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What should we call the "phone"?
- BerislavLopac 14y agoI've started to refer to my Galaxy S2, which has just a data plan card in it, as my "pocket computer". ;-)
- xmjw 14y agoI've noticed a lot of people tend to refer to them by the device type, 'have you seen my iPhone/Blackberry/Android' etc. But I think the concept of a 'phone' has evolved and the meaning of the word is changing/has changed. I don't hear people say 'smart phone' vs 'phone' anymore, but 'phone' vs 'feature phone'. Obviously I'm rather ignoring landlines...
- aychedee 14y agoThat exactly my point, we could easily just start using the word 'phone' to refer to all pocket sized computing devices. It would be anachronistic.
- aychedee 14y agoI also really hate the term "smartphone", which I probably should have mentioned.