Re: is my phone ON or is it OFF?

On 4/30/24 10:01, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> wrote:

bad sector, 2024-04-30 13:21:
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On 4/30/24 05:57, Frank Slootweg wrote:

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    Are these scenarios even possible?
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    (AFAIK,) For a still active phone call: If the remote party 'hangs
up', the connection is terminated and the local phone will be 'on hook'
again.

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Once (when we were all driving used Chevvy-II's and Pintos with babies
in cribs or child seats) my sister-in-law got a call from her dad
telling her that they were welcome to visit any time (he lived on the
coast). She and her husband were very happy to hear that. But the old
fart kept failing to hang-up so several minutes after that call one of
them picked up the phone only to hear him say to someone physically
beside him "the Rockafellers are coming visiting".

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When they did not hang up, yes then this is possible - otherwise not.

    But that was a scenario with a normal (not mobile) phone with a
seperate handpiece/receiver (we Dutch call it the 'hoorn' (horn). As I
mentioned, (AFAIK, for the reasons I gave) such a scenario is not
possible for a smartphone (and probably also not for most 'dumb'/feature
phones).
    My take is that 'bad sector' just wants to ramble/vent.

Not really, what I want is CHANGE. The BlackBerry had not only real buttons but chicklety ones extremely well engineeered for that positive feel. My son had one, they *were disappeared* just when I was getting set to buy one! I had to do with a basic cell-phone with no texto even. I did what I needed done but a while ago it packed up so I wanted to buy another one like it but with texto capability. My provider said "FORGET-IT, we've been keeping your special low-end account for as long as you phone would last, now it's NOT renewable anymore". So I went and bought this android zFlip5 but it's a giga-letdown for too many reasons to mention and I think I will get rid of it. I can live without a cell-phone, my take is that demand will eventually force design improvements as well as open source non-proprietary OS'es developed by units walking on two legs. Meanwhile I call a spade a spade and I will let no apple, faecesbook or goongle steer my life, they already have way too much influence on my bowel movements.
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