Topic: The Cell Phone Thread

[OliverD]

The nice thing about having ample storage on your phone is you don't need to mess about with clouds.

Until you lose your phone and all your stuff is gone. 

[rrocket]

The nice thing about storing your photos on iCloud is that it automatically frees up space on the phone. For the most part it will just store the thumbnails and download the full photos as needed.

But didn't you say earlier there's a great many people too dumb to use the cloud?

[OliverD]

I don't think it's necessarily that they're too dumb, lots of people just don't know about it or distrust it in general.

[rrocket]

Clearly the phone company's fault!  (Insert sarcasm)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/parents-wireless-charges-phone-1.5077272

[dkaz]

How is a 16 year old racking up $5,000 in long distance charges in an age of Skype, FaceTime, and other instant messaging services?

[Ex-airbalancer]

How is a 16 year old racking up $5,000 in long distance charges in an age of Skype, FaceTime, and other instant messaging services?

He was told , he had unlimited calling arcoss Canada

[dkaz]

How is a 16 year old racking up $5,000 in long distance charges in an age of Skype, FaceTime, and other instant messaging services?

He was told , he had unlimited calling arcoss Canada

Is that what the contract they signed said? Nothing said without a paper trail is worth anything. I must've annoyed the crap out of my insurance broker a few weeks ago.

[Jaeger]

The nice thing about having ample storage on your phone is you don't need to mess about with clouds.

Until you lose your phone and all your stuff is gone. 

The number of cell phones I have lost - and I've had a cell phone since pretty much cell phones were a thing = zero.

[Gurgie]

The nice thing about having ample storage on your phone is you don't need to mess about with clouds.

Until you lose your phone and all your stuff is gone. 

The number of cell phones I have lost - and I've had a cell phone since pretty much cell phones were a thing = zero.

Yeah, I have a collection of them going at home right now... should really have sold a couple of them off 

[OliverD]

The nice thing about having ample storage on your phone is you don't need to mess about with clouds.

Until you lose your phone and all your stuff is gone. 

The number of cell phones I have lost - and I've had a cell phone since pretty much cell phones were a thing = zero.

Yeah I've never lost one either.

But there are other things that could happen, like having it stolen.

[Ex-airbalancer]

How is a 16 year old racking up $5,000 in long distance charges in an age of Skype, FaceTime, and other instant messaging services?

He was told , he had unlimited calling arcoss Canada

Is that what the contract they signed said? Nothing said without a paper trail is worth anything. I must've annoyed the crap out of my insurance broker a few weeks ago.

In the story his mom thought they had unlimited talk, she did not open the bill for two months
With Rogers we get notifications when we get close to the data limited
I am told with Fido , they shuts your data off once you reach the limited , and you can than buy more

[Ex-airbalancer]

The nice thing about having ample storage on your phone is you don't need to mess about with clouds.

Until you lose your phone and all your stuff is gone. 

The number of cell phones I have lost - and I've had a cell phone since pretty much cell phones were a thing = zero.

Did you have a bag phone ? 
Now that you wrote  you never lost one , you have  jinxed yourself 

[dkaz]

How is a 16 year old racking up $5,000 in long distance charges in an age of Skype, FaceTime, and other instant messaging services?

He was told , he had unlimited calling arcoss Canada

Is that what the contract they signed said? Nothing said without a paper trail is worth anything. I must've annoyed the crap out of my insurance broker a few weeks ago.

In the story his mom thought they had unlimited talk, she did not open the bill for two months
With Rogers we get notifications when we get close to the data limited
I am told with Fido , they shuts your data off once you reach the limited , and you can than buy more

There are no notifications for long distance use with any carrier I can think of.

[tenpenny]

A relatively simple fix would be to have the account holder be able to choose a maximum monthly bill, at which point, the carrier would turn off LD / Data services to the account.

Or, even better, have the system send a notification about the overages.  Oh wait, it already does that, and the kid just ignored them.

[Ex-airbalancer]

A relatively simple fix would be to have the account holder be able to choose a maximum monthly bill, at which point, the carrier would turn off LD / Data services to the account.

Or, even better, have the system send a notification about the overages.  Oh wait, it already does that, and the kid just ignored them.

The kid was not the owner of the bill

[Solstice2006]

The nice thing about having ample storage on your phone is you don't need to mess about with clouds.

clouds are great and the future of computing...at another location??...no problem, log in, all your stuff is there...get a new phone??...no problem, log in and all your stuff is there...lost your phone?...no problem, everything is backed up in the cloud.

in a few years, your "computer" will be little more than a slave device...all the processing power will be done elsewhere with cloud computing.

Isn't that what they said about paper?  But we use paper more than ever.  Same with books.  You can read books on all kinds of devices.  But more people prefer to have the physical book. 

[OliverD]

Do we use more paper than ever?

I think I use less.

[rrocket]

Yeah I've never lost one either.

But there are other things that could happen, like having it stolen.

If you don't use a cloud...and your phone was stolen...you'd lose all your photos on an iPhone too....what's your point?

I dunno...I prefer the option of having cloud storage PLUS giant, expandable storage. There's no downside.

[tortoise]

Do we use more paper than ever?

I think I use less.

Looks like we're using less but China is using more.

[OliverD]

Yeah I've never lost one either.

But there are other things that could happen, like having it stolen.

If you don't use a cloud...and your phone was stolen...you'd lose all your photos on an iPhone too....what's your point?

I dunno...I prefer the option of having cloud storage PLUS giant, expandable storage. There's no downside.

My point is you should be using the cloud.