I don't get talking on the phone. It's the lowest quality form of communication - it's ephemeral, and unlike actual face-to-face communications, all nuance and body language goes out the window. Not to mention the all-too-often piss-poor audio quality, mics that don't work half the time, and the "Can you hear me now? What was the last thing you heard?" and "Sorry, I was on mute" dances.
Voice is far better for bidirectional discussion, and is far faster overall. I can't stand having to wait for the other person to type in a response when I'm in a rush and not multitasking at the moment.
Texting is fine for discrete, concrete information conveyance or things that don't require an immediate response. Sometimes dragging out a low-priority conversation via text is fine, but it can also be a time sink.
And while you may lose body language, you still have all the nuance of vocal inflection in voice that is lost in text.
I gotta say, about 6 months ago I got an iPhone, after years of cheap/expensive Androids. I'm surprised, I don't know how the hardware's different, but audio quality is better. I used to tolerate talking on the phone, I actually like it now.
Besides, when I need to talk to a client, it's almost always faster and easier for me to make a call. 5 minutes of talking can easily bypass 15-20 minutes of writing an email.
When I'm in a call and there's a discussion that's that long, I have to take notes anyway to remember everything. So you're just transferring the typing burden onto the receiver.
I've yet to see anything that can't be more clearly, unambiguously, and quickly expressed in text or perhaps with a picture.
If it's taking too long to type, my suggestion would be to get better at typing, or distill out the wheat from the chaff of what you're trying to say. That's what really drives me up the wall with speech - the information density is typically incredibly low, and too often people let noises tumble out of their face-holes without trying to piece together a coherent thought. I realize that's harsh, but I've lost patience for rambling, stream-of-conscience external monologues. Which promptly dissolve back into the hot air from whence they came, since there is not a readily reviewable, indexed, searchable record created automatically in the process of such bloviation.
I don't get talking on the phone. It's the lowest quality form of communication - it's ephemeral, and unlike actual face-to-face communications, all nuance and body language goes out the window. Not to mention the all-too-often piss-poor audio quality, mics that don't work half the time, and the "Can you hear me now? What was the last thing you heard?" and "Sorry, I was on mute" dances.