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When did we stop calling things radios and start calling them mobile phones?
by jl6 4y ago
When did we stop calling things radios and start calling them mobile phones?
- pak9rabid 4y agoProbably with the transition from analog to digital.
- fIREpOK 4y agoDigital phones are still relatively new
- acdha 4y agoIt was much, much earlier than that - analog car or suitcase phones were well known before digital arrived. It was a trope in 80s movies or TV to have someone use one since it meant they were rich and/or important. My assumption is that the nomenclature came from buying one from the phone company. There were other radios around but they weren’t interoperable with the phone network.
- kube-system 4y agoI remember using analog cell phones, and everyone called them cell phones (or cellular phones).
- IncRnd 4y agoProbably when we could make calls to and from regular phone numbers from portable phones.