Fortunately in South Africa we have slightly less foreign habit. The phone is held as in Diag.2 (speaking into the mic) but a little further away. That's it (The sound comes out down there too, when in "speaker" phone mode).
Fortunately (or unfortunately 🤷♂️) this is only done when an approximation of "hands free" is required, such as when operating earthmoving machinery (or driving in traffic, you know how it goes). Kind of a dead giveaway to the cops who if they spot you will confiscate the phone for minimum 24 hrs and fine you the equivalent of £100, half of which is the impound release fee.
Superb. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this. One advantage of “The Dabbsy” is that with suitable application of force the content received audibly can be sent back into a more suitable location - aka “talking shit”.
The trouble with "smartphones" is, that they are quite unsuited for making actual phone calls. Especially if they are equipped with a touchscreen that is active and have some active hangup GUI item while conversing with the phone clamped in an awkward grip around the too wide edges to the cheek. That is one of the reasons why I kept a simple dumbphone for actually talking to other people for a very long time, until it became difficult to get a decent replacement. That is, until I no longer had a working installation of Motorola hacker tools anywhere on a 32bit Windows XP box to update the crappy firmware version you normally get with the average overpriced refurbished/counterfeit Razr 3 to be found nowadays. For a while I switched over to a Siemens C35 which can be restacked with standard AAA format NiMh cells, but it has some problems with 16bit SMS message contents, such as flight schedule/gate updates sent by some airlines, which it displays @v@e@r@y@ @b@a@d@l@y. So I gave up on that after a while and now use my 2FA authentication device also for talking, with a bluetooth headset connected, if it can't be avoided by simply not talking to people - that is why I only use it at home and almost never take it with me when I leave the house. Unless of course, I need a map or know that I need to contact someone or want to blend in with the smartphone zombies in the subway so they don't start to shriek...
I see a fair few people walking along while having a video call on speakerphone. Perhaps Dabbsy Developments can market a hat that has two arms for holding your phone in the right location but keeping your hands free?
On the subject of phone weirdness, recently I read of the idea that rather than moving your finger over the surface of the screen to scroll or whatever, you should instead hold your finger stationary ... and move the phone underneath it :-)
Honestly Dabbsy, I think the horizontal phone practice probably started with someone concerned with the amount of radiation his/her brain was receiving. Other, already brain-dead observers, just thought it was a cool affectation.
It's to protect themselves from 5G activated vaccine death.
Or getting burnt? On a fire training course last week (AKA The Anyone-Want-To-Let-Off-Fire-Extinguishers-Without-Getting-Fired workshop) the pompier informed us that the vast majority of home fires are caused by phones. (Albiet mostly when on charge.)
I'm reminded of when the staid parlor game known as Ping-Pong escaped its bounds, reinvented itself as Table Tennis, and hit the Far East, whose denizens immediately decided that the bat reminded them of a pen, and started wielding it upside down. The fact that this confined them to using only one side did not seem to be a problem; in fact they went on to dominate the sport for decades.
So perhaps the infamous pen-hold grip is even yet waiting its turn, as a few street wise urchins in Chiba or Shanghai refine it with their phones before making it famous worldwide via manga or Yakuza films.
Today I read two articles referencing the kinks in the Neobakelite (great word) era telephone cables. Apparently they are topological solitons. Who knew?
The public transport bit is the one that gets to me. Although to be fair, when I've had to pull out the music player just to cover up external noise, it's more likely to be loud in-person argument that I'm trying to block out than people on their phones.
The worst, though, is when you do already have your music going, but someone else is blasting theirs so loud that their music is louder than the music that's playing INSIDE YOUR EARS. I've had that happen, too
Loved the "plastic club" telephone. Kept me employed for nearly 47 years! GPO to Post Office telephones to BT and then Open reach. Big cheers for Bakelite and plastic (and the curly cords!)
Those across the pond must use their phones like this too, see it all the time in TV shows. In days gone by I used to like HTC's S730 and S740 phones, they weren't touchscreen but had a numeric keypad as well as a full QWERTY slide out keyboard and were great for the amount of time I spent in those days selecting options in IVRs, before HP decided that you had to say "Proliant running Windows" in a voice that sounded like a WW2 radio announcer as they didn't like Scottish accents.
Also waiting for Blondie recording a sequel to "Hanging on the Telephone" called "Why haven't you slid in to my DMs?" or something like that.
Fortunately in South Africa we have slightly less foreign habit. The phone is held as in Diag.2 (speaking into the mic) but a little further away. That's it (The sound comes out down there too, when in "speaker" phone mode).
Fortunately (or unfortunately 🤷♂️) this is only done when an approximation of "hands free" is required, such as when operating earthmoving machinery (or driving in traffic, you know how it goes). Kind of a dead giveaway to the cops who if they spot you will confiscate the phone for minimum 24 hrs and fine you the equivalent of £100, half of which is the impound release fee.
Superb. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks like this. One advantage of “The Dabbsy” is that with suitable application of force the content received audibly can be sent back into a more suitable location - aka “talking shit”.
The trouble with "smartphones" is, that they are quite unsuited for making actual phone calls. Especially if they are equipped with a touchscreen that is active and have some active hangup GUI item while conversing with the phone clamped in an awkward grip around the too wide edges to the cheek. That is one of the reasons why I kept a simple dumbphone for actually talking to other people for a very long time, until it became difficult to get a decent replacement. That is, until I no longer had a working installation of Motorola hacker tools anywhere on a 32bit Windows XP box to update the crappy firmware version you normally get with the average overpriced refurbished/counterfeit Razr 3 to be found nowadays. For a while I switched over to a Siemens C35 which can be restacked with standard AAA format NiMh cells, but it has some problems with 16bit SMS message contents, such as flight schedule/gate updates sent by some airlines, which it displays @v@e@r@y@ @b@a@d@l@y. So I gave up on that after a while and now use my 2FA authentication device also for talking, with a bluetooth headset connected, if it can't be avoided by simply not talking to people - that is why I only use it at home and almost never take it with me when I leave the house. Unless of course, I need a map or know that I need to contact someone or want to blend in with the smartphone zombies in the subway so they don't start to shriek...
I see a fair few people walking along while having a video call on speakerphone. Perhaps Dabbsy Developments can market a hat that has two arms for holding your phone in the right location but keeping your hands free?
"Europeans interact with their tech gadgets in ways that can only be described as "foreign"."
Such a momentous observation that defies explanation but defines a certain je ne said quoi.
The 'pizza-bite' method of using a phone (as a phone) is only confirmation of those who don't know their arse from their elbow or mouth.
On the subject of phone weirdness, recently I read of the idea that rather than moving your finger over the surface of the screen to scroll or whatever, you should instead hold your finger stationary ... and move the phone underneath it :-)
Honestly Dabbsy, I think the horizontal phone practice probably started with someone concerned with the amount of radiation his/her brain was receiving. Other, already brain-dead observers, just thought it was a cool affectation.
It's to protect themselves from 5G activated vaccine death.
Or getting burnt? On a fire training course last week (AKA The Anyone-Want-To-Let-Off-Fire-Extinguishers-Without-Getting-Fired workshop) the pompier informed us that the vast majority of home fires are caused by phones. (Albiet mostly when on charge.)
TIL I look forward to "Doin' The Dabbsy" on Friday.
And since I'm old, obviously decrepit, and use a desktop computer I better get me some lube.
I'm reminded of when the staid parlor game known as Ping-Pong escaped its bounds, reinvented itself as Table Tennis, and hit the Far East, whose denizens immediately decided that the bat reminded them of a pen, and started wielding it upside down. The fact that this confined them to using only one side did not seem to be a problem; in fact they went on to dominate the sport for decades.
So perhaps the infamous pen-hold grip is even yet waiting its turn, as a few street wise urchins in Chiba or Shanghai refine it with their phones before making it famous worldwide via manga or Yakuza films.
Today I read two articles referencing the kinks in the Neobakelite (great word) era telephone cables. Apparently they are topological solitons. Who knew?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240320122615.htm
Thought it was quite interesting, but can't think of a way to make it amusing.
Ah, so it's the Europeans who are to blame then?
I always thought it was the useless fuckers on The Apprentice that triggered this epidemic.
The public transport bit is the one that gets to me. Although to be fair, when I've had to pull out the music player just to cover up external noise, it's more likely to be loud in-person argument that I'm trying to block out than people on their phones.
The worst, though, is when you do already have your music going, but someone else is blasting theirs so loud that their music is louder than the music that's playing INSIDE YOUR EARS. I've had that happen, too
Loved the "plastic club" telephone. Kept me employed for nearly 47 years! GPO to Post Office telephones to BT and then Open reach. Big cheers for Bakelite and plastic (and the curly cords!)
Those across the pond must use their phones like this too, see it all the time in TV shows. In days gone by I used to like HTC's S730 and S740 phones, they weren't touchscreen but had a numeric keypad as well as a full QWERTY slide out keyboard and were great for the amount of time I spent in those days selecting options in IVRs, before HP decided that you had to say "Proliant running Windows" in a voice that sounded like a WW2 radio announcer as they didn't like Scottish accents.
Also waiting for Blondie recording a sequel to "Hanging on the Telephone" called "Why haven't you slid in to my DMs?" or something like that.
Back in my days at Nokia we took a lot of stick for "N-Gage Sidetalking". Turns out we were just waaay ahead of the curve.