Does it bug you when people still say cellphone over smartphone?

[RisingStar]

Currently in class right now and the instructor spent quite possibly 5-10 mins complaining about laggards still calling smartphones cellphones in a rather unrelated matter to the subject of the course.

I personally don't give a toss but the amount of participants on the Zoom chat going off as well; I'm actually curious if this is that big of a deal?

I personally interchange between the two, or just call it a bloody phone.

 

[5taquitos]

A smartphone is a cellphone

 

[Dark Knight]

no, that's silly

 

[Bazza]

Both are wrong it's a mobile.

 

[andymcc]

i've never heard anyone getting angry over this lmfao

 

[Pocky4Th3Win]

No, It bugs me more when I ask someone at work to look at their smartphone since its setting off our security and they respond with "I don't have a smartphone, I have an iPhone."

 

[NookSports]

I just say phone, and that's what everyone should use. It's the new default, it's the other kinds of phones that should be specified.

 

[Gvon]

I voted c. Everyone I know calls them mobile or phone.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

A phone's a phone. I don't care what you call it.

 

[Wrexis]

Phones were never called cellphones in Europe so it never bothered me. They were called mobile phones.
That still seems to be used over smartphones sometimes.

 

[5taquitos]

Also, I don't say I'm going to watch my Smart TV

 

[KtotheRoc]

No, I don't give a shit.

 

[gdt]

What

 

[Kaiser Swayze]

I call it "The Machine."

 

[Duane]

I just had a printer tech tell me on the phone to give him our address so he could MapQuest it

 

[Reym]

Gonna be honest, it's never even occurred to me to notice whether they did or not.

 

[PinkSpider]

Both are wrong it's a mobile.

Click to shrink...

I was about to say yeah in the UK it's just a mobile (Phone optional). It's generally a smartphone by default these days but if not it still does texts and shit.

 

[Royalan]

No.

Because how else am I going to say, "just hit me on my celly"?

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

I don't get it. Isn't it still a cellphone?

The Drake song must've sent them into a tailspin.

 

[Ouroboros]

No.

 

[Lulu]

Imagine this bothering you

 

[KarmaCow]

I'm pretty sure I have never heard anyone in my day to day life say smartphone colloquially. It's either cell, phone, or cellphone.

My dad calls them handphones which does make me irrationally annoyed.

 

[Kunka Kid]

That has got to be the lamest, nerdiest thing I have ever heard of

 

[Hollywood Duo]

I say mobile phone

 

[Apollo]

Fuck no lol. I still call it a cell phone

 

[thesoapster]

This is beyond dumb

 

[Suede]

I still say mobile.

 

[OrangeNova]

Mobilephone, smartphone, cellphone, Mobile, Cell, Phone.

All of the above relate to the same thing, unless you're doing something that requires granularity.

 

[Patryn]

Cellphone is a parent category that covers both Smartphones and Feature Phones. As such, all smartphones are cellphones, but not all cellphones are smartphones.

Regardless, Europe has it right and mobile is a much better term than cellphone, IMO.

 

[Kurita]

The one person that said yes needs to Chill lol

 

[Mr Jones]

It doesn't matter to me.

I was going to say that I absolutely don't care. But I cared enough to post in this thread.

It's a phone, that can do cool, futuristic stuff.

 

[J-Spot]

Portable phone.

 

[The Albatross]

smart phone is a dumb name anyway. Made sense 10 years ago to differentiate a new type of phone from what had existed.

I probably say "cell phone," "phone," "mobile phone" the most. I say "smart phone" a good deal less. Smart is all relative.

 

[Dyle]

No I do not get frustrated when people call a car an automobile

 

[bionic77]

Am I correct to assume that your life is pretty good if you have time and energy to get upset over what people call their cellphone?

 

[Kevers]

My mobile

No, I'm not a child.

 

[supkid]

Mobby

 

[steejee]

I don't know what your instructor teaches but they sound like an idiot.

A smartphone *is* a cellphone or mobile phone. 'Smartphone' is really just a marketing thing that's out of date since every phone nowadays is a 'smart' phone.

 

[ArrogantBastard]

Don't care what you call it, what bugs me is the people walking around in a store with it on speakerphone.

 

[JEH]

no? I say cell phone still. mostly just "phone" though.

 

[Truly Gargantuan]

This is even worse than the folk that correct you when you call their vehicle a car when they drive a truck. "I don't drive a /car/ it's a /truck/"

 

[Annubis]

I wonder who the 1 vote is

 

[Sai]

? people actually care about this shit? lmfao

 

[Perkin_Warbeck]

lol that's ridiculous. I'd like it if we could stop calling them "phones" since that's a tertiary function at best, but I don't expect that to happen. Though maybe EU people have it right by just calling it a "mobile." I think how Germans call it a "handy" is kind of fun.

I also wish we didn't have the name "3d printer". We could have had home "fabricators" but missed the boat. But a piece of paper with ink also exists in 3 dimensions! (he shouts into the void)

 

[Beanbeany]

It's a tellular celluphone

 

[machine]

I call it "The Machine."

Click to shrink...

Thank you

 

[808s & Villainy]

But Black Dynamite, I say cellphone!

 

[Kemono]

Then you'll love what germany is doing.

Some call it smartphone but most, the overwhelming majority, calls it a "handy".

 

[ohlawd]

if you say cellphone OR smartphone you should remove yourself from society. it's a phone straight up.

 

[plagiarize]

This made me look up why they were called cellphones in the first place, and it's because the network is distributed into various 'cells' each served by a 'cell tower' and unless I've gone mad that's still pretty much how things work.