Smartphones - smart?

Simon Hornbachner lfodh at fsfe.org
Fri Jul 4 14:41:37 UTC 2014


Ahoy hoy *,

> 
> If however you need to specifically make a differentiation between
> phones from 2000s and phones from 2010s, well, let’s get creative
> -- but I don’t think we need to call them “smartphones.”
How about "touch-based cloud-enabled mobile computing devices"? ;)

But joking aside, in Austria I don't encounter this problem too often
since most people still call either phone simply "Handy" and only use
the term "smartphone" when they want to emphasize that it is… a
"touch-based cloud-enabled mobile computing device running Apps"

Maybe one could use mobile device for the TBCEMCDRA and ye goode olde
"cell phone" for the non-TB non-CE MD not RA. I've also heard them be
referred to as "dumbphones" (which only plays into the problem Hugo was
addressing) and "feature phones", which is OK I guess.

Regards,
Simon



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