• corsicanguppy
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    2 days ago

    Take your phone off speaker phone.

    Kids and idiots base their phone usage off vapid camera-ready idiots on reality TV whose entire usage is to play for an audience. They don’t understand that holding their phone like a slice of pizza

    • is against the design
    • makes it harder to hear
    • ruins the noise cancellation
    • looks absolutely ridiculous
    • may be delicious. Try it!

    And so it’s “monkey see, monkey do.”

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      2 days ago

      I’m Norwegian, and travelled to the US in 2004. I remember people on the bus using their phones like this. On public transport. Never saw that in Norway back then.

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      2 days ago

      I don’t know about this. In my experience, the speakerphone speaker is way higher quality and easier to hear than the normal phone one. I just don’t make phone calls

      • mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space
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        I need the max call volume to be about 20% higher than it currently is to understand what is being said outside of an anechoic chamber.

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      The harder to hear might be true for the people they are talking to. But for the one holding the phone that we are talking about it is actually easier because of how the speakers are aimed. Personal experience on this.

      But if they would take it off speakerphone then the speaker is at their ear.