Text messaging sucks. If you think about it, it’s a pretty inefficient way to communicate. It’s slow, lacks nuance, and it’s easy to make mistakes. Smartphones with huge touch screens have a lot going for them, but making texting easy isn’t one of them.
Thankfully though, there are other options. Most major messaging apps—including iMessage, WhatsApp, and Facebook Chat—have other ways for you to communicate: you can send emoji, photos, videos, and—most importantly for me—voice messages, which have some serious advantages over pure text messages.
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Voice messaging is quicker. Typing texts on a touch screen is slow and awkward, it’s easy to make mistakes (which you have to go back and correct), and you have to look directly at the screen the whole time. Even if you’re a really quick texter who rarely makes mistakes, it’s still likely to be slower than the speed at which you talk.
Voice messaging can be done one-handed, which means you can do it pretty much anywhere. Even “normal” sized modern smartphone like the regular iPhone 8 or the Google Pixel have huge screens. I haven’t been able to properly…
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