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Cellphone Etiquette

by alec on January 1, 2006

Cellphone etiquette continues to be in the news.  This morning, Marylee Shrider, writing in the Bakersfield Californian, rails at people who take calls in restaurants, theaters, and other public spaces.  This, after going to a movie and being disturbed by callers.

Cell phone etiquette, like cell phone technology is still evolving, but “no matter where you make or take a call, virtually all situations call for you to avoid being intrusive,” writes Peggy Post, great-granddaughter-in-law of etiquette doyen Emily Post and author of “Emily Post’s Etiquette, 17th Edition.”

Maybe the solution is to do as the french have done, and permit the use of jammers in theaters and concert halls. 

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Know When to Turn the Cell Phone Off

by alec on September 5, 2005

Except under extraordinary circumstances, there is no reason to either answer a cell phone during a meeting or, worse, take the call and have a conversation while the meeting is still going on. So says Chuck Martin, writing in the Portsmouth Herald

A while ago I set up a Google Alert for new stories on the topics of Cell Phone Interruptions, and Cell Phone Etiquette.  There are two or three stories per day like the one I quoted above. 

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The Cell Phone is DRIVING ME SQUIRRELLY!

August 29, 2005

Are incessant calls making you nuts?   Is your phone driving you squirrelly?  You need the Cellular Squirrel – an animatronic "desktop squirrel" (did you even know that such a thing existed? I thought squirrels were inherently tree-top devices myself…) which deals with your calls for you. The squirrel answers phone calls, works out if you are busy or [...]

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Blackberry 7290

February 7, 2005

I retired the Motorola MPx200 last week.  As much as I loved this phone, the radio was an 1800/1900 unit, and completely impractical in Ottawa.  Reception was always spotty, and battery minimal as the poor thing valiantly tried to keep a signal alive by increasing the gain on the radio. I replaced it with a [...]

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