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

Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

On 3/5/2025 12:21 PM, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

 
I "snipped out" the rest of your description of rapid change (whatever
that is) in the hope that somebody might clarify the claim that "Apple
invented computer cellphones in 2008"

 
   Is that wrong? I just looked it up. It was actually 2007.
Was there another computer cellphone before that? I'm
not aware of any. There were cellphones that could make
phone calls. But there were not apps, browsers, and so on,
as far as I know. I welcome correction if I'm mistaken.
 
   In other words, people could make phone calls on wireless
phones back in the 80s. But the cellphone lifestyle of banking,
shopping, getting directions, texting, etc is fairly recent.
(Remember that there's also the lag between when iPhone
came out and when computer cellphones became ubiquitous.)

  As Andy mentioned, there were mobile phones in the 90s, which had a
browser and could e-mail. They also had some built-in apps, like
calendars, note taking, etc., etc.. Some of them also had add-on apps.

  I used such mobile phones in the latter 90s and also used them as a
mobile modem. In the early 2000s, I used a Nokia 6310i [1] as a digital
modem ('thethering').

  That's why, as Andy also noted, saying "computer cellphones" when you
mean smartphones, is rather odd and confusing/ambiguous.

[1] 'Nokia 6310i' <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6310i>