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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 06/13/2006 : 18:11:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
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As for the cell phone text messages, you can also put your cell on silent. I can't imagine why you would ever need this ringtone.
Well, if you'd listened to the NPR story I linked to, you'd know that even old folks can hear some cell phones when they're on vibrate. I had mine on vibrate for a while, but people would still say, "what's that noise?" when it rang.
Right. The whole point of vibrate is to "feel" the phone when there's too much noise to otherwise hear it. Like at a sporting event, or while in the car listening to the radio with the volume all the way up. Or something.
Sure, some people put it on vibrate in meetings or some such, but we can all hear it. But to be honest, I'd rather hear that vibrating bzzzz-bzzzz than the into to the synthesized version of some crappy 80's song or an old Irish hymn or something!
Not quite sure where you guys are reading vibrate, as I never wrote it. I do this often in class. I put my phone on silent during class, and check it every once and a while. Now my professors don't care it really doesn't matter, but if a teacher ever questioned what I was doing, I would just say that I was checking the time. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Posted - 06/13/2006 : 20:22:17 [Permalink]
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Oh, that "silent."
I didn't even think about that, since if I don't want incoming calls bothering me, I turn the thing off. |
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/13/2006 : 21:07:05 [Permalink]
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My son played it and I could hear it.
Yeah, my 32-year-old husband could hear it too. |
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