Comment on When Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml go down

• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For whatever reason (probably a mischievous one), “Handy” became the colloquial term for smartphone in Germany.

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  • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not just smartphones, Handy are all mobile phones.

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  • Pancito@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because Motorola was producing a product called handie-talkie, something like a walkie talkie, for the ww2.

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• mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hell no. I just extended and send him the demands to his smartphone in a perfectly secure way (unencrypted *.ical file).

  We will return here eta as said. Hopefully you guys will comply… For our combined future!

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