| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Poll: How many mobile phones do you have? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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One for personal use. Call me a Luddite, but I don't do any business by telephone or text. I keep records of email exchanges with clients on my computer, where I can refer to them if a question arises.
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One for personal use. Like Muriel, I don’t use my mobile phone for work, except for checking my emails when I go out.
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I share two phones with my husband. They have different subscriptions with different terms. We use one mostly when we are travelling, and it has a lot of data, while we use the other most in Denmark, as it offers other advantages. I dislike them both, but get on better with the one with data!
They are only for private use, although a couple of trusted clients have the number of the one we use when travelling.
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for all purposes, but I don't use it that much.
But I also have a landline, which I prefer.
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One for personal use and none for professional use. I have a professional land line to separate professional from private calls. I could actually put an app to receive calls to this VOIP number on my mobile but have never felt the need to do so, as the majority of my business communication is by email and I use webmail on my mobile whenever not at home during office hours.
| | | | svetlana cosquéric 
France
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one for Russia and one for other countries : different subscriptions with different terms, appliances, etc.
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:51
Member (2008)
Italian to English
One outdated iPhone that I never use and never carry with me when I go out, because I hate having anything in my pockets, especially anything heavy like a phone.
Added to which: unless I also carry my glasses, I would find it impossible to use the phone.
My main reason for having it is that some banks and certain government agencies require you to have a mobile phone number in order to log in.
Sometimes it can be handy for texting people you don't want to... See more One outdated iPhone that I never use and never carry with me when I go out, because I hate having anything in my pockets, especially anything heavy like a phone.
Added to which: unless I also carry my glasses, I would find it impossible to use the phone.
My main reason for having it is that some banks and certain government agencies require you to have a mobile phone number in order to log in.
Sometimes it can be handy for texting people you don't want to actually speak to.
For voice calls, I prefer landlines because the audio quality is better.
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Mr. Satan (X)
English to Indonesian
| One for everything | Jan 3, 2022 |
Some clients I worked with preferred to communicate via WhatsApp or Skype. I also need my phone to check emails when I was away from my PC. But other than that, I don't really use it much.
Tom in London wrote:
My main reason for having it is that some banks and certain government agencies require you to have a mobile phone number in order to log in.
I was required to have a smartphone just to receive my COVID-19 vaccine certificates. They refused to send them via email. What has the world turned into?
[Edited at 2022-01-03 16:40 GMT]
| | | | | One is enough | Jan 3, 2022 |
I have one phone for my whole life. I'm no Luddite (plenty in this thread though if you need their perspective) but I also don't have so much going on as a freelance translator to need to separate things much more than I already do.
Since I prefer not being chained to my desk when I don't have to be, my mobile phone is crucial to me accepting projects quickly and easily when I'm on the go (which is most of the time I'm not working). My phone is considered a business expense as I rea... See more I have one phone for my whole life. I'm no Luddite (plenty in this thread though if you need their perspective) but I also don't have so much going on as a freelance translator to need to separate things much more than I already do.
Since I prefer not being chained to my desk when I don't have to be, my mobile phone is crucial to me accepting projects quickly and easily when I'm on the go (which is most of the time I'm not working). My phone is considered a business expense as I really do use it mostly for this purpose.
One thing I no longer use is Skype. If you need to assign me a job or check availability, email is the way to do that. I am not interested in having my life interrupted by more dings and expectations of extremely immediate responses. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:51
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Wouldn't be able | Jan 3, 2022 |
Maria Silvestri wrote:
.....my mobile phone is crucial to me accepting projects quickly and easily when I'm on the go.....
I wouldn't be able to do that because in most cases I need to see the documents on a big screen, and/or access a range of applications, archived documents, etc., before I accept a project. None of that would be possible on a phone.
I have experimented with receiving all incoming emails on my phone but the result is chaotic because all my incoming emails, on my desktop computer, are filtered into about 100 different mailboxes and sub-mailboxes, including mailboxes for mails that arrive from individual clients that put up flags, give a notification with a particular sound that is specific to that client, etc. etc.
But none of this is possible on a phone. It just receives all my incoming mail and dumps it in one place. There is no option (that I know of) to create folders and subfolders. To find out which emails are important I would have to be scrolling my phone all day long.
Maybe that's what people are doing when I see them scrolling their phones all day long....
I suppose the one advantage of using a phone is that you could be out doing some shopping or whatever. But you would still need to be madly scrolling through your messages all the time, to see if any of them are about translations....
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| | | | | Busy bees and social butterflies | Jan 3, 2022 |
Tom in London wrote:
I have experimented with receiving all incoming emails on my phone but the result is chaotic because all my incoming emails, on my desktop computer, are filtered into about 100 different mailboxes and sub-mailboxes, including mailboxes for mails that arrive from individual clients that put up flags, give a notification with a particular sound that is specific to that client, etc. etc.
But none of this is possible on a phone. It just receives all my incoming mail and dumps it in one place. There is no option (that I know of) to create folders and subfolders. To find out which emails are important I would have to be scrolling my phone all day long.
Maybe that's what people are doing when I see them scrolling their phones all day long....
I suppose the one advantage of using a phone is that you could be out doing some shopping or whatever. But you would still need to be madly scrolling through your messages all the time, to see if any of them are about translations....
How many messages do you get?!
I probably get two work-related emails a day on average.
Bills tend to come in overnight. Friends use WhatsApp. No clutter!
One mobile, no landline.
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Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:
One for personal use. Call me a Luddite, but I don't do any business by telephone or text. I keep records of email exchanges with clients on my computer, where I can refer to them if a question arises.
Webmail can be quite convenient when away from home during office hours, in my experience. Sometimes one needs a CAT to check the contents and scope of a new project, but at least it's easy to let the client know you've seen it and will revert ASAP. Smaller projects for regular clients are easy to check in Word/PDF on the phone and accept when you're out of the office.
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Tom in London wrote:
I wouldn't be able to do that because in most cases I need to see the documents on a big screen, and/or access a range of applications, archived documents, etc., before I accept a project. None of that would be possible on a phone.
I have experimented with receiving all incoming emails on my phone but the result is chaotic because all my incoming emails, on my desktop computer, are filtered into about 100 different mailboxes and sub-mailboxes, including mailboxes for mails that arrive from individual clients that put up flags, give a notification with a particular sound that is specific to that client, etc. etc.
But none of this is possible on a phone.
First off, that email set up sounds nightmarish. I make use of similar functions like filters and labels in Gmail, and my mobile setup is pure Android, so it's seamless and very nice.
Most of the time, looking at documents quickly is not a big deal, and I can easily judge whether or not I at least want to say something like "thanks for the message, I'll review this file when I'm back at my desk."
| | | | Kamal Idkaidek
Local time: 00:51
Member (2019)
Hebrew to English
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I have 3.
1st is for personal use, 2nd for business and the 3rd for travelling, whenever we can go back to normal!
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