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Offline Alex EisenhutTopic starter

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Ear buds
« on: May 16, 2021, 10:17:04 pm »
Here's another stupid interface design. While talking on the phone, I decide to use my bluetooth ear buds. I grab the right one, and as I fiddle to make it fit in my ear, it hangs up the call.

Can't there be a 10 second delay between being uncradled and sending touches to the phone while I put them in? What kind of dumb design is this? And again, trying to locate any kind of menu setting about which ear bud registers which press to do what is impossible.

I just can't keep up with all these menus and settings changing all the time and defaulting to the stupidest possible behavior.
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Re: Ear buds
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2021, 11:17:14 pm »
Here's another stupid interface design. While talking on the phone, I decide to use my bluetooth ear buds. I grab the right one, and as I fiddle to make it fit in my ear, it hangs up the call.

Can't there be a 10 second delay between being uncradled and sending touches to the phone while I put them in? What kind of dumb design is this? And again, trying to locate any kind of menu setting about which ear bud registers which press to do what is impossible.

I just can't keep up with all these menus and settings changing all the time and defaulting to the stupidest possible behavior.

I bet I can find an even MORE stupid interface design for you - my "Tozo T12" wireless earbuds, which a friend kindly gave me, I do NOT use, since they've become a victim of the obsession by modern Chinese "designers" of putting touch interfaces ON EVERYTHING, for no good reason! I listen to live MP3 streamed podcasts 3x a week - now with these in my ear, if I reach up to readjust them for comfort, I end up touching the capacitive touch control surface whcih registers this as a "play/pause" tap, AND THEN I LOSE MY PLACE IN THE LIVE STREAM  (it is not pausable!)

Arghhh! So they sit in their nice little case doing nothing, and my cheapo "Trust" £10 pair go out with me, which have TACTILE buttons.
 

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Re: Ear buds
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2021, 12:14:27 am »
In the before time, we had a little port in the phone called an earphone jack. It was quite possible to conduct a phone call normally in one ear whilst placing an earbud in the other. You'd then plug in the cord into the phone and boom. You're off to the races.

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My other gripe is the company Raycon. All they sell is wireless earbuds. The company is so sophisticated they have been slowly adding different countries to the list in the online shopping cart. They still haven't figured out how to sell to Australia.

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Re: Ear buds
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2021, 12:22:34 am »
I also have the same problem of moving my hair and the earbud detects it. I had a pair of terrible, awful Mobvoi buds where the right earbud could sense the neutrinos in my fingers from 600 feet away, and the left one required The Thing from the Fantastic Four to press on it. Quite interesting.

Then of course the batteries die asymmetrically and they are not very user-replaceable. I tried. Not worth it.
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