Cell phone "vibrate" mode...more annoying...

[stevenpensacola]

It seems like the "vibrate" mode of the newer cell phones just keep getting louder and louder...and draw more attention than an audible ring tone.

If a ring tone goes off in, say Sunday School, everyone quickly knows who the offender is, and everyone goes about their business,

If a phone on vibrate goes off, everyone "hears" the rrrrrrr rrrrrrrrr rrrrrrr, but can't place where it's coming from, so everyone begins checking their phones until the poor sap finally finds out it is him. We then proceed to give him the stink eye as we discreetly make sure our phones are on vibrate...

I used to have a pager back in the dark ages, and you had to be physically touching the thing to notice the vibration...which is how it should be.

Maybe everyone should place their phone on silent mode, keep your phone visible so you can "see" if you get a truly important call which really, truly, really really requires immediate response.

Unless you're a world famous heart transplant doctor, it can probably wait.

Testing has found that when the phone is vibrating, it does consume much more battery resources than when "ringing".

 

[ILoveToRun]

It seems like the "vibrate" mode of the newer cell phones just keep getting louder and louder...and draw more attention than an audible ring tone.

If a ring tone goes off in, say Sunday School, everyone quickly knows who the offender is, and everyone goes about their business,

If a phone on vibrate goes off, everyone "hears" the rrrrrrr rrrrrrrrr rrrrrrr, but can't place where it's coming from, so everyone begins checking their phones until the poor sap finally finds out it is him. We then proceed to give him the stink eye as we discreetly make sure our phones are on vibrate...

I used to have a pager back in the dark ages, and you had to be physically touching the thing to notice the vibration...which is how it should be.

Maybe everyone should place their phone on silent mode, keep your phone visible so you can "see" if you get a truly important call which really, truly, really really requires immediate response.

Unless you're a world famous heart transplant doctor, it can probably wait.

Testing has found that when the phone is vibrating, it does consume much more battery resources than when "ringing".

I think it still depends on the phone and where it's located. Pretty much all phones are annoying on a hard surface like a table when vibrating of course. But my phone is super silent in my pocket and I only barely feel it so I recognize it. I think it's useless otherwise, and I don't understand why anyone has it on vibrate unless it's to be close to their body, in the purse for example, doesn't make sense to me.

There are an endless amount of reasons why someone would need their phone even if they aren't a world famous heart transplant doctor.

 

[OKW Lover]

I've never experienced a problem with "loud" vibrating phones. Perhaps the OP can tell us which model phone this was an issue with.

FWIW, my iPhone is very quiet on vibrate mode. It is noticeable if left on a hard surface, but even then its not obnoxious.

 

[Pembo]

As a person with hearing loss, I look for the phone that has a strong vibrate. I would love to know what phones you are referring to. In my experience the vibrate features are getting less powerful. I spent quite a bit of time testing phones at my last upgrade and had to settle for one with much less power than my previous phone.

I typically can't hear the ring tone unless I'm in a very quiet space so I readily appreciate the vibrate feature.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

The only time you can tell my phone is ringing on vibrate is when it is on a table. Otherwise I can't feel it, let alone hear it when it vibrates, even when it is in my pocket. The screen lighting up is more of a distraction IMO than the vibrate mode.

 

[goofy!]

Unless you're a world famous heart transplant doctor, it can probably wait.

Sorry, there are plenty of jobs besides a world famous heart transplant doctor where calls cannot wait.

My husband's company is one of them.

If some of the biggest companies' call centers go down, they would not be too happy to "wait around" while the non-world famous heart transplant doctors finish their church sermons or finish dinner or even a ride at Disney World. Every minute their phones are down costs them millions in revenue.

They only time I have ever heard somebody else's vibrate mode is when it is on a solid surface and it rattles.

 

[SaraJayne]

OP, I agree with you. Both mine and DS's phones can be heard across the room when on "vibrate".

Kinda defeats the whole purpose of vibrate.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I don't mind vibrating phones. I do mind when it is very obviously someone's phone vibrating and they ignore it and don't silence it even when they know it is their phone. I think that is rude.

 

[Talking Hands]

To hear my cell phone ring I have to have it in its highest mode and not be in a noisy area. Vibrate is a godsend because it alerts me to the phone and I can either answer or reject the call and send it to voice mail.

 

[mrodgers]

I can only feel my phone vibrate in my hand. If it is in my pocket, I neither feel the vibration nor hear it, nor do I hear the ringer turned up as loud as it will go when at work (extremely loud manufacturing plant.)

My computer is in the basement. If I'm on the computer, as I am now, and my phone is sitting upstairs on the couch or other soft surface (doesn't have to be on the hard table or anything,) I can hear the vibration every time. I can hear it vibrate better than I can hear the ringtone.

 

[LuvsDragonflies]

Maybe they are louder because the phones are getting bigger again? They spent all that time making them small, and now the "smart phones" are all big again/

Frankly, I prefer them big.

 

[SaraJayne]

Maybe they are louder because the phones are getting bigger again? They spent all that time making them small, and now the "smart phones" are all big again/

Frankly, I prefer them big.

Neither of ours are a smartphone. Mine is about the size of a playing card.

 

[KBoopaloo]

I totally agree. I recently switched from a Blackberry to Samsung Galaxy (Android) and the vibration is SO much louder. I can hear the phone vibrate when I am upstairs and my phone is downstairs. Two of my coworkers have iPhones and if their phones are out on their desks, everyone in the office is startled when they go off. LOL

 

[Bilberry]

Kind of chuckling about this, but I used to work with a guy that was glued to his cell phone. One time he placed it in vibrate mode, stuck it in a front pocket of his shirt and forgot about it. When the phone began vibrating, it sent him into a panic. There for a short while he though the big one had come, he was having a heart attack.

 

[herdtoDisney]

As a person with hearing loss, I look for the phone that has a strong vibrate. I would love to know what phones you are referring to. In my experience the vibrate features are getting less powerful. I spent quite a bit of time testing phones at my last upgrade and had to settle for one with much less power than my previous phone.

I typically can't hear the ring tone unless I'm in a very quiet space so I readily appreciate the vibrate feature.

Yeah, I have hearing loss too and I keep my phone on highest-volume ring AND vibrate so I have some chance of hearing it! But I can't hear the vibrate at all if there is any backround noise.

I really need a phone that yells HEY YOU HAVE A CALL and shocks with a lightening volt! Then I'd hear it

I think the cases people use make the vibrate louder-like it vibrates against the plastic. Mine is defenitely louder in its case, it;s not a smartphone just a regular one.

 

[sam_gordon]

Frankly, I prefer them big.

Oh Tag Fairy...

 

[jrmasm]

The only time you can tell my phone is ringing on vibrate is when it is on a table. Otherwise I can't feel it, let alone hear it when it vibrates, even when it is in my pocket. The screen lighting up is more of a distraction IMO than the vibrate mode.

I can feel my coworker's phone vibrate on my desk. Her cubicle is next to mine. It's not a huge deal other than I always forget that it's her phone and check mine.