Today, many Burmese monks own digital phones, luxury cars and LCD televisions.
And digital phones, which are rapidly replacing analog models, use even less.
These are for handling five or more phone lines and require special digital phones that are connected via ethernet.
Digital phones also have their own type of networks, which were built after the old analog networks.
In the US Congress, digital phones, laptops and tablets are now allowed into the chamber, a deliberative body.
Then somebody kept offering me a job to work in selling mobile phones — this was when digital phones were first coming out.
Meanwhile, the company missed the fact that cell-phone customers were shifting from analog phones to digital phones, which left Motorola playing catch-up with its rivals.
By contrast, several 5.8-gigahertz digital phones, particularly Uniden's TRU 8885-2, prompted some people whom I spoke with to ask if I was using a cellphone.
But the new, faster digital phones have gotten only a lukewarm reception from customers, and growth is slowing for the service, which DoCoMo calls i-mode.
But all the digital phones, including the Panasonic, sometimes reverted to the disembodied sound mode when used in some parts of my house.
Motorola said other prototypes of the wrist phone were being tested, all based on Motorola's popular V Series of small digital phones.
