If I am not at home relaxing, I’m calling a business, a doctor, a school or spouse for logistics. Which likely means I need to read some code or schedule on my calendar — which without headset means speakerphone.

Additionally, the speakerphone and handset speaker are colocated by the ear — so when my kid engages FaceTime mid-call it trills at high volume at my ear (or if spouse happened to trigger find my phone to REALLY get my attention). This hasn’t happened to often, but enough and unpleasant enough that I am gun shy about handset phone use.

Finally, it is tiring holding it up to your ear, phones or old could be crooked under the neck to free that hand for a spell, but now these huge phones must be tightly held right up to your ear to hear.

I’ve definitely had issues with proximity sensor too, and you can’t lock with side button — that ends calls in handset mode.

I also can't hear well (or be heard) without speakerphone on regular calls because the handset speaker is small and hard to align with my ear, and the max volume generally isn't sufficient to overcome ambient noise. Related, Teams noise cancellation also suppresses my voice if there's a low rumble in the background, like air conditioning.

Using speakerphone with the volume lowered is usually the only way I can reliably make and take calls.

I haven't come across it and I'm skeptical of articles like this are actually writing about something that's rarely happening while asking, "Why is everyone one speakerphone in public?"

I don't doubt it happens, and I can see this happening at higher rates in certain places, but honestly: What percentage of people are doing this are actually doing this in the worst places?

If you see this happening a lot, I'd love to know more. Where are you seeing it? What percentage of peopletalking on the phone do you estimate are doing it?

Here in Norway it's still quite uncommon, though back then nobody did it.

Why do some people play their phones out loud on buses and trains? (rte.ie) 41 points by austinallegro 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 26 comments

Samsung (and co.) must know what % of people with headphone jacks prefers the speaker on the street. Ofc they won't tell.

I think the issue is a general increase in anti-social behavior - but part of it is definitely cultural. As an example, I never see Japanese people on their speakerphones in public. Some other cultures seem more likely to view it as acceptable (or just care less about how they impact others). I’ve also noticed that elderly people are much more likely to be on speakerphones taking calls with the volume at max, so personally I think there’s an age aspect too.

phone speaker rating is gone from any list of features, and there are no reviews that compare the volume and sound quality, how did that happen with zero discussion or push back?

fuck you all for trying to live in your little pristine taboo bubbles ,eh!

no problem stopping a conversation without preamble or appology 5 times to answer the LOUD notification for a message , critical no doubt, so back to fucking you give us back decent speakers, and perhaps a real ear piece...? molded into the flip side ??? or something other than AI garbage and mountains of unwanted "features", and adverconsumption oportunities.