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> Does anyone actually say "smartphone" except (vanishingly rarely) when necessary to describe the device in contradistinction to "dumbphones"? True. My beef
by loup-vaillant 11y ago
> Does anyone actually say "smartphone" except (vanishingly rarely) when necessary to describe the device in contradistinction to "dumbphones"?
True. My beef isn't about "smart" however, it's about "phone". I believe my point stands even more acutely in this light.
- OJFord 11y agoSure, it was something of a side-point, but the more relevant point (which I may have forgotten to make..) was that in the UK 'mobile' is still common. Although actually a contraction of 'mobile phone', it doesn't have the same 'problem' going forward, since we can just decide or assume that it refers to a mobile computing device. Possibly though things will get even more blurred than that - everything a computing device and almost all of them mobile... Time will tell!