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Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number"

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups uk.telecom.mobile, comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number"
Date 2025-03-06 19:28 +0100
Message-ID <t36p9lx24e.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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On 2025-03-06 16:42, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
>> On 3/5/2025 1:03 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
>>> Newyana2 wrote:
>>
>>> calling them "computer cellphones" just sounds odd.
>>
>>      Not as silly as "smartphone". :)
> 
>    Doesn't matter. It's the common, accepted, <whatever> name. Using some
> *other* made up name (like "computer cellphones") is silly. (BTW, most
> non-US countries say 'mobile phone' instead of 'cellphone'. The 'cell'
> aspect is mostly irrelevant and often hardly applies.)
> 
>    Analogy: I have a laptop, which hardly ever if ever, is on my lap.
> 'Notebook' isn't really ay better. So everybody says 'laptop', end of
> story.

"portable", at least in one of those places where we say 'mobile phone' ;-)


>> It's basically a computer that can make phone calls.
> 
>    And many, many things which a normal computer can't do, so while it
> obviously is a computer - many non-computer things are - it's only
> confusing to call it a computer.

It is a hand held computer that can make calls, is connected to 
internet, is aware of its location, orientation and movements. It can 
also take photos. And it runs applications that use any of that, even in 
the middle of nowhere.

  :-)

And we call it "smartphone".

For example, a computer that knows the location and the current movement 
can give you instructions in the middle of a forest. You can take a 
photo of a plant and it identifies it. There is a large amount of new 
applications that make sense inside a smartphone, but not in a computer.

> 
>> Mainly they're used for apps and online operations. Mine
>> has Firefox installed.
>>
>>> Before smartphones, there were e.g. the Nokia 9000 series
>>> "communicators" which had email and web-browsing in mid '90s.
>>
>>     I'm sure there were all sorts of niche items. But that's not
>> the context here. The point was that only in recent years
>> have most people been using texting and apps on computer
>> phones, to such an extent that everyone is assumed to
>> have one handy at all times. That's what we've been talking
>> about -- how hard it is to not use a cellphone. Some Brits and
>> Spanish people are claiming they can't live at all in the modern
>> worls without a cellphone. I don't believe that's true, but I
>> do know that more and more things require a cellphone.
> 
>    I don't think "Some Brits and Spanish people" have claimed that, but
> yes, many say that smartphones have a lot of useful functionality, which
> is often not available in other devices / by other means. So that's why
> they buy them and use them.

Yep.

> 
>    See Carlos' resonse where he describes that at first he was 'against'
> smartphones and smartwatches and now he has his (at least) second
> generation of both.

:-)

I think I have developed the strategy of initially buying a cheap 
version of these gadgets, explore their usage to me, then perhaps buy a 
better one, with more knowledge of what I want and need.


>    My story is about the same and so is my wife's.
> 
>    All this brings me to your frequent [1] 'smartphone-addicts' rants:
> 
>    Could you please explain how it's OK for you to use your computer 'all
> the time', but in some mysterious way, it's not OK for others to use
> their smartphone 'all the time'?
> 
>    I use my car 'all the time'. I use my watch 'all the time'. I watch TV
> 'all the time'. I read the newspaper 'all the time'. I hope that's
> allright with you.

:-)

> [1] Not so much the one I'm responding to, but also that has a bit of
> it. To be fair, I seem to notice a slight change to the positive.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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  Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-03 10:47 -0500
    Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" David Rance <david@SPAMOFF.invalid> - 2025-03-03 17:13 +0000
      Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-03-03 17:33 +0000
        Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" David Rance <david@SPAMOFF.invalid> - 2025-03-03 18:20 +0000
  Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Nick Finnigan <nix@genie.co.uk> - 2025-03-03 15:54 +0000
  Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-03 17:25 +0000
    Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-03 14:04 -0500
      Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-03-03 19:28 +0000
        Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-03 21:36 +0100
      Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-03 21:35 +0100
        Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-03 17:35 -0500
          Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-04 02:49 +0100
            Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-03-04 08:07 +0000
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          Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-03-04 08:13 +0000
            Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-04 08:09 -0500
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                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-05 10:42 -0500
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-05 16:51 +0000
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2025-03-05 17:21 +0000
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                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-05 16:00 -0500
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" David Wade <dave@g4ugm.invalid> - 2025-03-05 22:07 +0100
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-06 15:42 +0000
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-06 19:28 +0100
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2025-03-05 18:23 +0000
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                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Abandoned Trolley <that.bloke@microsoft.com> - 2025-03-05 21:03 +0000
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                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-05 08:12 -0500
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-05 13:29 +0000
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                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-03-05 13:25 +0000
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-05 14:57 +0100
                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-03-05 14:10 +0000
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        Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-03 21:40 +0100
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  Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2025-03-06 01:56 +0000
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      Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-06 11:09 -0500
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        Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-06 19:36 +0100
          Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-07 09:17 -0500
            Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-07 16:16 +0100
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                Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number" Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-03-15 08:35 -0400
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