Let's make a new name for cellphones!!

[Syzygys]

1. I do. Also it doesn't sound cool. Nobody is using "smartphone" anyway.
2. This website is international. Almost every term is shortened in txt, which is what these devices used for most.
3. Or not, see above. See Itouch. Plenty buyers of that, because they can't afford the Iphone.

Any other observations?

 

[baftan]

British people call this gadget as “mobile phone” or shortly “mobile”. However, as it is indicated in OP, these gadgets are more than phones now. So calling them cell, or mobile will not make any harm, plus, they are in rapid evolution. I suspect in near future they will become more comprehensive and small; they would even become part of our bodies. Our bodies will be integrated with these gadgets or their components (earphone and microphone will be a tiny sticker spots and visual issues will be projected through iris). That’s why my suggestion would be “personal integration device” (PID) Temporarily of course…

 

[temur]

Are they called bio-implants or something?

 

[draqon]

in russian its "mobilnik"

 

[codanblad]

Infophone

Omniphone

Intelliphone

skynet

 

[codanblad]

British people call this gadget as “mobile phone” or shortly “mobile”.

same in australia.

 

[draqon]

same in australia.

well duh Australians are Englishmen.

 

[Dywyddyr]

well duh Australians are Englishmen.

So why is called a cellphone in the USA?
Americans are just as English as Australians.

 

[draqon]

So why is called a cellphone in the USA?
Americans are just as English as Australians.

too much foreign influence...french, germans, russian, spanish...etc

thats why there is ft not m.

 

[Dywyddyr]

too much foreign influence...french, germans, russian, spanish...etc

Oh right, it's like there's any "foreigners" in Australia
Nonsense.
Aussies are no more "English" than Americans.

thats why there is ft not m.

"ft"?
"m"?

 

[Stryder]

Idiocrasizer's.

I left out the caption:

"The organiser for Idiots."

 

[Fraggle Rocker]

So why is called a cellphone in the USA?

We're notorious for having different words for technology in the two dialects. E.g., American flashlight, elevator, (car) hood, wrench, stroller, truck, (electrical) ground vs. British torch, lift, bonnet, spanner, pram, lorry, earth.

Americans are just as English as Australians.

Australia is one of the 53 countries in the British Commonwealth of Nations. The USA is not. Aussies use the British versions of the words on my list, in addition to slang terms like "mate" instead of "buddy."

too much foreign influence...french, germans, russian, spanish...etc. that's why there is ft not m.

Wait... It's the "foreigners" who invented and popularized the metric system. Feet, acres, pounds, quarts and degrees Fahrenheit are called British units. On that one issue, we're more British than the British. Some day they'll be sending their grandchildren here on sabbaticals for immersion in authentic British nostalgia, e.g measuring auto fuel consumption in miles per gallon instead of liters per hundred kilometers.

It's a shame we don't have shillings and guineas and ha'pennies.

 

[Dywyddyr]

We're notorious for having different words for technology in the two dialects

That was my point to Draqon.

Australia is one of the 53 countries in the British Commonwealth of Nations. The USA is not.

So by that logic Bangladesh and Belize, for example, should be using "mobile" instead of "cell" (or whatever they do use)?
My point was that whichever word is used has very little to do with any notional "allegiance" to a particular mother country, otherwise Aussies wouldn't talk about tinnies and a barbie being dinkum...

It's a shame we don't have shillings and guineas and ha'pennies.

Pfft, you forgot about farthings and groats.

 

[Jozen-Bo]

Blah Blah Box

 

[Blue_UK]

けいたい

 

[Syzygys]

People, I have decided, "smarty" it is.

Now go out and promote it...

 

[Dywyddyr]

People, I have decided, "smarty" it is.
Now go out and promote it...

Been done, copyright problems.

 

[quadraphonics]

1. I do. Also it doesn't sound cool. Nobody is using "smartphone" anyway.

Says you. In the circles I run in (i.e., telecom infrastructure R&D), everybody calls them smartphones. To the extent that the public hasn't picked up on the term, it seems to be because they don't use a general term for smartphones at all: they simply refer to their iPhone or Blackberry as such. The need for a blanket term will arise in a few years, as more and more products enter the sector.

2. This website is international.

Indeed, and the British way of talking is unpopular in the vast majority of countries. Could be colonial hangover, or just the fact that speakers of English from the British Isles sound like jackasses.

Almost every term is shortened in txt, which is what these devices used for most.

These devices are used most for voice calls, the odd twitter-happy teen notwithstanding.

See Itouch.

What does the iTouch have to do with anything? People also buy a lot of laptops, Nintendo DSs, and iPod shuffles, but none of that has any bearing on what we should call smartphones/cellphones.

 

[Syzygys]

Been done, copyright problems.[/IMG]

Actually 2 completely unrelated products can have the same name, see Apple (also a Brit record company) or Omega (band and watchmaker) as example.

Not to mention it is not a brandname but a collective name for a special device. Short of like hoover eventually became...

 

[Syzygys]

These devices are used most for voice calls, the odd twitter-happy teen notwithstanding.

I bet you they are used more for texting. Phonecompanies definiately make more money on the text department...

What does the iTouch have to do with anything?

It was a counterargument to your statement...

Anyhow, smarty it is.