Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

SolacefromSilence

I call mine by where it's made, as I do my Davenport.

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It should have been PDAs. For some reason that just didn't catch on.

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You have, like, seen my post history, right?

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They didn't catch on because in the era they existed it was very difficult to achieve any kind of connectivity with them to the outside world. By the time that was able to be ubiquitous, smartphones were already happening.

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Is the term "Pocket PC" still trademarked? Let's start calling them that.

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Maybe since you can do your entire Job on it we can call it a hand Job

Or perhaps since we have it in our fane all day we can call it a facial.

Or since we watch so much porn on it we can call it a video player.

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Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me...

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Computing, Computing...beep boop sqeeek, computation compleat: this is not a tape.

Undearius

Portable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.

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In German, a phone is called a "Handy"

mechoman444

No it's not... Because we know what a cellphone is.

In star trek they called it tapes because they didn't know what they would be called in the future.

Moreover, it's called a cellphone as a colloquial term. They're correct nomenclature is "smartphone".

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To me, I've always associated the PDA with devices w/o the phone capability, pre-smartphones. Those existed. Looked similar to modern smartphones, just bulkier and with less capability. That's been the distinction for me.

Frankly, the only other word for (cell)phone or mobile has been smartphone. I don't think we have a better word for them yet (pocket computer just doesn't grab you).

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In America, a handjob is called a "Handy"

darkstar

We could make that an acronym!

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To jump on with this, sometime in TV, especially with sports broadcasts or recaps, I still hear hosts say something like, “let’s go to the videotape” even though basically no one is using tape anymore for these things.

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jago

You're going to play "moreover", and "nomenclature" then fuck up a "they're/their"?
Hang your head.

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This guy phones.

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Germans call it a handy.

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In Germany, they employ the whole person, not just the hand!