>1. Using your phone as an actual phone (i.e., an audio only conversation with the thing held to your ear, or with a headset). As a side note, the thing held t

>1. Using your phone as an actual phone (i.e., an audio only conversation with the thing held to your ear, or with a headset). As a side note, the thing held to one's ear has become an issue, it is not the first time, lately, that I see people absentmindedly getting off the sidewalk to cross the road (of course not on zebra crossings or with a green light at an intersection) while holding a (large) phone to their ear thus covering with the phone and/or their hand the side from which the traffic comes, i.e. zeroing the possibility to see an incoming vehicle. Beside the distraction caused by the conversation, it is dangerous as they have their peripheral view completely blocked.