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From: Zaz on 31 May 2010 04:23 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.
From: alexd on 31 May 2010 05:08 On 31/05/10 09:23, Zaz wrote: > 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! 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. Having said that, I've just tested this on the Mrs' Nokia 5200 and it does what you've asked for, albeit with a fraction of a second of audio from the speaker before pausing. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 10:03:27 up 33 days, 10:56, 0 users, load average: 0.10, 0.13, 0.11 It is better to have been wasted and then sober than to never have been wasted at all
From: Mark Ingle on 1 Jun 2010 03:43 alexd <troffasky(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. On the iPods, if one pulls the headphone jack out, the music is paused, and if one wants it to play from the speaker, one just unpauses it.
From: Andy Scott on 1 Jun 2010 07:24 "Mark Ingle" <markinglenospam(a)nospamfastmail.fm> wrote in message news:1jjeg2x.18wd7qj311j1iN%markinglenospam(a)nospamfastmail.fm... > alexd <troffasky(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. On the iPods, if one pulls the headphone > jack out, the music is paused, and if one wants it to play from the > speaker, one just unpauses it. The Sony Ericsson W995 pauses the music and asks you if you want to continue playback through the speakers when you pull the earphones out
From: someone on 3 Jun 2010 03:56
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) ! |