Using phones ... as phones again: voice up 36% during quarantine

Texting is nice. Zoom is great for work and birthday parties. And Facebook works for our wider circle of friends.   But there's something about good old-fashioned audio that has us returning to voice calls on our phones during quarantine. TextNow says its users spent more than 450 million minutes talking on the phone in the first full month of shutdown, March. While once that might not have been a shocking thing to say, it’s up 36% more than the previous month, and totals 313,000 days or 850 years of cumulative time talking on the phone.