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> "Smartphone" has the wrong connotation. It suggests your expensive brick is a phone first, and can do smart things second. If you look at where the battery g
by gilgoomesh 11y ago
> "Smartphone" has the wrong connotation. It suggests your expensive brick is a phone first, and can do smart things second.
If you look at where the battery goes, that's usually an accurate distinction. If your screen-on time is less than 4 hours per day, you may spend 75% of battery on the cellular antenna. Everything else takes a lower priority.
Calling it a phone also efficiently distinguishes between smartphones and tablets or devices like the iPod Touch which are identical devices except for the lack of cellular antenna.
- provemewrong 11y agoThere are plenty of tablets with cellular antenna though (not all of them have voice call functionality, but that's mostly just a software limitation). And with VoIP and instant messaging apps even WiFi-only device can fulfill "phone" roles.