What is a digital telephone?

Question

What is a digital telephone? How does it differ from the older analog phones? What can a digital phone do that an analog phone cannot do?

Answer 1

As far as quality there is no difference. Analog phone and a digital phone are different in the programing, the type of cards used, the type of telephone sets used, and some features.

You most likely will find a digital phone in large businesses, they have the capability of have certain features and mulitple numbers programed. They are sometimes refered to as busness sets.

A analog phone is more commonly found in residence and all features programed to them are accesed by flash, or */# codes. These lines are not usually polarity sensitve, and are usally call POTS lines (plain old telephone set).

There is also ISDN which is another type of business set and work pretty much the same as a digital phone. However they do have some different features and are programed slightly different.

Answer 2

Basically clarity is your answer. Digital phone are a lot less prone to interference compared to analog ones. As an addition digital phone have a lot more features than analog ones as described earlier.

Answer 3

Digital telephones are mostly used as cell phones. They can take or receive pictures, go online, send text messages. You can change your backgrounds and add ringtones. A normal analog telephone cannot take or receive pictures. I have not encountered a digital landline telephone.