Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — Need a new phone?

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (jackneve) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:44:35 +0000

Please define basic.

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (William) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:21:13 +0000

Albert Ross wrote:

William wrote:
It is a pity that the BBC calls it a "dumbphone".
Double standards.
William
What would you call it then William?

A basic mobile telephone.

William

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (jackneve) — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:54:48 +0000

What would you call it then William?

How about IQMean phone?

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (Albert Ross) — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 12:26:13 +0000

William wrote:

It is a pity that the BBC calls it a "dumbphone".
Double standards.
William

What would you call it then William?

The BBC is simply quoting what the majority of people call it, hence the phrase "so-called 'dumbphone''"

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (Joe) — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:17:45 +0000

I wonder what the minimum requirement is to be named a smartphone?

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (William) — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:36:53 +0000

It is a pity that the BBC calls it a "dumbphone".

Double standards.

William

Re: Need a new phone?

null@example.com (Albert Ross) — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:23:06 +0000

Thanks Eric, very interesting. I had no idea that you could still buy a non-smartphone, or a mobile as I like to call them.

Why does Ms West call dumbphones a "brick"? IMO they are less brick like than a smartphone. Occasionally I have picked up my wife's smartphone and found it to be quite cumbersome, having to pick it up and being careful not to press any of the buttons on the side for fear of turning it off. They do not sit comfortably in the hand for me being quite a big, wide rectangular thing. Phones of the 1980s were, by today's standards, massive, which is where the term "brick" was used. I wonder what Ms West would have made of them...

Need a new phone?

null@example.com (ericlnz) — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 22:57:56 +0000

Especially for Albert https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60763168