Using Phones Like A Walkie Talkie

RiderOnTheStorm

Why do some people put smartphone on speaker and use it like a handheld radio? Everyone can hear both sides of the conversation. Why not put it to your ear? Is it to prevent damage to well applied makeup? Or ruin a good 'do'?

I see this often when I leave my man cave, especially when in big towns & cities. Can anyone offer an explanation?

Wabbit Ears

people who have never seen or used corded phone perhaps simply don't hold their phone the way we learned to use a phone

B_ecke_r

usually girls in my experience, iphones get blocked with make up @ all sorts of other gunk and need to be cleaned out regularly.

more annoying when they have earphones in and the mic is on the ear phone and they're still speaking into the bottom of the phone

Chicken George

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

Can anyone offer an explanation?

To stop the phone frying their brain. That would be my guess.

Star Trek

HopsAndJumps

Brazilians do it. Every single one of them, they don't do text messages.

My missus is an offender, though she sends me texts as I refuse to listen to the voice messages.

benjamin d

I've seen this phenomenon attributed to the Kardashians and the likes on reality tv having their totally not scripted phone calls on speaker like this so the cameras can hear both sides.

I had thought it was a bit stupid but tbh I've started using my phone on speaker most of the time now unless I'm somewhere that it'll be annoying. Big smartphones these days are uncomfortable to hold to your face as the flat surface sticks, and the phone is all sweaty at times afterwards too so I can only imagine what it does to a girl's makeup

kneemos

Using walkie talkie app?

Skylinehead

That is indeed very strange.


Over.

marcbrophy

Just join in on the conversation!
You want a private conversation, turn off the speakerphone, you fcuking prick :mad:

Cantona's Collars

The worst offenders are people driving while doing it.
"Ah sure Guard, I'm on speaker phone,I thought I'd only get stopped if I had it up to my ear".
Clowns.

RiderOnTheStorm

I thought I was turning into grumpy old man, and getting annoyed at any perceived change to my 'normal' .... But there are some good answers here!

Thank you, people of Boards!!

D3V!L

Its the most pretentious self absorbed shite I've ever come across. :mad:

My wife starts doing impressions of Captain Kirk doing his star logs when she sees them :pac:

freshpopcorn

I blame The Apprentice!

TuringBot47

Cantona's Collars wrote: »

The worst offenders are people driving while doing it.

Especially if they're talking to someone called "Roger".

branie2

I've seen some people do it

Badly Drunk Boy

I've usually only seen happening this on the telly (probably because of avoiding people in real life), but it sometimes looks like they're about to start lapping from a saucer.

Chips Lovell

I don't resent it. It's a handy identifier for those who should go first against the wall when the revolution comes.

That and AirPods.

jammiedodgers

Balanadan

benjamin d wrote: »

I've seen this phenomenon attributed to the Kardashians and the likes on reality tv having their totally not scripted phone calls on speaker like this so the cameras can hear both sides.

I had thought it was a bit stupid but tbh I've started using my phone on speaker most of the time now unless I'm somewhere that it'll be annoying. Big smartphones these days are uncomfortable to hold to your face as the flat surface sticks, and the phone is all sweaty at times afterwards too so I can only imagine what it does to a girl's makeup

Come on now, is that really a problem? Are people really too sweaty to use a mobile phone normally?

Ubbquittious

This kicked off bigtime in the states in the days of the 'Nextel' network. The phones were intended to be used this way but it was annoying as fcukk to hear people using them