OT: What's the point in vibrating mobiles?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So you're somewhere like a cinema, or a meeting, where you don't want to disturb anyone. So you put the phone on vibrate. Then what? Have a phonecall in front of everyone? Disturb everyone by leaving?

[charles]

sometimes, other things are more importnat than the meeting you are attending. Yes, leave the room and deal with it. Or, if it's not that important, wait until the meeting is over.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Phonecalls are never as important as the person calling thinks they are.

[charles]

It's the recipient who decides whether it's important.

[Brian Gaff]

No in the cinema you turn it off, you conserve your battery. Vibrating mobiles are very good in noisy streets as you can feel it. They also seem to work under pillows, but I feel that is dangerous. If you put one on a very hard surface, quite often its louder than the ringing and you don't have the embarrassment of a custom ring tone upsetting anyone.

Another way to save power is to do what we blindies do, put the phone in curtain mode, ie turn off the light in the screen. Saves loads of battery, and turn on voice over or talkback etc, and use it as we do sliding fingers about and listening to the options through your earphones instead of squinting at a screen, good for your eyes mate.

Brian

[Nightjar]

The vibration feature is so that deaf people know they have an incoming telephone call :-)

[Me]

Some ladies seem to like them, for whatever reason...

[Bob Eager]

[James Wilkinson Sword]

And as I said, they are never important enough to interrupt what you're doing.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Since I have a phone not made by apple, I don't have to think about conserving batteries.

I can hear mine ringing on a noisy street. But I wouldn't be able to hear the conversation, so no point anyway!

How on earth can it be dangerous to put it under your pillow?

Sometimes the vibration makes them fall off the hard surface onto another hard surface and then breaks the screen.

My ring tone is simply the sound of a telephone ringing. Anything else gets jammed in my head.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Why should they like them more than men? Never heard of a "vibrating vagina"?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Ahh Maggie Philbin!

[Tim Streater]

And at least you haven't irritated the *f*ck* out of the other meeting attendees with your shitty ring tone.

[Bill Wright]

Dad, I think Mam's had another stroke. But she's not even breathing.

Bill

[Bill Wright]

Hello Mrs Wright. This is the Northern General, cardiology. Your remote monitoring is giving us cause for concern. Do you have transport? Could you get here straight away?

And twenty-five years ago when I was in the Buttercross at Tickhill: "Bill, phone call for you." "Dad, I don't want to worry you but there's a helicopter just over the house shining a light down and there's policemen everywhere in the garden." We had a problem getting into the village because of the roadblock. It turned out some crims had escaped from a prison van on the motorway and had run towards our house. They were captured soon after.

Bill

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

He always was and always will be. Did you know that he has no running hot water, has 11 cats, several birds, no woman, no chance of getting one, lives alone, can't afford disinfectant and is unemployable. He has a degree you know.

[Max Demian]

Hard to stick your dick in a phone.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Use two and make a sandwich.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Did you not teach your child the number for 999?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

And you use a mobile for that!? You mean it doesn't alert you seperately?

And you getting there helped how?