Weird speaker phenomenom

[Andrewdroid]

Very strange thing I noticed. I can actually amplify the volume on my captivate by simply holding my palm near (but not blocking) the speaker so the sound bounces off my palm. It becomes noticeably louder when doing this, compared with holding the phone another way.

Try it with any random Youtube music video. (My favorite at the moment is the Charlie Sheen Winning Song. )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg
♫Win here, Win there, Win Win Everywhere!♫

 

[Frisco]

Yeah.. the OP seems more of a Lounge topic than a Captivate topic.

Moved.

 

[Outlaw71]

It's just bouncing the sound around directly at your ears, not making it any more loud. You can do the same thing with your hand. I do that with my DX all the time.

 

[Gmash]

Yeah I do that with my ascend all the time.

 

[Thefoodman52]

This is a phenomenon? By gods hands, I'm in inventor!!

Seriously though. That's just common sense to be honest. Sound exits from the rear or the phone. You hold the front of the phone facing you. Of course you won't hear the sound as loud if you didn't redirect the sound with your hand to the front...

Heck, I did this quite literally the first day I had my moment back in those dark days.

 

[Hrethgir]

There was an attachment you could buy for thr iPhone that did something similar. On those, the speaker is on the bottom and send the sound to the side, and this was just a little clip-on thing with a tunnel that aimed the sound to the front of the phone. Never bought it, I just used my hand like I still do with the DX.

 

[Gmash]

There was an attachment you could buy for thr iPhone that did something similar. On those, the speaker is on the bottom and send the sound to the side, and this was just a little clip-on thing with a tunnel that aimed the sound to the front of the phone. Never bought it, I just used my hand like I still do with the DX.

That's hilarious. I'm sure if it had the little apple logo on it plenty of people still paid out the ass for it. Lol

 

[bigbadwulff]

The sound is coming at you instead of away from you. And?......

 

[Hrethgir]

That's hilarious. I'm sure if it had the little apple logo on it plenty of people still paid out the ass for it. Lol

Actually, no Apple logo, it was made by a third party, and only $8. If I used the speaker more often, I probably would have bought it.

ThinkGeek :: SoundClip iPhone Audio Booster

 

[Gmash]

Actually, no Apple logo, it was made by a third party, and only $8. If I used the speaker more often, I probably would have bought it.

ThinkGeek :: SoundClip iPhone Audio Booster

Thats really not that bad. I guess I was picturing some big funky contraption.

 

[EarlyMon]

The mechanism is called horn-loading, and the reason it's louder is given here -

Horn loudspeaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bending the sound to the front is simply how it looks.

You could cup your ears to make it louder instead - same thing.