I have to agree with this as well. Being someone who is also hearing impared I find the lack of volume controll to be very disappointing. I have used the registry hack which gets me by, but I really feel like the cellular company and mobile phone developers are ignoring the fact that hearing impared people do exist and sometimes have a need for the technologies that the mobile smartphones have to offer. I work in the IT world and I use it very heavily to stay on top on e-mails and emergency support calls.
One other thing I have to add is the lack of battery life. My phone, which is a AT&T 8525, gets only about 6 hours of active use. So on a very busy work day my phone is just about dead before the day has even come to an end. I think that the mobile phone manufacturers should focus on decreasing power consumption so that you can at least depend on the phone to operate within a 8 - 10 hour timespan. I would find this to be adequate.
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I have to agree with this as well. Being someone who is also hearing impared I find the lack of volume controll to be very disappointing. I have used the registry hack which gets me by, but I really feel like the cellular company and mobile phone developers are ignoring the fact that hearing impared people do exist and sometimes have a need for the technologies that the mobile smartphones have to offer. I work in the IT world and I use it very heavily to stay on top on e-mails and emergency support calls. One other thing I have to add is the lack of battery life. My phone, which is a AT&T 8525, gets only about 6 hours of active use. So on a very busy work day my phone is just about dead before the day has even come to an end. I think that the mobile phone manufacturers should focus on decreasing power consumption so that you can at least depend on the phone to operate within a 8 - 10 hour timespan. I would find this to be adequate. OCDemonSeed