Remove the majority of headsets, replace them with PDAs

[Noah Buttes]

Headsets could be more or less a wireless earpiece thing where it interfaces with the PDA so you can hear and speak into it without the PDA needing to be in your hand. Course, that's just like how headsets work already. Maybe let the headset plug into the station-bounced radios if you lose your PDA.

So! More in line with your smartphone PDA idea, what about giving the PDA the ability to call other crewmembers in addition to sending text messages? You'd ring someone, and as long as they dont hang up, you can talk to them with a fancy radio prefix. And conference calls, and cant-come-to-the-phone-leave-a-message-after-the-honk recordings, and obnoxious ringtones too.

Might even prove useful for telesci expeditions and traitor activity, unless mechanics can snoop the contents of group calls.

They can already snoop on normal pda messages, so I don't see why they wouldn't be able to spy on group calls.