[He registers some of the coldness but, as is a habit and a flaw, he doesn't pay enough attention to it. Instead he flashes her his own half-smile at the question.] Something like that.

Admittedly, I prefer a handwritten letter to a text, but I am a little old fashioned. [He says it half-apologetically before he adds,] It can also record film. The modern telephone is a device of remarkable utility.