Preston Crawford me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
I don't ride while listening to MP3s. It's dangerous. I like to hear traffic.
I don't know about you, but I use a single earpiece-mic (with button on mic) wire -- one ear. I then leave the other ear free for listening to traffic. Since I ride on the right side of the road (for those of us in the US), that earpiece goes in my right ear, leaving my left free to listen for traffic.
I can listen to my MP3s (not only music, but personal notes I take when I work), hear incoming calls (over any MP3 playback), answer incoming calls (pauses MP3s playback), make calls with voice dialing, etc...
About the only thing I don't do on the Linux PC is record the voice names and associate them with contacts for voice dialing. Everything else -- calendaring, contacts, MP3 uploads/playlist editing, etc.... is done on the MP3.
As I said, don't make excuses, I'm not asking for them. If you make excuses, I might share my "to each his own." But I will _never_ assert it's "the right tool for the job." It's just what I want, and what works for me.