In the days when what is now called terrestrial radio -- that is, free radio, broadcast by local stations -- ruled, you couldn't help hearing his voice as you twisted the dial through the stations in your town.
The MEX-BT5000 acts as a hands free kit for any Bluetooth phone (although we're sure they'd prefer if it was one of their own), giving you access to up to 50 of your contacts and six of your speed dial entries through its "high resolution" screen and integrated noise-reducing micophone.
And the fact is most of us still suffer the Internet through dial-up, the World Wide Wait, as it's become known.
But despite the most sophisticated enterprise systems to capture and aggregate information, human decisions are usually made in dial up mode through things like weekly staff or quarterly budget approval meetings.
When a company has a business opportunity that demands more processing capacity, or new applications, or adding hundreds of new users, they can dial it up through their cloud computing service provider with slightly more effort than it takes to get lunch delivered.
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You may also credit the car's Eco driving mode, accessible through a rotary dial in the between-the-seat console.
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As you scroll through stations on the dial, a gender-selectable voice prompt tells you what station you've reached.
Dial the 800 number, work through a dizzying array of menu choices, choose to speak with a human being and wait on hold listening to music for 20 minutes to two hours (it happened to me once) and you might reach a person who can (in only 70% of my cases) provide definitive, final help.
It is not uncommon to dial up to 50 times before even getting through to the queuing system.
It also can be a rather multi-step affair to even make a call, since there's no home screen speed dial or voice recognition, and the phonebook can't be searched, only scrolled through.
Navigation through it can be done through waving your hand over the device, swiping or rotating the orb like a dial.
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