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Does it bug you when people still say cellphone over smartphone?
- Thread starter RisingStar
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I feel like naming it "fabricator" would cause way more confusion, whereas 3d printing even though paper and ink is technically 3d, is pretty simple to understand. But maybe it's bias because we're so used to the term now.
They do. I've low key been considering buying one of the recent releases of the old school Nokia brick as an emergency/back-up/burner phone and partly just for nostalgia too.
Cellular modular interactive audular phoooone
Edit: I love when people call them handies. I have a friend who always sounds preciously camp when he says wo ist mein handy.
Edit: I love when people call them handies. I have a friend who always sounds preciously camp when he says wo ist mein handy.
Bringing this up is almost just as pedantic as getting mad at cellphone vs smart phone.
I mean yes... Technically you're right. But c'mon.
Smartphones are a subset of cellphones. Your instructor sounds like a fool.
Personally I call them mobiles because I'm British.
Personally I call them mobiles because I'm British.
Just a phone lol
Imagine getting mad about that
Reminds me once when I worked at a diner a client asked for a cuban sandwich and me asking for what type of bread he preferred sent him into a 5 minute rant about the sabdwich only being acceptable in a particulr type of bread or else it wouldnt be a cuban sandwich, lmao.
Imagine getting mad about that
Reminds me once when I worked at a diner a client asked for a cuban sandwich and me asking for what type of bread he preferred sent him into a 5 minute rant about the sabdwich only being acceptable in a particulr type of bread or else it wouldnt be a cuban sandwich, lmao.
Just yesterday:
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This Nokia phone has a hidden charging case for included earbuds
HMD’s throwback phones get weird.
www.theverge.com
Just say phone? Why the need to be specific?
Edit: unless it's a paper or web form, then it would matter I'd say.
Edit: unless it's a paper or web form, then it would matter I'd say.
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Except in reverse, kinda.
I mean maybe this professor doesn't know that these are all still cellular phones? Otherwise I really don't get what he's riled up about.
No. That's the nittiest of nitpicks. Like absurdly nitpicky. A smartphone is a type of cellphone.
Your instructor must be fun at parties, he sounds like the embodiment of "well actually…"
Your instructor must be fun at parties, he sounds like the embodiment of "well actually…"
It is a phone that uses a cellular signal. It's a cell phone. Who cares, we know what he meant - it's like calling a game system an Xbox or Nintendo or a tissue a Kleenex. It's just something that made its way into the English language and became the defacto name for whatever.
It's mobile here, or it was. I only ever heard cell in American movies.
People call it something other than "phone" in casual conversation?
"Hey can I borrow your Smart Phone?"
"Hey can I borrow your Cell Phone?"
vs
"Hey can I borrow your phone?"
"Hey can I borrow your Smart Phone?"
"Hey can I borrow your Cell Phone?"
vs
"Hey can I borrow your phone?"
I've gotten used to just saying "my device" because there have been large swaths of Time in my life where the only 'phone' access I had was Skype on the DSi, PSP, or Google voice on a tablet. If not that I will just say phone to denote I have something with cellular capabilities and can be reached on it wherever.
If I go into detail for some reason its a cellphone.
but 99.9% of the time its just a phone(haven't even had a landline for 10ish years)
but 99.9% of the time its just a phone(haven't even had a landline for 10ish years)
Pretty much this. Even if via some pedantry they are not the same over such a small issue that I could barely care less regardless.
