dial tone for the last time and you didn’t even realize it would be.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My phone makes a dial tone the moment I press a single key on the keypad to make a call. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's not the same as picking up a landline; it's just the phone app adding it probably to let you know you're dialing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure about that? Dial tone is a sound you hear before dialing, not the sound you hear when you press a key.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm old enough to know what a dial tone sounds like. On this phone's phone app once you hit a key, it'll make the key tone and then start making the droning dial tone sound until you finish dialing or hit the back button to cancel.

The only reason I can think of for them to put this in the app is to let you know you've got it open and some numbers have been pressed to prevent butt dialing. 🤷🏻‍♂️