By running from Skype to a mobile phone, you use two fairly crappy codecs: iLBC at 13 kilobits per second on top of GSM at 12 kilobits per second. On their own, each one is marginally tolerable, but I would rather gouge my eardrums out with a dagger than listen to the two codecs combined.
The WE 500 series (and pretty much every Western Electric phone introduced after 1949) has a varistor across the receiver element to prevent loud clicks and pops from hurting the user's ear. The older phones don't have this; holding a 302 up to your ear while playing with the telephone line can be a painful experience:)
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mmm, iSmore.
"300 Calories. In your pocket."
I've got a GSM phone, and it still sounds horrid. Less horrid that CDMA, mind you, but still horrid.
By running from Skype to a mobile phone, you use two fairly crappy codecs: iLBC at 13 kilobits per second on top of GSM at 12 kilobits per second. On their own, each one is marginally tolerable, but I would rather gouge my eardrums out with a dagger than listen to the two codecs combined.
The WE 500 series (and pretty much every Western Electric phone introduced after 1949) has a varistor across the receiver element to prevent loud clicks and pops from hurting the user's ear. The older phones don't have this; holding a 302 up to your ear while playing with the telephone line can be a painful experience :)