[Q] How do you talk?

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The question to all Streak users - since the device is quite big, how do you make calls/answer the incoming calls? Do you feel uncomfortable using the device? Please, vote in the poll as well.

I hold it to my head, yeah I said it. I do get wierd stares though. At least the screen turns off when your ear touches. Long conversations I always use ear piece though.

It actually does not feel bad holding it as a phone. And since the Streak is so large, the mic for the mouth piece is very close to my mouth.

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People laugh at me until I pull it feom my ear and they see how awesome the screen is etc. Then it ecomes eye candy. I had it 2 weeks ago at an ATT store and omeone asked how I was talking on a PSP. Then I showed them what it qas and they just loved it. Almost everyone in the store hax to play with it lol.

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Originally Posted by kevinwatson5

People laugh at me until I pull it feom my ear and they see how awesome the screen is etc. Then it ecomes eye candy. I had it 2 weeks ago at an ATT store and omeone asked how I was talking on a PSP. Then I showed them what it qas and they just loved it. Almost everyone in the store hax to play with it lol.

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Yeah, that's really funny!!! When my colleague (he is very slim guy) saw my Streak for the first time he also compared it with PSP then took my phone and rashed to the mirror holding it at his ears. I said that he looks ugly - this phone is not intended for slim guys with small heads...

I almost always use a bluetooth headset to talk on my streak.

I just started using mine today. It doesn't feel as weird as I thought it would holding it to my face.



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Does not bother me one bit i am very proud i have it

For long teleconferences I always use a headset no matter what the phone.

For short social calls I use the Streak directly.

I think the "people staring" thing is a myth, it's just me being awkwardly self-conscious and propagating the myth.

I do think it would be tough to market the Streak as a phone though because of the built-in prejudices everyone has that things must be smaller/thinner/faster etc. But it will struggle as a tablet because iPad pretty much is the baseline.

So Dell have an opportunity to define their own category and be the first in it. I hope they're smart enough not to kill the Streak but to stick at it and own the category.

Originally Posted by miker71

I think the "people staring" thing is a myth, it's just me being awkwardly self-conscious and propagating the myth.

you right! Even it isn't a myth, what do I care what they think. My Streak is better that their sorry excuse for a phone. They can kiss my a**. I dont tell them what to use. I gave up worrying about image a long time ago :D

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was going to reply to the OP query with "my mouth" but I'm feeling less sardonic than usual..

my mate was playing with my streak the other day and said "what you really hold it up to your ear?" then he gave it back to me and when I held it up to my ear he said "ok so it looks like a normal sized phone when you hold it"
I guess it helps if you can wrap your hand around it so that I can quite comfortably over touch forefinger to thumb in portrait mode...

the Streak isn't big.. all the other phones are abnormally small