Well, I can turn my phone on in the time it takes to dial a rotary phone :)
I’m not sure about Android but with an iphone you can get 911 without even dialing. (Emergency SOS.)
There are ways to make a 911 call with no signal, with no service. You can reach them with no phone at all if you have internet and a VoIP.
There’s always a tradeoff. If your priority is emergency assistance rather than privacy, that’s your call, npi.
[[Well, I can turn my phone on in the time it takes to dial a rotary phone :)]]
Oh man, that’s like, forever!!!
As kids were were of course impatient and wanted o speak to who ever we were callin immediately, and we’d have to dial their numbers and wait for the rotary tO get back to its position before dialing the next number. Long story short, numbers with lots of 8’s and 9’s and 0’s etc were excruciatingly long for us imoatient folks lol
Can still remeber the “kitchen phone” we all used, and how excited we were when we fi ally got a longer chord so it could reach the livinroom lol. As ,i