From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   micky  wrote:   
   > 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!   
      
   I'm glad you managed to get yourself out. This should be a strong incentive   
   to actually carry a phone all the time.   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   Thousands is less then the millions a mobile service provider supports with   
   less. They still have to pay their staff to be available 24/7. I can   
   wholeheartedly recommend these services as they are genuine life-savers. In   
   the UK/EU at least. Many local councils run a subsidised service.   
      
   Commercial providers are usually under £20 pm.   
      
   I thoroughly recommend you tell family or close friends of this incident so   
   they know you're at risk of falls.   
      
   > 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. .   
      
   I mean that's your choice, but dying needlessly at home over penny-pinching   
   seems daft to me. It does seem to be the "American Way"™ , however.   
      
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