Has anyone else noticed that the size of your cheeks is in direct relation to the quality of sound your caller hears on your mobile phones?

The fatter my face gets, the further away the mouth piece is, thus the reason my mom says I mumble on the phone. Someone needs to invent a mobile phone for people with fat cheeks. Fat-cheek people need to make calls too.

Leave my ass cheeks out of this!

Assuming you're being serious, I can't believe your cheek size can change drastically enough to cause the effect you're claiming. Is your phone short and stubby? Maybe get something like a flip phone design that would slightly follow the contours of your face?

I'm being serious in a funny way...I think.

My mobile is my only home phone. I don't have a house phone. People are always HUH HUH HUH WHAT? (I just had a 20 minute conversation with Phish)

The thing is, when I use any phone, I don't push it against my skin because I learned long ago that this creates acne on my face. I used to tape those oil-absorbing sheets to my phones and change them regularly because the oil and dirt from the phone broke out my face. It worked, but those sheets are expensive and a pain to change.

So I just try to hold the phone away from my face. It's okay at work, but when I use my mobile, people can't hear me. I have to press the phone to my face, hence the monstrous zits.

I have a flip phone, a Katana, but when I first got it, I noticed it's ringer wasn't very loud. The first thing I did with it was download the famous Jaws ring tone. When it rang, I couldn't hear it, ever. Even in a silent room. It was so soft yet I had it on the highest level. So I changed the ring tone. I can hear it better, but it still NEVER rivels the loud rings I hear everywhere else. When we go into loud bars, my friends mobiles ring like sirens. Mine never does.

I've never questioned it before because I prefer a low ring, (much to my friends frustration). I don't like obnoxious rings. I'd rather it be delicate yet offer blinking lights, like it does now...even set on the highest level.

So I guess maybe my phone is broken? And I guess if it is, it's too late to take it back. I just thought maybe my cheek size had to do with it. I don't see other people pressing their phones into their faces.

The Katana is bluetooth enabled. Is one of those little bluetooth headsets out of the question? I know some people can't stand them, but most of them work superbly and it would solve the problem of the phone being mashed against your face. If you don't like how goofy the earpiece headsets look, just use it in the privacy of home.

Do your cheeks look anything like this?

I was picturing Satchmo.

I almost posted a picture of my fat cheeks.


God help me.

I have a LG CU500 with cingular err.... AT&T. I can't hear people and they can't hear me. I usually have to use speaker phone to talk to people. I am not sure if the phone is that bad or if it is AT&T. I had a $15 phone through Virgin Moblie and it was almost as clear as talking on a land line but service area was pretty limited. Talking to my g/f alot at the time was expensive so we went with AT&T with the hopes of dropping both our land lines. In January of 2009 I will be running as fast as I can from AT&T unless they improve greatly.

Although most bluetooth headsets do have it it is always good to make sure it has built in security or someone could just connect and listen to ya. Turn on bluetooth in a busy area and see how many different devices you can connect to.

Aren't you the one that said I'd be put in jail for accessing wifi in NYC!?

I remember contributing to the thread but can't remember what though.

Maybe, cuz youz a hackerz.