Ongoing Process

I’ve been shopping for a new phone for a while now.  My old one died prematurely and the first replacement is junk (Nokia both, no more for me!), so I’m trying to be more choosy about the next one.  So I’m reading through piles of phone reviews and I find a most curiously consistent absence: call quality.  They go on for pages and pages about this bell and that whistle, but they don’t actually say anything about how well it receives a signal or how good the person on the other end sounds.  I think we have collectively rather missed the point of a phone…