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
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