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 <[email protected]> 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/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. > 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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