Hi Brice, As Chuck and Richard already pointed out, a Bluetooth earpiece is one solution. But as you say, it is another item you have to make sure is charged up and I personally don't like it if I have to do any amount of typing. I do own one and use it at times, but first of all I feel I look like a nurd (no offense to anybody who wears it all day) and I just don't like the small lag when I am typing, it makes typing on the virtual keyboard even slower as it is. There is also a third reason why I don't want to have it in all day and that is the fact that nobody really knows if it is all that healthy.
I very much prefer the Apple earpods, they are less conspicuous and even lighter than even the lightest Bluetooth earpiece. Depending on where I am and what I am doing I often just have the right one in my ear since it has the microphone and remote and I just have the left one hanging around my neck. It's become total habit for me to grab them in the morning, wrap them around my hand and put them in my pocket. In short, if you are in public and you don't want anybody to hear your phone a headset or earpiece of some sort is your only option. I personally wouldn't be too worried about people listening to a text message I might type, somebody really would have to pay attention to put together what you are typing if they hear a letter at a time, but of course if it's noisy a headset really is the way to go and it has the additional benefit that you can keep your phone on your belt or in your pocket when a call comes in. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:29 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Listening to Voiceover 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.