I read alot on /. but I don't often post. This concept has got to be one of the dumbest ideas to come along in a while on this site. The largest inconvenience I've seen on this topic is calls from family. Too.damn.bad. Best learn to cope. End of voicemail, pfft! Convergence with email or text messages I can understand, but there is too much NOT conveyed in the written form that is essential to human communication. Text sucks because it doesn't convey tone. Phone communication sucks because it doesn't convey body-language. Or is the author still in his mom's basement, insulated from human interaction by his txt and email barriers? GET OUT AND USE MORE THAN ELECTRONIC TEXT TO COMMUNICATE, (caps for emphasis, not yelling). And those who believe their systems/methods are best for everyone are the most myopic people with the narrowest mindsets imaginable. I'm fairly certain those same people have the least understanding why it was so hard to get mom to start using email. Man up, Nancy! That's your Mom! Take the GD call! (now I'm yelling)

Indeed. Good luck with that complete loss of communication when you lose your cell phone, or it breaks. You'll have no voice mail to check to see who/what you need to deal with. So much narrow-sightedness in these ideas...

Everyone in your clique, maybe. It's hard enough to get the boss to send emails from a machine with a keyboard, now you want the old dog to text? You're nuts. Here's a tip for the under 25 crowd: Tech trends are decided on a longer cycle than you (or I) have been alive. You may have had email all your life, but your granny's in her 70s and had at least 55 years of life without email. Crap, granny may not have had a phone in the house when she was a girl.

Cannot agree with this more. And to add: voice-mail will end up dying about the same time as the fax. While we're all for the advancement of tech, the over 40 crowd are fairly stuck in their ways, (not /. over 40, general populace over 40), and it will be a long time before that demographic moves to the great beyond. For crying out loud, fax isn't dead, teletext is on it's last gasps, and the only truly dead form of communication is the telegraph. (There's still vinyl in the stores, they still sell VCRs in the stores... much like a cross old man, tech takes forever to pass-on). While I applaud the submitter and author's enthusiasm, I am equally inclined to fault their myopia.

All it needs is a stowable bluetooth earpiece and a competent phone and you've got yourself a seller.