Horizontal phone speaking - when did the rot set in?

[Pixelpeep 135]

It seems everywhere i go people are talking into the bottom of their phones, rather than the traditional method of to the ear and mouth simultaneously.

You then see them struggle to hear the reply so they put the same horizonal phone to their ear... to get closer to the speaker.

YOU fkING THICK PLANK OF A COCKSOCKET wkBRACKET! - if you held the phone how you were supposed to you'd have speakers and mikes right next to ears and mouths.

Is there ANY reason for these S to be doing this, other than because they've seen someone else and thought it looked cool/was the proper way?

what am i missing?!

[Megaflow]

Not a clue. It is the people on the other end of the phone I feel sorry for, they are probably unaware the conversation they having is being blasted out in public.

Some tool was doing exactly this is the mass of people walking from the car park’s to the NEC Show at the weekend.

[Al Gorithum]

I do that all the time. Sorry. Phone on desk whilst working using both hands.

[Bannock]

I am in no way defending this behaviour, but it is the case that if a conversation goes on for more than a few minutes the phone can get quite hot, and it's not very comfortable on your ear. At least that's what I find. However, I wouldn't use a phone like this in a public area.

The rot set in when people started seeing people doing this on "The Apprentice", so that the conversations could be picked up by the TV sound equipment. Then attention seekers started copying the behaviour, as it gave them an opportunity to sonically spread themselves over a far wider area than would otherwise be the case, thereby garnering the attention of strangers. Dominating the (st)air(s), as it were.

[HorneyMX5]

Blame shows like the apprentice. They do it so that crew can capture both sides of the conversation. Idiots copy the people on tv.

[Crook]

Pizza phone = idiots

Also,

Pizza phone (can) = broken phone mic / speaker

[bigpriest]

I'm sure The Apprentice edits in other sounds (like the pretend phone conversations at 4 in the morning) so I'm not sure the chin extension technique is for audio purposes.

[-crookedtail-]

ok boomer

I jest of course but I think they're actually leaving voice notes, so don't need to hear anyone. Nobody wants to actually talk to another person on the phone these days...' oh hell naw'!!!

Edited by -crookedtail- on Monday 14th November 15:40

[Doofus]

I watch a bloke the other day using his phone on speaker. He held it horizontally, but with the speaker (on the bottom edge of the phone) to his ear. Consequently he was having to shout in order to make himself heard.

I did my usual passive-aggressive thing of saying to my dog "Look at that fking tt. He's a proper fkwit, isn't he?"

[sherman]

Al Gorithum said:

I do that all the time. Sorry. Phone on desk whilst working using both hands.

Thats slightly different than walking down the street holding your phone out from your chin.

[Megaflow]

sherman said:

Al Gorithum said:

I do that all the time. Sorry. Phone on desk whilst working using both hands.

Thats slightly different than walking down the street holding your phone out from your chin.

On the assumption he is not doing it an office with other people, then yes, entirely different to doing it in the middle of the street.

[Roofless Toothless]

I don't own a mobile phone, but I was talking about this with my son just the other day. He is mystified too, but suggested it may be that people think the radio waves are going to fry their brains if they clamp the phone to their ear.

[Al Gorithum]

Megaflow said:

sherman said:

Al Gorithum said:

I do that all the time. Sorry. Phone on desk whilst working using both hands.

Thats slightly different than walking down the street holding your phone out from your chin.

On the assumption he is not doing it an office with other people, then yes, entirely different to doing it in the middle of the street.

I work alone. Nobody likes me. I don't blame them

[gotoPzero]

In the US people seem to prefer to use speaker phone all the time. Was in a tmobile store yesterday and one of the sales people had to call their customer support and did the entire call on speaker. Very strange.

In South America it seems video call on WhatsApp is a totally normal way of calling someone.

[anonymous-user]

Ryvita mode.

[Blib]

He started it, back in the 60s.

[Doofus]

gotoPzero said:

In the US people seem to prefer to use speaker phone all the time. Was in a tmobile store yesterday and one of the sales people had to call their customer support and did the entire call on speaker. Very strange.

In the US, many cell phones have had PTT fuctionality since the early 2000's. For lots of people using the phone on speaker is part of that habit.

[Skyedriver]

HorneyMX5 said:

Blame shows like the apprentice. They do it so that crew can capture both sides of the conversation. Idiots copy the people on tv.

First saw this on Locationx3 with Kirsty Allslop

[964Cup]

For some reason, like the OP it appears, this fills me with inexplicable rage. All that time designing mike and speaker placement, and doing clever software filtering, and these idiots hold the thing horizontally in the general vicinity of their chin and yell into it - on the bus, or walking down the pavement, or doing that weird Russian squatting deal. Something should be done.

[Milkyway]