Sometimes I’ll set my phone down somewhere like in my car or room and then leave to go do something and my podcast cuts out, reminding me I forgot to bring my phone with me. Clutch saves

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    7 days ago

    Wireless CarPlay has that effect too. If you don’t see CarPlay maps on your dashboard then you know you’ve driven off without your phone.

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    7 days ago

    Yes, but not always.

    I was messing around in the garage, and put my phone down in the little gap below the windscreen wipers on my car. I forgot it there, hopped in the car, it paired, and away I went. Fortunately I habitually check my pockets, and I noticed it about 3 kms down the road, and before I got on the freeway.

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    7 days ago

    Wired headphones had the same benefit… Walk away too far and your phone is either yanking the buds out of your ears, or falling off whatever surface it was on, holding onto the cable for dear life.

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        7 days ago

        If you need radios to replace a meter of cabling on the same object - a person - you need to find an architect and apologize. They like Lego, so bring a small gift.

        Cables catching on doorknobs? Never had it, never seen it, never heard of it; not even in the walkman decades.

        Will a cable save my walkman from falling into the ocean when I lean over a stanchion to check on my diver and not cost me a yellow walkman and a new copy of orphan? Can confirm it will not. But neither will the radios.

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    7 days ago

    On the flipside, the rate at which I forget my phone in a different room has increased significantly since switching to wireless headphones…