A handy little feature on my Japanese phone was an option that silenced the ringer and turned on vibration with one button. So you flip open the phone, hold a button for 2 or 3 seconds, and it displays “Manner mode ON”. To turn it off, you flip the phone open, hold the same button, and it displays “Manner mode OFF”. So if you’re in class, or at work, or you’re in an important meeting, you never have people’s phones making noise.
Contrast this with the phone I’m borrowing from my mom at the moment. There’s no simple way to shut off the ringer and turn on vibration. It takes about 10 keypresses to set incoming calls to vibrate, and another 10 to set it back. Furthermore, the phone makes a noise when you fumble through the menus on the phone to silence the ringer, when you turn the phone on, and it even makes noise when you turn it off. Meaning that if your phone goes off in the middle of class, you’ll also annoy everyone when you shut the damn thing off.
The only way to turn off the phone without making noise is removing the battery.
Thank you, Samsung. You’ve made my case for cell phones being evil.
Yay! Samsung! Korea! for making Jeff’s life hard! :)
Hmm.. That’s strange. I used to use a Samsung phone back in Korea and it had same button as we have in Japan. Maybe it’s just a company’s evil plan to make American’s life a bit more interesting. :)
We do that subtly sometimes, you know.;)
You know, I have a Panasonic phone here and it has the same function, which is customisable down to how you like it to vibrate/flash. I think you need a new phone.
That said, when my battery is low on this phone, it makes an annoying beep, and you can’t silence it using the said button. It takes just under 10 seconds to turn off, so when it goes off during critical situations like exams (which happened once), the quickest way was to remove the battery.
Yes, but if you remember your favorite phone, when you want to go back to the ring tone by depressing and holding the same button the screen displays “returning to normal mode”. When are we “normal”?
I have a Samsung, and while it is less advanced than my Sony Ericsson from au, it ~does~ have one-touch silent mode.