Music phone manners

MP3 capable music cell phones are slowing getting into people's pockets, replacing Walkmans, iPods, and other music players. The first batch of music phones used to be clunky, hard to use and only has memory to hold 5~10 songs. Then they start to get memory card slots alowing huge memory upgrades, and the user interfaces got better and better. Then came Sony Ericssion's Walkman phones and Motorola's iTunes phones, using branding to remind consumers that phones really can play music well, a feature previously largely ignored by consumers. It is then that music phones starts to boom.

What's different between music phones & dedicated music players? Other then the ability to make calls, phones have real loud speakers that were made to do loud rings. In the case of music phones, manufacturers saw that this speakers would be nice for music playback, and tweaked them to play loud music in good quality.

Now, the walkmans with headphones start to be replaced by phones with speakers. Thus you get a modern digital pocket boombox. Some people start to do away with headphones and play music loudly with phones in the public. You see dumb asses on the bus, the seat right behind you, booming out their favorite music, which happens to be the very tune that you hate the most. Hay, other people are not deaf! Give a little consideration to others when you are in the public, will you?

When new forms of tech comes into life, people forget to apply manners. Rude e-mails, phone rings in speachs & meetings are all examples. Come on, just apply a little common sense and be considerate to others. Excuses of "Mom didn't taught me back then"just doesn't cut it.