I was dictating quietly to my IPhone yesterday when I was in the dentist's office. My boyfriend said people were starig at me. I figured too bad. I hear people talking on their phones all the time. I just happen to be talking to mie. LOL Tina ********************************************************************** Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. -- 1 John 3:18
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Baracco" <w...@socal.rr.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:49 PM Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover My wife really gives me a bad time when I wear a headset in public, saying that it is really inappropriate, and calls attention to my blindness, as if the cane doesn't, and I can't believe that she doesn't notice all of the people who use their cell phones everywhere. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Sandy Finley Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 4:44 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Bryce, your colleague was way out of line. I just asked my sighted husband about it and he made the following observation Sighted people are seen constantly holding the phone up to one ear while using the other hand to write with a pen. Maybe they are taking notes on the phone call; maybe writing a grocery list. Why would what you are doing look any weirder? My personal preference is to plug in the iPhone ear buds and put one in one ear and listen to what I am typing. Butt's not because of appearance, it's because of preference. Sieghard makes a great point about a bllind person tapping along with a white cane or having a dog lying under the table;... Your colleague eeds to take a hike. Sandy ----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:26 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Listening to Voiceover Hi Bryce, Also keep in mind that just because one colleague thinks it looks weird and unprofessional it doesn't mean everybody thinks that. It may also look unprofessional in certain situations to try and find your way around by tapping along with a white cane or at least some may say that it is. In any case, whether it is or isn't is in my opinion beyond the point, you do what you have to do. I prefer a headset but if I didn't have one and had to type a message I'd have no problems holding the phone in whichever way allows me to do so. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brice Smith Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:33 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Listening to Voiceover Thanks, Raul. You touch on the reason I started this; the whole "holding the phone up close to the ear and tapping away." This is what I've naturally preferred, but a colleague pointed out how weird and unprofessional it looks. It's not something I had thought about before and I was kind of caught off guard. It does make sense how odd it probably looks to hold a phone up chest level or next to your cheek or ear and type, though. I do not have hearing problems at all. Still, at least for me, I've got to have the voice near my ear when typing because when using touch typing it can be difficult to really hear Samantha in a lot of environments without turning the volume up. These are the only times I wish the iPhone had a physical keyboard. Finally, the speakers on the iPhone 4s are kind of bad, anyway. When I was using a Mophie Battery Juice case the speakers faced up which made the sound clearer. Just some observations. Brice On 5/25/13, Raul A. Gallegos <r...@raulgallegos.com> wrote: > Hi, to add to this discussion what I do is use a single-ear headset > like the Plantronics M50. I just recently purchased the Samsung > HM1700 > and am liking the volume on it better than the M50, but I haven't > found a comfortable fit for it yet. So, still on the fence about > that > one. I find that the single-ear headset is good for me because I can > pull it out right away if I need total hearing with both ears, but > at > the same time it's not jammed in my ear totally covering it in case > I > need it either. For phone calls the M50 sucks in my opinion, but for > all the other pros it offers I still think it's the best single-ear > headset. If I need something covering both of my ears I will either > use the Motorola > S11 headset which wraps around the back of your neck, has great > range, > and has great sound with playing music in both ears. It has a > slightly > annoying delay which I'm not too proud of, but all Bluetooth > headsets > have this delay. Some are just worse than others though. The M50 and > the > HM1700 are ok, but the S11 isn't the best. > > I try to avoid using wired connections because I like all that > radiation flowing through my skull and because since we are all > going > to die some day, why not die cord free and happy? I don't have Apple > earpods, and I'm not sure if I will get them since I have a bit of > choice of things already. yes it's more to charge, but I also have a > 3-in-1 charger usb cable with the standard usb end on one side which > plugs into a usb charger wall plug on one end, and the other end has > either a 30-pin for iPhone 4, and then it has a lightning plug for > iPhone 5 and newer, and lastly, a Micro USB for the headsets or an > Android phone. > > Since I usually carry around a extra battery pack from new Trent > which > holds either 6000 or 12,000 mAH depending on the one I use, I'm good > with not running out of juice if I'm around places I can't connect > to > a wall. > > Lastly, if I don't have all my gadgets with me, I will hold the > phone > close to my ear like I'm making a phone call and tap away that way. > We > live in a sighted world and so I try to not appear to be socially > inept, however many sighted people do worse things, and we just > don't > know about them because we can't see them. So, that helps me not > worry > too much. > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Immature: A word boring people use to describe fun people. - Sheldon > Cooper Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 > > On 5/24/2013 11:28 AM, Brice Smith wrote: >> 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. 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