Really? The sound is horrible...

As a homeless guy that hangs out at McDonald's everyday, this hits close to...well, not "home" 😅

I hate the people who get those shitty bluetooth speakers and blast them in public. The people who blast music from their phone's speakers are assholes, but you could still say that they don't have headphones on them, but the people with the speakers? They intentionally went out of their way to buy a device for the purpose of being a public nuisance. They're a special of asshole.

Music is horrible but how about when they are scrolling through shorts or tiktok whith blasting sound? Like a never ending spirit box

Always the shittiest, most tone-deaf trap/hip-hop music with the same exact snare drum riff on a loop. There's objectively good stuff from those genres out there, how do these people consistently find the worst?

Probably the music is horrible too, so...

I use it in my shop when I'm alone and want something to listen to other than my tools.

my problem with people who do this? they're listening to the worst possible music in a public space.

I see various forms of peacocking these days. The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.

Incidentally this meme captures my reaction when I see Clint Eastwood.

I am convinced most people are just walking around as blank eyed zombies that can only think about food, sex, and scrolling TikTok.

Theres a janitor at my work that sits in the break room all day blasting right wing tick tocks while people are on coffee break, its insanely annoying.

This is what happens when there is no headphone port

It's even worse when you hear it.

Yeah. The proper way is to hook up your phone to, and carry around, your $2500 speakers with gold plated cables or whatever.

Now seriously, I don't listen to music on the speakers because I'm mindful of other people, so I use headphones or simply don't listen to music

audiophiles and introverts in hard agreement in this one. handshake meme.

I'm neither and i dont mind listening to the classical radio station on my phone in my house, or seeing the odd cooky character passing by with their music for a moment. as long as they're only passing thru...

Some do that even in the train.

Bro did this on the train last weekend. I told him the conductors tell us to silence our phones out of respect for everyone else. Didn't do shit 😂

They are probably listening to low quality spotify streams or, worse, compressed mp3, so it's not as if a pair of headphones would make any difference in sound quality...

Although I would love if they kept their shitty music to themselves, I'm not interested in their crap.

Public transportation people who want to start a fight

While I would never listen to music in public on my phone speakers, I have to say that they are just as good as, if not better than, transistor radios I have had.

I'm mostly fine with music. But dammit put the phone to your ear when your on a call in public.

It's almost always immigrants where I live. I don't know what the fuck is up with that. Also doing video calls and yelling to their phone. It's mad

or worst, TALKING loudy on thier phone to someone, or have it speaker, nobody wants to hear your whining.

Besides it feels terrible, the sound lose all the qualities that make it feel decent.

Guy leaving the store this morning was holding his up to his ear while pushing a buggy with the other. Dude had four cases of soft drinks and he wont buy some cheap ear buds.

Literally only glitch-hop and lofi. Nothing that's intended to sound Good Should be played on phone speakers

While you should never do it in public, those phones with the virtual 3d sound field speakers are starting to get pretty decent to listen to music on. Still, never listen at higher volumes, cuz that breaks it. But it's pretty awesome for any volume level where it can manage the right level of base for the song.

Specifically what it's doing is making it so each ear only hears the part that is meant for it, and doesn't get the bleed over from the other speaker. Virtual stereo isolation, the Switch 2 also does it in standalone mode. But yeah, of course, that only works for the primary user, anyone in the wrong physical location relative to the speakers won't get the effect. And actually it'll just sound weird to them.

What about this phone?

This is what happens when they take headphones jacks away.
People just don't bother.

They want to inform the public of their incredible taste in music or their unfathomable depth of intelligence.

I still use my wired headphones that I got with my phone from 4 generations ago

ikr it's so tinny and weird. My monitor has pretty crap speakers but I'll take that over listening to music on a phone anyway lol

Yeah... And even when it's reggaeton.

Me too. It's just the worst. And a bluetooth speaker (I like the m83) is pretty darn cheap.

I like to put my phone on my shoulder(it's not loud enough from a breast pocket) and listen to music on podcasts while I work as headphones are a "safety issue", I honestly don't mind the sound quality

I wanna share this to all aunties of my town

I’m not defending this, and I know that me using an iPhone is going to be unreliable to 99.9% of Lemmy users, but once upon a time phone audio was in mono and it sucked. Idk if Apple did this first - I imagine they stole it from Android like every feature - but whoever had the idea to use the ear speaker as a second audio channel was a genius. Listening to music on iPhone speakers is like 100x better today than it was like 5 years ago.