Mike Little
John OverholtProtip: You can also make a phone call by holding it up to your ear and speaking into it directly at a low volume.
Michael Gemar@overholt @astro_jcm What dark magics is this?
Bill Hooker@overholt No. This is 2024, I don't use my phone for that.
MJ Ray@overholt yeah, no. Use a headset else you can't see what the screen is doing.
Alexey Mints@overholt I'll take it further and remind people that telephones are capable of carrying you voice over large distances - there is no need to shout.
Auntie Mame@overholt Not when holding it too close to my face causes the call to hang up.
Josh 
mnemonicoverload@overholt @ymasumac @josh0 I've definitely had laggy old phones where the updates have piled up to the point that the sensor fails to trigger the touch disable quickly enough to prevent accidental ear / cheek touches. Not sure how it works in iOS but for Android at least if touch inputs are ongoing because your face is already mashed on it won't lockout further inputs when the OS catches up to the sensor. The only workaround was to consistently remember to hover the phone near but not touching for a few moments to give it a hot second to catch up.
@mnemonicoverload @overholt @ymasumac interesting. I’ve never had an issue with an iOS device, and I use it just like the old school phones I grew up with. Don’t recall ever having any issues with the handful of android phones I’ve had, either.
Mark Rotteveel
Mingo 🦩 Hagen
YendoloschWarning: smartphones are still inedible, even the newest models. If you are tempted to shove something into your mouth, try a slice of pizza.
Steven Heywood@overholt
So long as the elderly relative who's rung you and is demanding you urgently sort something out has turned the sound down on their television.
The number of times I've had to apologise to a busful of people for repeatedly shouting: "Turn your telly down!"
Bee O'Problem 
@overholt I heard something about "dialing" but I always text so who knows 🤷♀️
Andre@overholt what is this „phone call“ app?
groff 🇺🇦@overholt Unless it's a video call to someone with a hearing impairment or other challanges who partially depend on being able lip read or see expressions to understand what is being said.
aerique
Mrs RavenIn the waiting room at the cancer center this morning and some richard cranium was taking a call in speakerphone mode.
No lie.
Bill Seitz@overholt flat/skinny phones are pretty bad at that
@billseitz @overholt pretty sure they are not bad at all.
🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉:~$ ▓@overholt hey that's how we distinquish the retards from the intelligent mass. if you cant use a phone correctly then please stop using it.
pino@kimschulz @overholt You mean the intelligent from the retarded mass?
Maybe even 'intelligent' isn't the best word. I'm very lucky to not be one of these retarded smartphone zombies. I wouldn't call myself 'intelligent', though...
@kimschulz @overholt Might be. And that's not always a satisfying feeling at all!
Greg Brooks
~n@overholt Someone needs to make a tiktok-video based on this life-hack so it will spread. 🤗
Meercat ✅
@overholt indeed. One does not need to disturb everyone around while talking on the phone
Max@overholt that is not a pro tip, it’s a life hack!
Kevin P. Fleming@overholt We really need pictures of people holding Princess phone handsets away from their faces (horizontally) and shouting at them.
katzenberger 🇺🇦I know people who can make international calls from their balcony, without any phone at all.
Jayne 
🇪🇺🏳️🌈That’s a perfect description of my sister-in-law 🙈
🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann@overholt
WHAT? I thought the reflective screen was used reflect and amplify my voice on its way to the satellites!?
@bert_hubert
WHAT? I thought the reflective screen was used reflect and amplify my voice on its way to the satellites!?
@bert_hubert
Wheeze_NL@overholt can we have this as a PSA please?
Edvin Malinovskis@overholt wasn't this a result of Apple gaslighting their customers due to a defect in some of their phones? 🤨
@overholt Did you just mansplain how to use a phone? Seriously?