Comments on: Why Do People Feel the Need to Shout Into Their Cell Phone? http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:13:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gnorb http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone#comment-56327 Gnorb Fri, 11 May 2007 19:19:29 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20070510/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone/#comment-56327 @Melissa: You gotta wonder, with everything people are putting to their ears these days -- cell phones, ear buds, the eternal misplaced Qtip -- where will hearing aid technology be in 30 years? - @Larry: I can see that having been a problem in the early days of cell phones, where companies charged a dollar a minute and you had to carry a backpack for the battery, but in the newer cell phones I don't see battery drainage caused by speaker volume as being much of a problem. Could it be that people (or designers) are just going on habit, yelling into their new phone because their old phones were too quiet, or designing phones with quieter ear pieces because that's just the way things have been done? (And then adding video games which use up most of the processing power and kill the battery.) - Thanks for the thoughtful response! @Melissa: You gotta wonder, with everything people are putting to their ears these days — cell phones, ear buds, the eternal misplaced Qtip — where will hearing aid technology be in 30 years?
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@Larry: I can see that having been a problem in the early days of cell phones, where companies charged a dollar a minute and you had to carry a backpack for the battery, but in the newer cell phones I don’t see battery drainage caused by speaker volume as being much of a problem. Could it be that people (or designers) are just going on habit, yelling into their new phone because their old phones were too quiet, or designing phones with quieter ear pieces because that’s just the way things have been done? (And then adding video games which use up most of the processing power and kill the battery.)
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Thanks for the thoughtful response!

]]> By: Larry Rueff http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone#comment-56304 Larry Rueff Fri, 11 May 2007 14:08:11 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20070510/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone/#comment-56304 Manufacturers of cell phones design their phones to be as enery efficient as possible, and one of the things they do to save battery power is reduce the sound of the users voice in his own earpiece. This causes him to talk louder than he would on a land line telephone.--Larry Rueff Manufacturers of cell phones design their phones to be as enery efficient as possible, and one of the things they do to save battery power is reduce the sound of the users voice in his own earpiece. This causes him to talk louder than he would on a land line telephone.–Larry Rueff

]]> By: Melissa R. Garrett http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone#comment-56302 Melissa R. Garrett Fri, 11 May 2007 12:27:31 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20070510/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone/#comment-56302 Living in a college town, I am all too familiar with this. When the "kids" graduate and go home for the summer, the absence of cell-phone chatter will be eery. Living in a college town, I am all too familiar with this. When the “kids” graduate and go home for the summer, the absence of cell-phone chatter will be eery.

]]> By: eric http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone#comment-56178 eric Thu, 10 May 2007 14:44:17 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20070510/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone/#comment-56178 i myself have yelled into a cell phone i dont know why i did it i guess i thought if i yelled i could hear the other person better =] i myself have yelled into a cell phone i dont know why i did it i guess i thought if i yelled i could hear the other person better =]

]]> By: Gnorb http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone#comment-56175 Gnorb Thu, 10 May 2007 14:27:32 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20070510/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone/#comment-56175 You may want to read <a href="http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20060116/great-sound-system-crappy-car/" rel="nofollow">this</a> (regarding car stereos). I know exactly what you mean, since it's so painfully rampant down here. It's like they're not happy just putting themselves through the pain they call music, but instead feel it their duty to make sure we all suffer along. You may want to read this (regarding car stereos). I know exactly what you mean, since it’s so painfully rampant down here. It’s like they’re not happy just putting themselves through the pain they call music, but instead feel it their duty to make sure we all suffer along.

]]> By: pelf http://www.gnorb.net/824/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone#comment-56172 pelf Thu, 10 May 2007 13:42:04 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/observations/20070510/why-do-people-feel-the-need-to-shout-into-their-cell-phone/#comment-56172 You overheard someone's conversation TWO CARS AWAY?! That's ridiculous! :) I've never seen people who speak very loudly on the phone, but what I don't understand is why some people blast their car radio to the max. I mean, don't they feel the pain in their ears? I've heard somebody's radio two cars away, and I had all my windows wound up!! You overheard someone’s conversation TWO CARS AWAY?! That’s ridiculous! :)

I’ve never seen people who speak very loudly on the phone, but what I don’t understand is why some people blast their car radio to the max. I mean, don’t they feel the pain in their ears? I’ve heard somebody’s radio two cars away, and I had all my windows wound up!!

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