When I was in Ann Arbor last month, almost all the stores I went into near the U of Michigan campus had some variety of this sign up. Pretty sad that people are so clueless and/or rude that you have to ask them to do this.
No, they aren't actually referring to what brand the offfending phone is. They're saying that they don't want people using the push-to-talk feature, which originally came out on Nextel, thus gets referred to in that way, kind of like "Q-tip" and "Kleenex."
Push-to-talk is the thing where your phone sounds like a walkie-talkie, thereby annoying the bejeezus out of everyone near you. (i.e., you hear KKZZTTHHH and/or BWEEEEP before every transmission, and you can hear the loud staticky voice of the person on the other end of the call.) It has no redeeming purpose whatsoever that I can discern, and there's an additional cost for using this, uh, privilege rather than just calling the damn person.
I'd imagine they're fine with people using a Nextel-brand phone in normal-phone mode, and I'd imagine they don't want people using an LG or Motorola or Samsung in push-to-talk mode.
My theory on those Nextel/push-to-talk phones is that the people who purchase them have never gotten over the unbelievable trauma of mommy and daddy telling them that, no, they could NOT have real, honest to goodness walkie-talkies for Christmas.
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When I was in Ann Arbor last
When I was in Ann Arbor last month, almost all the stores I went into near the U of Michigan campus had some variety of this sign up. Pretty sad that people are so clueless and/or rude that you have to ask them to do this.
And sometimes people care about only certain brands of cellphone
At a diner that I visit when I'm in Lowell, the sign says "No Nextel phones".
*sigh*
No, they aren't actually referring to what brand the offfending phone is. They're saying that they don't want people using the push-to-talk feature, which originally came out on Nextel, thus gets referred to in that way, kind of like "Q-tip" and "Kleenex."
Push-to-talk is the thing where your phone sounds like a walkie-talkie, thereby annoying the bejeezus out of everyone near you. (i.e., you hear KKZZTTHHH and/or BWEEEEP before every transmission, and you can hear the loud staticky voice of the person on the other end of the call.) It has no redeeming purpose whatsoever that I can discern, and there's an additional cost for using this, uh, privilege rather than just calling the damn person.
I'd imagine they're fine with people using a Nextel-brand phone in normal-phone mode, and I'd imagine they don't want people using an LG or Motorola or Samsung in push-to-talk mode.
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My theory....
My theory on those Nextel/push-to-talk phones is that the people who purchase them have never gotten over the unbelievable trauma of mommy and daddy telling them that, no, they could NOT have real, honest to goodness walkie-talkies for Christmas.
Honestly, what IS the point of those things?
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