It is a mobile computing device that happens to be able to take calls. "Smart phones" are "phones" in only so much that they can make phone calls. I've used my

It is a mobile computing device that happens to be able to take calls. "Smart phones" are "phones" in only so much that they can make phone calls. I've used my smart phone to make a call one time in the past 8 years. For me, it simply isn't a phone. Most of my peers use their mobile computing devices to browse the internet, schedule things, and play games. Very, very few of them use it to make phone calls and those that do are calling family or their SO a majority of the time.