RE: Listening to Voiceover
I know this message is ridiculously late in response, Brice, but I have my ear buds with me all the time and can enjoy complete privacy with my screen curtain on as well. Even in very noisy environments, you can hear the speech if it is turned up loudly enough. I like the buds because you can still hear people and still be aware of your surroundings while texting or playing around with your apps. I find the buds particularly handy when I'm listening to blind square tell me where I am. If done safely, you can even cross busy streets with only one ear bud in if you take out the bud in your ear where the parallel traffic comes from. The only time I have blind square coming from my external speaker is when I am in a cab. This lets the driver know that he can't pull one over on me. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Listening to Voiceover
I keep them in my pocket as well, but I have figured out a trick to untangling them, because they tangle easily. You have to pull out one piece of the cord at a time. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chaltain Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 7:01 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
Re: Listening to Voiceover
I really don't get this thing with some sighted people raggin on us about how we choose to listen to our phone in public. If using mobile phones in public weren't such a huge deal Plantronics, etc. wouldn't be selling millions of headsets/earbuds world wide. I can't tell you how many people have almost run me over because they were yakking on their phone and using two hands to do something else, and this isn't just referring to being hit by vehicles. I get it, the world isn't blind and we need to understand that, but I think some people take their desire to conform a bit too far. And frankly, in a situation like this, my safety and comfort come before those concerns. I'm waiting on my Aftershoxz bluez headphones to come in precisely so I can use my phone in public and still be aware of my surroundings, this means I won't have to yell at people who can't understand me or be oblivious to people around me. I got an iPhone so I could take advantage of all it offers, and I don't really care what people say about the style of my headset. I'm using two mainstream items to interact with the sighted world, and that's as good as they're going to get from me. Lisa Chocolate is the answer... who cares what the question is! Lisa Belville missktlab1...@frontier.com - Original Message - From: Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -Original Message- From: Sandy Finley Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away
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Maybe she wants you to pay attention to her instead of the phone. I am not ashamed to be blind. We ride on the bike trail and you wouldn't believe how many walkers are out there with their headphones on and the music so loud I can hear it as we go by. We try to honk to let them know we are behind them and I don't think they even hear it. Keep on using the headphones. On 5/27/13, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I think headphones or, a bluetooth earpiece calling attention to a persons blindness is absurd. lol. tens of millions of these things are sold world wide, I'm fairly certain it is not just blind people buying them. haha. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 27, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Lisa belville missktlab1...@frontier.com wrote: I really don't get this thing with some sighted people raggin on us about how we choose to listen to our phone in public. If using mobile phones in public weren't such a huge deal Plantronics, etc. wouldn't be selling millions of headsets/earbuds world wide. I can't tell you how many people have almost run me over because they were yakking on their phone and using two hands to do something else, and this isn't just referring to being hit by vehicles. I get it, the world isn't blind and we need to understand that, but I think some people take their desire to conform a bit too far. And frankly, in a situation like this, my safety and comfort come before those concerns. I'm waiting on my Aftershoxz bluez headphones to come in precisely so I can use my phone in public and still be aware of my surroundings, this means I won't have to yell at people who can't understand me or be oblivious to people around me. I got an iPhone so I could take advantage of all it offers, and I don't really care what people say about the style of my headset. I'm using two mainstream items to interact with the sighted world, and that's as good as they're going to get from me. Lisa Chocolate is the answer... who cares what the question is! Lisa Belville missktlab1...@frontier.com - Original Message - From: Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 3:49 PM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -Original Message- From: Sandy Finley Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still
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Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an Android phone. Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent which holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good with not running out of juice if I'm around places I can't connect to a wall. Lastly, if I don't have all my gadgets with me, I will hold the phone close to my ear like I'm making a phone call and tap away that way. We live in a sighted world and so I try to not appear to be socially inept, however many sighted people do worse things, and we just don't know about them because we can't see them. So, that helps me
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My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -Original Message- From: Sandy Finley Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an Android phone. Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent which holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good with not running out of juice if I'm around
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I just asked my sighted husband how common it is to see people wearing headsets in public. We live fairly near Paris and use the local trains a lot. The vast majority of people wear headsets of some kind, from the tiny earbuds to huge cans. Cheers, Anne On 26 May 2013, at 22:49, Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com wrote: My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I was dictating quietly to my IPhone yesterday when I was in the dentist's office. My boyfriend said people were starig at me. I figured too bad. I hear people talking on their phones all the time. I just happen to be talking to mie. LOL Tina ** Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. -- 1 John 3:18 - Original Message - From: Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:49 PM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -Original Message- From: Sandy Finley Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have
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Is there such a thing as a Bluetooth earbud that is not a headset? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:13 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover I use a single ear wired headset when using the phone in public where I need to listen to what's going on around me. Otherwise, I use the earpods that came with my iPhone 5. Alan Lemly -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I have a Plantroics M50 that I bought from Amazon. It's a one ear bluetooth earpiece. You can find a review of it on applevis. Tina ** Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. -- 1 John 3:18 - Original Message - From: Dulce Muccio Weisenborn d...@lifedesigns-inc.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:47 PM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Is there such a thing as a Bluetooth earbud that is not a headset? -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:13 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover I use a single ear wired headset when using the phone in public where I need to listen to what's going on around me. Otherwise, I use the earpods that came with my iPhone 5. Alan Lemly -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Yeah, unless you accidently put then through the laundry! Fortunately it was an older style that I did that to a few months ago. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:10 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Hello, For those who didn't already know, your Apple earbuds/earPods are covered under Apple care. So, you have a year from the purchase of your device to replace your headphones if they become damaged or, 2 years if you payed to extend Apple care. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 25, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Craig Werner coffeeb...@gmail.com wrote: If one uses one's pocket to carry small headphones, enclosing them in the smallest possible zip lock bag is a good idea. To avoid kinking and crimping of the cable, just be careful to wind the cord loosely before inserting it into the bag. Craig On 5/25/13, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote: I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed
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I like my Aftershoz headphones also once I manage to get them on comfortably, it even allows me to hear the phone in the left ear better, especially great for music I can actually hear more of a stereo effect which is cool since I have not been able to hear that unless I change balance in 23 years. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy Baracco Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:57 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover I agree. Andy -Original Message- From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover I use my Aftershokz bone conduction headset as I can't stand having my ears blocked with earbuds. I don't feel safe if I can't hear my environment. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. I'm not wearing a diaper, so don't try to change me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Or your dog chews them into itty bits. LOL Tina ** Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. -- 1 John 3:18 - Original Message - From: Rose Combs rosecom...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 6:56 PM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Yeah, unless you accidently put then through the laundry! Fortunately it was an older style that I did that to a few months ago. -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Walker Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:10 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Hello, For those who didn't already know, your Apple earbuds/earPods are covered under Apple care. So, you have a year from the purchase of your device to replace your headphones if they become damaged or, 2 years if you payed to extend Apple care. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 25, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Craig Werner coffeeb...@gmail.com wrote: If one uses one's pocket to carry small headphones, enclosing them in the smallest possible zip lock bag is a good idea. To avoid kinking and crimping of the cable, just be careful to wind the cord loosely before inserting it into the bag. Craig On 5/25/13, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote: I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail
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Yeah, a geeky sighted friend's wife, who isn't geeky, gives him a hard time for his bluetooth earpiece as well. They are not fashionably stylish. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 27/05/2013, at 6:49, Andy Baracco w...@socal.rr.com wrote: My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -Original Message- From: Sandy Finley Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side
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I always carry my apple head phones with me. I prefer to use them when I'm out so no one knows what I'm doing. Margaret On 25/05/2013, at 2:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I also carry my iPhone's ear buds in my fanny pack. (yes, I am one of those guys ) alone with my stereo blue tooth ear buds. I use them on airplanes and at audio assisted ATM's. Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors. On May 24, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Margaret Booth margaretebo...@gmail.com wrote: I always carry my apple head phones with me. I prefer to use them when I'm out so no one knows what I'm doing. Margaret On 25/05/2013, at 2:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I use my Aftershokz bone conduction headset as I can't stand having my ears blocked with earbuds. I don't feel safe if I can't hear my environment. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi, I would like to point out 1 thing. Apple headphones are definitely not inconspicuous . Those white headphones are like a lighthouse to a ship on a stormy night. haha. 1 glance, and people will assume your using an Apple product of some kind. In some instances, this can even put ones safety in jeopardy. I agree though, using wired headphones do have some definite advantages over a BT model, and I do get your point. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 25, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group
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When out, I use a tiny Jabra Bluetooth headset in one ear. It fits into the outer part of my ear, so I can still hear what's around me. People don't notice that I have it on, and I forget as well. The typing delay is almost not noticeable. Lois -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi Brice, I keep a set of Apple Ear Pods in my purse. I usually just use the phone's speaker when doing something simple and quick but if I need privacy or the environment is not conducive to that then I'll either use one Ear Pod or both, depending on what I'm doing. When I'm done I just put the Pods and / or phone back in my purse and that's that. :) HTH -Great question / topic! Cara :) On May 24, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Brice Smith brsmith2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi, I usually just hold the phone fairly close to my face but slightly off center so that it's near one of my ears; that way I can here voiceover just about well enough to type without it looking overly unnormal. Alternately, if I just want to read a notification or a text, I just turn the volume up slightly and don't even bother taking it out of my pocket. Cheers, Ben. On 5/25/13, Cara Quinn modelc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brice, I keep a set of Apple Ear Pods in my purse. I usually just use the phone's speaker when doing something simple and quick but if I need privacy or the environment is not conducive to that then I'll either use one Ear Pod or both, depending on what I'm doing. When I'm done I just put the Pods and / or phone back in my purse and that's that. :) HTH -Great question / topic! Cara :) On May 24, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Brice Smith brsmith2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send
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I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe
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If one uses one's pocket to carry small headphones, enclosing them in the smallest possible zip lock bag is a good idea. To avoid kinking and crimping of the cable, just be careful to wind the cord loosely before inserting it into the bag. Craig On 5/25/13, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote: I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone
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Okay okay, your message below made me laugh. You say that you don't want to look like a nerd with a Bluetooth headset on your ear yet aren't you looking like a nerd with the earbuds around your neck with one in your ear and one hanging around? It just presented a funny image to me is all. That's like a parent going up to a child and smacking him because he was hitting his friend. And as he smacks the child he says, we don't hit. --- Sent from Raul's iPhone - (832) 554-7285. Please excuse any dictation or auto complete errors. On May 24, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http
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I place my Apple earbuds into an enty metal breath mint container. I have also used empty prescription containers. With these other items in my pocket won't damage the earbuds. Donna If one uses one's pocket to carry small headphones, enclosing them in the smallest possible zip lock bag is a good idea. To avoid kinking and crimping of the cable, just be careful to wind the cord loosely before inserting it into the bag. Craig On 5/25/13, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote: I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http
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Hi, I don't have a bluetooth earpiece, but I do use ear buds or my Apple earpods when I'm in a noisy place or want some privacy. Otherwise, I just crank the thing up, let it say what it wants to say and go on about my business. I don't worry too much about what people think about the VoiceOver chatter. It's been my experience so far that if anybody's curious about it, I'll be happy to answer any questions, or, if anyone's bothered by it I'll use the earbuds. Tom - Original Message - From: Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:31 PM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover I usually just use my Apple ear buds, but occasionally I'll just crank up the volume of my iPhone and use the built in speakers. I usually use the ear bugs to help me hear VoiceOver better or so as just not to distract those around me. I very seldom worry about privacy, since I'm usually not doing something terribly private when I'm in public, and between the speech rate and jumping around on the screen, I don't figure too many people around me are going to pick up much. If I'm in a particularly loud place, and I don't need to worry too much about hearing something in my surroundings, I will pull out some 3rd party in the ear buds I have which provide a lot more passive noise cancellation than you get from just the Apple ear buds. On 05/24/2013 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send
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Made me chuckle also. A bluetooth ear piece looks exactly like a hearing aid. So in my opinion, this would be less noticable or questionable when out and about, where having one part of a pair of earphones dangling would definately draw attention from people. Donna Okay okay, your message below made me laugh. You say that you don't want to look like a nerd with a Bluetooth headset on your ear yet aren't you looking like a nerd with the earbuds around your neck with one in your ear and one hanging around? It just presented a funny image to me is all. That's like a parent going up to a child and smacking him because he was hitting his friend. And as he smacks the child he says, we don't hit. --- Sent from Raul's iPhone - (832) 554-7285. Please excuse any dictation or auto complete errors. On May 24, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone
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Hi, To keep the cables or connectors from getting damaged, I usually carry my earbuds or earpods around in a small Ziploc baggie so they won't get tangled up with my keys, nail clipper or any other paraphernalia I might carry in my pants pocket. . Tom - Original Message - From: Arnold Schmidt arno...@mindspring.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 6:18 AM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http
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My wife made me a handy carrying case with a strap so I can carry my iPod Touch or an iPhone over my shoulder, and the case has a pocket for the ear pods. It means I don't have to dig anything out of any pockets, it just hangs at my side so I can grab it whenever I want. Richard (Sent from Richard's iPod Touch 5th gen) On May 25, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Tom Lange lang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, To keep the cables or connectors from getting damaged, I usually carry my earbuds or earpods around in a small Ziploc baggie so they won't get tangled up with my keys, nail clipper or any other paraphernalia I might carry in my pants pocket. . Tom - Original Message - From: Arnold Schmidt arno...@mindspring.com To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 6:18 AM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group
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Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an Android phone. Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent which holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good with not running out of juice if I'm around places I can't connect to a wall. Lastly, if I don't have all my gadgets with me, I will hold the phone close to my ear like I'm making a phone call and tap away that way. We live in a sighted world and so I try to not appear to be socially inept, however many sighted people do worse things, and we just don't know about them because we can't see them. So, that helps me not worry too much. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Immature: A word boring people use to describe fun people. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/24/2013 11:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hello All, When out I have the volume loud enough so that I can hear my phone but not overly loud. I also hold it off center and more than likely closer than the average sighted person does. Also there are times I use a magnifier and actually look at my phone, and yes I know this looks different, as I've seen others who have low vision do this and I figure if someone sighted wants to ask, then they can .. but in public I have my cane as well, so I figure they probably know I don't see well! LOL I do carry my apple earbuds with me for when it's too loud and I don't want to use a magnifier as Voice over is really more efficient for me to do things with for longer periods of time. And yes I know that theres zoom on my phone, but I have to have that zoomed in so much that thats very inefficient for me to use at all. Katey Sent from my iPad On May 25, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an Android phone. Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent which holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good with not running out of juice if I'm around places I can't connect to a wall. Lastly, if I don't have all my gadgets with me, I will hold the phone close to my ear like I'm making a phone call and tap away that way. We live in a sighted world and so I try to not appear to be socially inept, however many sighted people do worse things, and we just don't know about them because we can't see them. So, that helps me not worry too much. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Immature: A word boring people use to describe fun people. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/24/2013 11:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search
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Hello, For those who didn't already know, your Apple earbuds/earPods are covered under Apple care. So, you have a year from the purchase of your device to replace your headphones if they become damaged or, 2 years if you payed to extend Apple care. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 25, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Craig Werner coffeeb...@gmail.com wrote: If one uses one's pocket to carry small headphones, enclosing them in the smallest possible zip lock bag is a good idea. To avoid kinking and crimping of the cable, just be careful to wind the cord loosely before inserting it into the bag. Craig On 5/25/13, Christopher Chaltain chalt...@gmail.com wrote: I keep mine in my pocket when I'm out and about. I'll pull them out of my pocket and leave them on a table if I'm at home or in the office. My pockets are fairly capacious, and I don't worry about their durability at all keeping them in my pocket like I do. On 05/25/2013 08:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com
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I agree. Andy -Original Message- From: Anne Robertson Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:50 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover I use my Aftershokz bone conduction headset as I can't stand having my ears blocked with earbuds. I don't feel safe if I can't hear my environment. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. I'm not wearing a diaper, so don't try to change me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I use the pods when I am on a long bus ride, or somewhere where I'm not actually walking on the street. I use the Aftershokz if I am on a short bus ride, or actually walking. Andy -Original Message- From: Cara Quinn Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 1:31 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, I keep a set of Apple Ear Pods in my purse. I usually just use the phone's speaker when doing something simple and quick but if I need privacy or the environment is not conducive to that then I'll either use one Ear Pod or both, depending on what I'm doing. When I'm done I just put the Pods and / or phone back in my purse and that's that. :) HTH -Great question / topic! Cara :) On May 24, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Brice Smith brsmith2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. I'm not wearing a diaper, so don't try to change me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi Raul, Maybe, but the way I do this you typically can't see the left earbud which is hanging around my neck inside my shirt collar. I do admit that in the summer if I only wear a T-Shirt you can see the cable more, but since where I live you have to wear some sort of second layer for probably 7 months out of the year and then it is very inconspicuous. Anyhow, I did say this was my thought and it's not as if I have to have the earpiece in my ear all the time. My Jabra Supreme is not the smallest, but I do like the fact that it folds and by folding the microphone boom you turn it on/off. I never have to worry that I forget to turn it off and use up the battery and I can take this thing out of my pocket, unfold it and put it on my ear by the third ring. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Okay okay, your message below made me laugh. You say that you don't want to look like a nerd with a Bluetooth headset on your ear yet aren't you looking like a nerd with the earbuds around your neck with one in your ear and one hanging around? It just presented a funny image to me is all. That's like a parent going up to a child and smacking him because he was hitting his friend. And as he smacks the child he says, we don't hit. --- Sent from Raul's iPhone - (832) 554-7285. Please excuse any dictation or auto complete errors. On May 24, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group
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Hi Sieghard. Fair enough. I also hope you knew I was mainly teasing you. The bottom line is that no matter what each of us do, blind or sighted, to some we will look like nerds or freaks. What I like seeing is a sweet little 85 year old lady texting and talking on her bluetooth headset. Now, that's a wonderful thing. -- Raul A. Gallegos 2013 is the first year since 1432 where you can rearrange the numbers to be a counting number sequence. 1432 = 1234...2013 = 0123. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/25/2013 4:06 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hi Raul, Maybe, but the way I do this you typically can't see the left earbud which is hanging around my neck inside my shirt collar. I do admit that in the summer if I only wear a T-Shirt you can see the cable more, but since where I live you have to wear some sort of second layer for probably 7 months out of the year and then it is very inconspicuous. Anyhow, I did say this was my thought and it's not as if I have to have the earpiece in my ear all the time. My Jabra Supreme is not the smallest, but I do like the fact that it folds and by folding the microphone boom you turn it on/off. I never have to worry that I forget to turn it off and use up the battery and I can take this thing out of my pocket, unfold it and put it on my ear by the third ring. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Okay okay, your message below made me laugh. You say that you don't want to look like a nerd with a Bluetooth headset on your ear yet aren't you looking like a nerd with the earbuds around your neck with one in your ear and one hanging around? It just presented a funny image to me is all. That's like a parent going up to a child and smacking him because he was hitting his friend. And as he smacks the child he says, we don't hit. --- Sent from Raul's iPhone - (832) 554-7285. Please excuse any dictation or auto complete errors. On May 24, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr
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I use a single ear wired headset when using the phone in public where I need to listen to what's going on around me. Otherwise, I use the earpods that came with my iPhone 5. Alan Lemly -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 11:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I think he means his shirt pocket. I do the same thing. Sent from my Verizon iPhone 5! On May 25, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Arnold Schmidt arno...@mindspring.com wrote: You say you put them in your pocket. I would think it would greatly shorten their life to be in my pocket a lot, with my getting up, sitting down, and other movements throughout the day not only stressing the ear bud and plug connections, but also the remote. Or, are they more durable than I suspect? Arnold Schmidt - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:13 AM Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr
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Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an Android phone. Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent which holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good with not running out of juice if I'm around places I can't connect to a wall. Lastly, if I don't have all my gadgets with me, I will hold the phone close to my ear like I'm making a phone call and tap away that way. We live in a sighted world and so I try to not appear to be socially inept, however many sighted people do worse things, and we just don't know about them because we can't see them. So, that helps me not worry too much. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Immature: A word boring people use to describe fun people. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/24/2013 11:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone -- I certainly knew there wasn't necessarily a one size fits all answer, but it's good to hear what works for some of you and what doesn't for others. Maybe certain bluetooth pieces work better than others to reduce lag? I bought a pair to use while working out, but I can't imagine using it every day because the lag is distracting. Whatever the case, I've also thought about buying a cheap pair of earbuds and snapping off one of the wires, so I would only have one simple wire to deal with and nothing else hanging from my neck. Thanks again, Brice On 5/25/13, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http
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Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away. This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com wrote: Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung HM1700 and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about that one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but at the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case I need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either use the Motorola S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great range, and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a slightly annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth headsets have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and the HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all going to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an Android phone. Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent which holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good with not running out of juice if I'm around places I can't connect to a wall. Lastly, if I don't have all my gadgets with me, I will hold the phone close to my ear like I'm making a phone call and tap away that way. We live in a sighted world and so I try to not appear to be socially inept, however many sighted people do worse things, and we just don't know about them because we can't see them. So, that helps me not worry too much. Hope that helps. -- Raul A. Gallegos Immature: A word boring people use to describe fun people. - Sheldon Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 5/24/2013 11:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What
Listening to Voiceover
Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I use the Plantronics M fifty blue tooth headset. I wear it all the time, so much I forget to take it off when going through air port security. Works for me! Chuck (mobile) Pleez x cuze any tie ping or spelin airors. On May 24, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Brice Smith brsmith2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi, When out and about, I usually use my bluetooth earpiece. For me, it makes using hearing Voiceover much easier in noisy environments. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On May 24, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Brice Smith brsmith2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
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I usually just use my Apple ear buds, but occasionally I'll just crank up the volume of my iPhone and use the built in speakers. I usually use the ear bugs to help me hear VoiceOver better or so as just not to distract those around me. I very seldom worry about privacy, since I'm usually not doing something terribly private when I'm in public, and between the speech rate and jumping around on the screen, I don't figure too many people around me are going to pick up much. If I'm in a particularly loud place, and I don't need to worry too much about hearing something in my surroundings, I will pull out some 3rd party in the ear buds I have which provide a lot more passive noise cancellation than you get from just the Apple ear buds. On 05/24/2013 11:13 PM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote: Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy. I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover Hi, I'm curious to know how you all listen and use your phones when you're out in public. Do you use earbuds and an earpiece, or do you turn the speech down low and do your best? In noisy environments most people can just look down at their phones. If you use speech, you want to be able to hear the speech without everyone else hearing it or becoming distracted by it, too. Sometimes I'll just hold the phone up toward my shoulder/ear and type/text so I can keep the volume down real low for privacy, but this looks really odd and unprofessional. I've thought about grabbing an earpiece or earbuds, but I usually forget, or it's just something else to charge and keep track of. What works for you? Brice -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the VIPhone Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
