Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3A_=22=27Scammers_stole_=C2=A340k_after_EDF_gave_out_m?= =?UTF-8?Q?y_number=22?= Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:03:20 +0000 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net h+FVb2J0jJXs7h03upxg+Qv6UzUaXbvAr7FjNi1bmotoaIMvZ8 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SHuK0tja6ISiz/Z0x5bTTm72Jt4= sha256:KLeoB77aZ96qEe0OnpNvY3E5kGgp5AsZe1iEprBOOJE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Newyana2 wrote: > 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. calling them "computer cellphones" just sounds odd. Before smartphones, there were e.g. the Nokia 9000 series "communicators" which had email and web-browsing in mid '90s.