How many of you have used your phone like a Communicator IRL?

[Kamen Rider Blade]

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Communicator

I've been known to hold my phone and communicate via speakerphone just like Archer's small flip top communicator or Kirk's bigger and bulkier 70's styled flip top communicator.

My phone is a Google Galaxy Nexus however, so I have to flip it upside down if I'm using speaker phone.

I know my Mom prefers to use her smart phone this way.

I have a tendency to do this only on occasion.

Have any of you done this with your phones? If so, how often?

 

[6079SmithW]

I have a flip phone and always open and close it Trek Style.
I also hold it like Kirk and Archer did when talking, in front of my mouth instead of by my ear.

 

[The Castellan]

Well, I close it like Kirk does, but I pretty much have the phone away from my head, and a normal pair of headphones, to hell with a Bluetooth, and often speak into the headphone's microphone.

 

[Elder Knight]

I've often wished that I could get Commander Scott to beam me out of here (wherever it was).

It doesn't work.

 

[Tiberius]

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Communicator

I've been known to hold my phone and communicate via speakerphone just like Archer's small flip top communicator or Kirk's bigger and bulkier 70's styled flip top communicator.

My phone is a Google Galaxy Nexus however, so I have to flip it upside down if I'm using speaker phone.

I know my Mom prefers to use her smart phone this way.

I have a tendency to do this only on occasion.

Have any of you done this with your phones? If so, how often?

Do I ever use my phone like a communicator? Well, in the sense of using it to talk to people a long way from me, yes, I do that all the time.

 

[Gary7]

I used to have a Motorola E-815, a flip style cell phone with reasonably large form factor enough to pass as a "communicator" like device. I changed the way the lid worked so that it wouldn't auto-answer the call when opened. I then used a ringtone that made a few alert beeps followed by the lid-flip chirp, and I'd time it with answering the call so that it would make the chirp sound when I flipped open the phone. I'd then press the "answer" key, almost like the way the control knobs would be used on the communicator. The only thing missing was the phone looking like a communicator.

Later, I upgraded to an LG Lotus, which looked even more like a communicator, in terms of shape. I'd applied a skin to the lid with a gold vent hole pattern that looked like the TOS communicator, with the base in matte black. For the lid external LCD, I had a moire image in place. Looked really cool, and I did the same lid setting that I had on the E-815. It was fun for a while, but then kind of got old.

Anyway... I've moved onto a smart phone so the lid flipping days are over. I've seen an Android app that makes the dialpad screen look like a communicator, but it's kind of lame.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't "use" my iPhone like a communicator (since it doesn't flip, that would be difficult ), but it does have the noise as a ringtone.

 

[sbk1234]

It's why I first got a flip phone.