Nextel beep-beep phones...please turn down the volume!!!

[stevenpensacola]

Time for my gripe o' the day....

For those of you with the beep-beep phones...don't they have a volume control? Do you HAVE to have it turned up all the way all the time? The reason you use a phone is so you DON'T have to shout....the phone transmits your NORMAL voice over long distances.....

I feel better now....

something I found on the web:


Beep beep! “Yo! Where you at?”

I hate push-to-talk phones. They fill me with rage. You know those phones that decided that a loud, distorted rap song ringtone wasn’t quite annoying enough, so they upped the volume, introduced a shrill double-beep between each turn of the conversation, and oh… kept the annoying rap ring tones, for good measure. As annoying as it was to hear one side of the “Yo, where you at?” conversation, hearing both sides, punctuated with shrill beeps, brings it to a whole new level of annoying.

Let me break it down for you losers (who seem to be predominantly male): you’re not a policeman. You’re not a fireman. You’re not even a freaking construction site supervisor. You have no need for a walkie-talkie that broadcasts each transmission for all to hear. Not only are you an unimportant person, you’re a whole evolutionary generation behind the average annoying cell phone user. You are the pinnacle of banality, and yet you think your mind-numbing tripe is actually worthy of public broadcast. I’d kick you in the crotch if I weren’t sure that your lack of descension would result in your pelvic bone bruising my foot.

Carrying such a device marks you as a moron. It is automatically indicative of both a sub-100 I.Q. and a false sense of self-importance. Of course, the sort of people who use such hellish devices are probably not computer users. Most of the people whom I have approach weren’t even aware that they could turn the beeps and the extra-loud volume off and, you know, use their cell phone like a bleeding cell phone.
Posted by Mark | Oct 28th, 2005 @ 10:47 PM
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[BillSears]

I found out the other day that you can actually talk on these phones normally. You don't have to use the darn walkie talkie feature. Some guy was using it in a coffee house where there was a performance and someone asked him to please stop. He just pressed a button and swapped the call over to normal phone use.

So really the only reason these idiots use it this way is because they don't care if they annoy others.

 

[MushyMushy]

We don't have Nextel phones around here, but your description of it sure is funny!

 

[MareQ]

Not sure about all Nextel phones- but on mine you cannot turn the beep down.

And yes you can have both cell and direct connect - but you can also have ONLY direct connect as well. For example we have over 25 employees that only have direct connect so they only way to get them is via direct connect.

You can however use Direct Connect in a non speaker way. You still have to press and hodl the button but you have to hold it up to yoru ear like a standard conversation. This is what I do when in public - otherwise I use speaker as it's easier.

 

[Brianne]

OMG. I had the same thought running through my head at lunchtime today. The guilty party was a 50-something year old guy walking into Home Depot though so it seems to go beyond the "youngsters". I had to really resist saying something loudly as I walked by.

I don't really see the point of them--it only takes me a couple seconds to dial someone on my cellphone so why would I need instant access to them?

 

[Honu]

I soooooo agree. My walkie talkie was enabled for 5 hours and then I turned it off for the remainder of my contract. It was annoying to me and no one who happened to be around me wanted to hear "Beep - Are you there?" blaring from my phone. It's rude. When I was working we made couriers, contractors, etc. turn them off in the building too.

 

[cybrkitn]

I agree! I have the push-to-talk phone at the front desk where I work. It's only used to let the person in shipping know there is a delivery or if something regarding a facility matter comes up.

What I can't stand are those that go around with it blasting so you can hear their entire converstation. Whatever happened to etiquette and common sense or did those go out the window a long time ago

People! Turn the volume down or switch it to phone mode so the rest of us are not subjected to your whole conversation! Not doing so is just plain RUDE! I also do not wish to hear all the swearing that both of you use, nor does my 4 year old son, thank you very much!

I feel better now

 

[Chicago526]

My dad had one of these when they first came out in the mid-90's and NO ONE really had them yet (he had it for work). Then, as now, I still don't get the point. What's wrong with just picking up a phone and calling someone?

I read on a post here once that someone was in one of the shows at Disney (Hall of Presidents comes to mind) and his Nextell phone went "beep-beep", because he forgot to turn it off (hey, we've all been there!). He noticed that when it went off, about half the guys in the audienced jumped up a little in their seats! Talk about a Pavlof's dog response!

 

[PhotobearSam]

The ONLY time this feature should be used is between workers of a company. Our plumbers use this feature and even if they are not in the same town, it's ok because I don;t even think they ever stop for a coffee let alone lunch.

Just my opinion.

 

[RitaZ.]

So really the only reason these idiots use it this way is because they don't care if they annoy others.

That or they may not know that their phone has that feature.

 

[Carl]

Cell phones don't usually bother me. Neither do walkie talkies. BUT that loud BEEP BEEP drives me up the wall. If they could just turn that off, I wouldn't mind if they talked on the speaker phone or what ever they did. Just get rid of the BEEP BEEP! However, I asked someone once if the sound could be turned off and they told me "No."

 

[stevenpensacola]

We were out camping earlier this year...in a beautiful campground located in a state forest....we're sitting there by the lake, enjoying the tweeting of the birds, watching a deer feeding on the shoreline....when from way across the campground you hear BEEP BEEP...what are ya'll doing? BEEP BEEP we're just sittin' here havin' a cold one BEEP BEEP wish I was there with ya'll

now that's annoying

we were at a concert one night and the guy in front of us was constantly beep beeping with one of his cohorts.....

I'm sure they have their place, and are useful for those who really need them, but please be considerate of those around you.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

This phone is a pet peeve of mine too. And here I thought it was just me.
My DH's niece stayed with us for a month one summer (completely uninvited but that's a whole other thread). She was bored and called everyone.
All day long it was:
beep-beep
what'cha doin'
beep-beep
sleeping
beep-beep
I'm booorred
beep-beep
so do something
beep-beep
what?

I could go but I think you have the picture. I used to yell at her constantly to go outside and use the freaking thing but she would talk so loudly I could still hear her in the house with all the windows closed and AC on.

She invited herself back the next summer (informed us she was coming). I told her, in front of her parents, that if she showed up I was taking her back to the airport myself and leaving her there! Funny, she never showed up.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

The only way I can control the "Bloop" (as I like to call it) is if I have the phone on vibrate. It will vibrate and turn the speaker off. Most of the time I have it in this setting when I am out in public, but there are times like at the grocery store where I just leave it as is.

It's my work phone and I have it for emergencies, like if a plane crashes. I try to do my best to use proper etiquette, though.

 

[Luv'sTink]

It's not just the walkie talkie phones, it's all rude cell phone users;
People who wont turn them off when their are signs that tell them too.
People who sit at a restaurant and talk while eating.
People who drive with them up to there ear!!!
People who want the service person to wait while they finish their phone call or want them to help them and not let the person on the other end know what they are doing.
People who yell rather than talk into them.
Loud obnoxious ringers/ring tones.
I could go on and on but that, I guess is another thread.

 

[Geoff_M]

Beep beep! “Yo! Where you at?”

I hate push-to-talk phones. They fill me with rage. You know those phones that decided that a loud, distorted rap song ringtone wasn’t quite annoying enough, so they upped the volume, introduced a shrill double-beep between each turn of the conversation, and oh… kept the annoying rap ring tones, for good measure. As annoying as it was to hear one side of the “Yo, where you at?” conversation, hearing both sides, punctuated with shrill beeps, brings it to a whole new level of annoying.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves.... and I'm a Nextel user. And yes, you can turn the external speaker OFF and use the Direct-Connect feature just like a regular telephone!!! Intead of "beep-beep" it vibrates. I'd love to KILL the genius at Motrola that decided that the external speaker "beep-beep" options should be the default option on Nextel phones! Most of these yahoos have no idea that there's an alternative to running around the supermarket "beep-beep-ing", holding your phone at a funky angle near your mouth, and annoying the heck out of those people around you with the shrill sound of your friend blaring from the phone while you talk about real important stuff like "What you doing tonight?!?!?"

We also can't escape this at home... We have a lovey neighbhor on our cul-du-sac who on nice summer evenings likes to sit out on her front poarch and "beep-beep" all of her friends all evening to the enjoyment of the rest of us trying to spend some time outside with our kids....

"Beep-beep"
"So then what happened?"
"Beep-beep"
"Waa-whaa-waa-whaa-whaa-whaaa!"
"Beep-beep"
"No way!"
"Beep-beep"
"Waahhh!!!!!"
...etc., etc., etc.

 

[maxiesmom]

I was thinking this very thing yesterday. There was some lady in the mall who thought I needed to know every detail of her life. "Honey can you go pick up the kids?" beep beep "yeah." beep beep. "Ok, cause I will be shopping for a while." beep beep. On and on it went. I so wanted to go up and tell her that no one else was interested in her day. And why do people have to shout into those things?

 

[JulyGirl]

I hate push-to-talk phones. They fill me with rage. Posted by Mark | Oct 28th, 2005 @ 10:47 PM
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This cracks me up for some reason.

 

[nana2tots]

I'm a Nextel nut also, and my Beep Beeps drive me Crazy!!!!!!

 

[hppy2bhome]

I found out the other day that you can actually talk on these phones normally. You don't have to use the darn walkie talkie feature. Some guy was using it in a coffee house where there was a performance and someone asked him to please stop. He just pressed a button and swapped the call over to normal phone use.

So really the only reason these idiots use it this way is because they don't care if they annoy others.

I'm sure all he did was take it off speaker mode. There is no switch to make it a regular phone when your in walkie talkie mode and if there is not all nextel phones have it.