From: Plusnet Support Team on
On 31/05/2010 09:23, Zaz wrote:
> Anyone familiar with this situation:
>
> You're at the gym listening to on your mobile phone through your
> earphones. As your running the earphone jack comes out. What you want to
> happen is that your phone pauses the music until you can plug your
> earphones back in. But the phone designers thought it would be a better
> idea start playing your music on the phone loudspeaker!
>
> If that wasn't bad enough on many phones if you plug the earphones back
> in the phone won't switch back to playing through the earphones and will
> continue blasting your music through loudspeaker until you've:
>
> 1. Pressed the unlock key combination.
> 2. Entered your 5 digit security code.
> 3. Selected the correct audio output option.
>
> Does anyone else think is quite a huge design flaw? I think there's much
> potential for embarrassment because of this.

There's a Maemo app for some of the Nokia N-Series devices that makes
the phone behave gracefully when the headphones are unplugged.

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/headphoned/

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From: Zaz on
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:56:28 +0100, someone <invalid(a)invalid.invalid>
wrote:

> On 31 May 2010 08:23 GMT, Zaz <zaz(a)zaz.zaz> wrote:
>
>>there's much potential for embarrassment because of this.
>
> An idea to name the make and model (for the rest of us to avoid) !

Nokia E72
From: Poldie on
On 1 June, 08:43, markinglenos...(a)nospamfastmail.fm (Mark Ingle)
wrote:
> alexd <troffa...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Every electronic device I've used that has a speaker and an earphone
> > socket switches over to the speaker when the earphones are disconnected
> > and vice versa. They'd need a pretty good reason to go against this
> > design convention.
>
> Thank goodness the iPod/iPhones don't do this; as the OP said, this
> could be rather embarrassing.

The iPod doesn't have a speaker, though.