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Wednesday, 20 February 2008

The Latest: Mobile phone speaker is 'worst invention yet'

In another rant against a socio-cultural trend that continues to destroy the very fabric of humanity, I turned my attention to mobile phone speakers. Puzzled? I'm sure you will understand exactly where I am coming from in my newest blog at The Latest.

It is everyone's worst nightmare. Even if coming to terms with being a slave to poor public transport wasn’t bad enough, you get on the bus or train to hear awful music amplified through some idiot’s phone with 2-watt speakers.

On a disgraceful amplifier that makes music from rave to rock sound like muzak, this teenage trend is getting worse by the day.

It seems like the kids who do it purposefully want to mark their musical territory much like a dog urinating to geographically chart their area. Sadly, this mobile phone phenomenon is much, much worse.

I believe the creation of loudspeaker mp3 phones to be possibly the worst (anti-)social trend in recent years. It seems to stem from the one device that in itself has caused nothing but annoyance to millions worldwide.

Firstly it was the showing-off of ringtones. After Thomas Dolby (who Blinded Us With Science in the 80’s) created the polyphonic ringtone, this got much worse.

Then came arguments and cases of bullying through text messaging. It seemed that anything that was created as a force of good could be wrangled by the less desirable teenage population into something bad.

And now these people deem it necessary to show off their musical “taste” by playing it through the tinniest-sounding output, much to the annoyance of anybody that does not like rave with transposed female vocals, inadvertently sounding like The Chipmunks have relaunched their career. Headphones should be made a legal requirement.

It adds to the list of social acts that almost seem aggressive in their nature. Luckily, for many people, I am one of the few that has the guts to tell them to turn it off in the face of the silent threat of violence hangs heavy in the air.

I just hope that designers of mobile phones will one day be trapped with inconsiderate fools who play this insufferable noise and reconsider the flaws in their creations.

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