Annoying Speakers on Cellphones
Cellphones are great devices with tons of uses, no matter what your “geek level” might be, there is a cellphone out there for you with the features you want/need.
However, one feature that I think should have never been built into these devices is the capability to play music sans earphones. I understand that, essentially, all these kids are doing is playing a ringtone that happens to be a song (in some cases, it’s an MP3), but while traveling on a bus or the Metro, it’s really annoying having to listen to someone else’s music (usually rap) for the duration of your ride – it’s twice as annoying when they happen to get off at the same stop as you. They’ve become the boomboxes of the younger generation.
I often try to stare them down until they get the hint, but kids these days are quite defiant… but that’s another blog post entirely.
That hasn’t happen to me yet but I keep hearing about it. The poor sucker who’s gonna lose his phone…