> If you’ve ever felt the buzz of your phone against your thigh only to realize the sensation was entirely in your head I get what they're trying to say, but t

> If you’ve ever felt the buzz of your phone against your thigh only to realize the sensation was entirely in your head I get what they're trying to say, but the much more plausible explanation for "phantom phone vibrations" is actual phone vibrations. There are all kinds of things, electromechanical and software, interactive and non-interactive, that cause phones to vibrate. My current phone vibrates if you look at the fingerprint unlock sensor the wrong way. An old phone of mine would vibrate and wake up the screen randomly without any visible notifications and behaved strangely for weeks after exposure to a small bit of rain. My current phone regularly flashes transient notifications (I think maybe from a Motorola app?) that are gone faster than I can read what they are. The point is that, on average, software and hardware are both basically shit and do things that they're not supposed to do all the time.