From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In comp.mobile.android, on Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:43:11 +0200, "Carlos   
   E.R."  wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-10-20 21:27, micky wrote:   
   >> Intro: Friday night at home I tripped and fell into a confined space, on   
   >> my side, After trying to get up for 2 hours, I started thinking.   
   >>   
   >> Couldn't call my best friends, they're out of town.   
   >> Couldn't call my neighbors, I don't know any of their numbers by heart.   
   >> (they are in the computer, not in the phone.)   
   >> Aha, I can call the police.  I know their number!   
   >>   
   >> Wait!  What am I thinking.  I don't have a phone. (And if I could get to   
   >> the phone, I wouldn't need any more help.)   
   >>   
   >> So the next day, I started looking. There is some company that   
   >> advertises but I could't remember their name I tried mini-phone but had   
   >> to add "for medical emergency" to find what I wanted.   
   >   
   >Here, emergencies is 112. Any emergency. They will figure out whether to   
   >call the police, the fire brigade, an ambulance... and in any city.   
      
   I did remember the number 911, but later realized I had no phone!   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 5 major companies, none of whose name I remembered, despite those   
   >> commercials. (Maybe I've really learned to ignore commercials. I hope   
   >> so.   
   >>   
   >> Question.  They want 29 to 40 dollars a month for the service!   I pay   
   >> only $15 for my cell service and that lets me call anywhere, not just   
   >> that one number,  I could call the police myself, for example.  And my   
   >> phone gives the weather, music, movies, all for $15/month.   
   >>   
   >> They will say that they give personal attention when you call. but some   
   >> years, most people will never call them.   
   >>    Or they will call once.  The operator will answer, promptly I hope. I   
   >> wouldn't want to be put on hold at that price.  She will probably know   
   >> who is calling and where I live but she will verify it.  She will know   
   >> how to call the police in every city and county in the USA, and she will   
   >> call them and repeat what I told her.   This all will take between 5 and   
   >> 10 minutes.  Then she won't hear from me for another year.   
   >>    or some will call 5 or 10 times a year, but if it's up to 10, they   
   >> probably shouldn't be learing alone anyhow.   
   >>   
   >> I think they may expect you to pay the cellular company separately.   
   >>   
   >> How come no cheaper competitor has shown his head?.   
   >   
   >You pay for the person on call. I have seen some of the devices. It is a   
      
   Yeah but they probably have thousands of subscribers, who only all them   
   once a year on average.   
      
   I guess I'd rather die than spend $348/year for full service, so I'm   
   probably going to get a smart watch for 60, a one time payment, once I   
   find out if I need to have my android phone on at the same time. .   
      
   >pendant or a bracelet, and can use the land line with a speaker. If the   
   >person does not respond, they send some one from the 112.   
   >   
   >Maybe a smart watch can be programmed to automatically connect to the   
   >smartphone and make a call. I heard about some iPhones making automated   
   >calls to emergencies.   
   >   
   >Red Cross has such a service or gadget.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Google went from letting you copy the text, to copying the URL, to   
   putting the translate box right on the original page.  It's so easy that   
   I end up using it even when I can read Spanish pretty well on my own.   
      
   And apparently I can speak it.  Did I tell you that I went back to   
   Guatemala for 3 weeks this past Juanuary and I got a couple complemments   
   on my Spanish.   And one time while checking into a hotel she told me   
   there was a quinciniera and there would be a lot of ruido, and even   
   thought I hadn't heard the word for 53 years, and it's not a cognate   
   with English afaict, I knew the the word.   
      
   Later, when I was returning the car, they took pictures before and after   
   and supposedly let the computer find the dents, and she was telling me   
   about it and out pops from my my mouth, No daño, no daño.   A word I had   
   not used, read, or heard in 53 years. Amazing.     She went out and   
   wiped some dirt off the passergner side door and ageed it was dirt not   
   damage (although I had just had the car washed the previous afternoon,   
   and had not been any place dirty or dusty, so I am dubious.)   
      
   >There is no mention of the cost in the page. But the Google AI finds it:   
   >   
   >The price of Red Cross telecare varies depending on the service, with   
   >the mobile option for smartphones costing €10/month and the basic home   
   >option costing between €15 and €30/month. There are other options, such   
   >as Security (with key holding), which can cost around €32.50/month,   
   >depending on the home telecare fees. For detailed information and to   
   >request the service, call the toll-free number 900 100 333 (Spain).   
   >   
   >   
   >Translated with DeepL.com (free version)   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> BTW I got myself out, as you can probably tell, but it took hours and   
   >> hours, though I slept very nicely for 4 of those hours.   
      
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