#touchtone β Public Fediverse posts
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πΆπ± Behold, a French dev-student-DJ-game-master has cracked the code to send #DTMF #tones on #Android without monopolizing your calls. Apparently, all it took was a sprinkle of #EDM magic and the dreams of every Android user who just can't resist the sweet symphony of touch-tone dialing. Now that's a real hit! ππ
https://edm115.dev/blog/2025/01/22/how-to-send-dtmf-on-android #Developer #Innovation #TouchTone #HackerNews #ngated -
Rotary phones were in use long after that in Canada, and probably other places, but touch-tone was also available. In the late 80s/early 90s I still had a line that would only do pulse dialing, because touch-tone dialing was an add-on charge with the phone company where I lived.
It was a significant amount; just adding touch-tone support increased the monthly bill by almost 10%. Yes, this was a BS charge, because it was just a flag they set on your account. It didn't cost them anything to provide tone dialing. They still do the same thing with caller-ID, so I don't have it. "We don't care. We're the phone company; we don't have to."
At the time, many (perhaps most) phones you could buy had push-button dialing, but there was a switch on the phone to choose pulse or tone dialing. If you set it to pulse, you'd push the 7 button, and then you'd hear 7 clicks, etc.
So kind of "hybrid dialing".
#Canada #phone #telephone #pulse #tone #dial #TouchTone #dialing #rotary #WeDontCare #PhoneCompany