Since the noise reduction FAILS when the phone is NOT against the ear, EVERY call I had since my new iPhone 5 I got a "I can't hear you".
Apple's official response is: "use the speaker function, the earbuds or a bluetooth device".
In other words: "This is our super-cool new microphone (system) so use it as we tell you" It works worse than a 70 years old microphone, but hey! it helps your caller to understand your words when you are in a noisy place!
Super cool!
Now, this is the list of things a 10years old phone can do but you can't while in a call in an iPhone5:
So you have an agenda!, but can't read on-loud. You have a map, but can't share directions. You have email in your phone!, but you can't tell anybody.
You have a phone with noise canceling, but it cancels your own voice. You have a proximity sensor and it can't tell the phone you are far from it, and thus the noise canceling WILL FAIL.
Ridiculous.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20204125#20204125
Apple's official response is: "use the speaker function, the earbuds or a bluetooth device".
In other words: "This is our super-cool new microphone (system) so use it as we tell you" It works worse than a 70 years old microphone, but hey! it helps your caller to understand your words when you are in a noisy place!
Super cool!
Now, this is the list of things a 10years old phone can do but you can't while in a call in an iPhone5:
- Separate the phone from your ear to let it cool
- Give someone a number from your agenda
- Give someone directions from your map
- Read out loud an email or message
- rest your arm's position by rising the phone's bottom
- Look at your phone and insult your caller
- Turn on the volume
- Add a call while speaking
- Checking the time in the phone
- …or checking the signal bars!
- Speak while lying on bed (really, try it!)
- …and basically any other scenario you are not aware of, but yet you actually hold your phone in ANY other position other than both a) your ear against the speaker AND b) your mouth next the FRONT of the phone (and that the voice comes from below up, so it's greatly better listened by the lower mic's guts than the back mic)
So you have an agenda!, but can't read on-loud. You have a map, but can't share directions. You have email in your phone!, but you can't tell anybody.
You have a phone with noise canceling, but it cancels your own voice. You have a proximity sensor and it can't tell the phone you are far from it, and thus the noise canceling WILL FAIL.
Ridiculous.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/20204125#20204125
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