Why did apple give such a low volume speaker to the iPhone?

[aphexacid]

if u go buy a china make phone, the speaker beats any of the others in the market like sony, nokia etc..

No. hold one there. you're dead wrong. if you've never heard or used some of the devices you're speaking of, you shouldnt speak period. you've obviously never heard, much less seen a Nokia N95. Stereo speakers, that are louder than any of my laptops. i use it as a stereo while playing poker, or outside relaxing. sony ericsson's also have VERY good quality speakers.

this china crap that your talking about, which you didnt even mention any particular phone at all....if your talking about that bootleg iphone, i've seen them, and theyre embarassing.

and to answer your question, how the hell are WE supposed to know why apple put these speakers in the iphone?? ask apple.

 

[PJF13]

I miss my SMS and e-mail's more often then not. In a quiet room all is well but any kind of noise and forget it. It would be nice if you could set it up to continually notify until acknowledged or some form of LED notification like Blackberry's have.

 

[mrtune]

I think the majority of the surrounding world would be happy that you (and they) can not hear your ringers.
Less noise pollution from little distorted speakers playing obnoxious sound files. Use your vibrator! (That's what she said)

I use the vibrator and the ringer. Neither are up to par IMO. The iPhone has the quietest ringer and vibrator when compared to other phones I have used, seen, or owned.

 

[KittyToy]

sorry don't have that problem, I happen to think after 1.1.3 that it's pretty loud, I never miss calls and often use the speaker to listen to music,hell it's louder than my sidekick speaker that's for sure.....

 

[MBHockey]

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right but they shouldn't be mutually exclusive (and they aren't)

 

[hexonxonx]

On my first iPhone bought on July 6, the speaker volume on that one would fluctuate all on it's own. One minute I could hear it ring when a call came in, 5 minutes later I would miss a call because I couldn't hear it ring. After a format, it would be nice and loud for a few hours, than low again till the next time I picked it up. I finally got tired of that and exchanged it at the Apple store in January. I got a new week 1 iPhone and the volume was and always is nice and loud. I can even hear when an email comes in while the iPhone is in my pocket while driving in the car.

Since then, I have bought two other iPhones, one a 16GB, the other an 8GB and both have nice loud volume as well. All three are now running 1.1.3, only the 16GB was 1.1.3 OTB.

You may wish to take it to the Apple store and let them have a look at it, they exchanged mine.