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Do you still call your personal hand-held electronic communications device a cell phone?

I call mine a two-way radio.

Posted - August 10, 2019
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  • 17604
    The service is cellular, signals jump from cell to cell.  The phones are mobile phones.  
      August 10, 2019 4:14 PM MDT
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  • 3719
    It's short for "cellular network", the American term for the way the system works.

    Yes, they are called "mobile" in the UK, but they are not mobile!

    It only shows whoever dreamt up the term was unable to differentiate between mobile and portable, and even if anyone did point it out, you don't expect an IT or telecommunications company and its advertisers to take any notice.

    If the standard of English in BT's advertising and on parts of its Internet service are a guide, I am not at all surprised at such things.  
      August 10, 2019 2:07 PM MDT
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  • 17604
    The network is cellular (that's not just a term) and the phones that work on cellular service are indeed mobile phones.  
      August 10, 2019 4:10 PM MDT
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  • 17604
    You are correct.  The network is a cellular network.  The phones that work on a cellular network are mobile phones.  Americans are being retrained.
      August 10, 2019 4:15 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    My god....I had a feeling that my phone was mobile when I found it in my pocket while I was out and about in the middle of nowhere and it still worked...lol
      August 10, 2019 4:57 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    Yes.
      August 10, 2019 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 1817
    i call it note 9 because that's what it is 

    so when i lose it four times in one day I'm like "where note 9 be at" "note 9 note 9 where art thou note 9"
      August 10, 2019 1:49 PM MDT
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  • 34331
    Yes....cause that is what it is.
      August 10, 2019 2:02 PM MDT
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  • 11036
    I don't call it; it calls me.
      August 10, 2019 2:09 PM MDT
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  • 44628
    Who are you...Chuck Norris?
      August 10, 2019 5:20 PM MDT
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  • 10653
    I call mine Jack.  Makes for interesting conversations.

    Q: "Do you have your phone?"

    A:"No, I ain't got Jack."



      August 10, 2019 2:17 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    Big Giggles!
    I named mine, too!

    The name of yours is hilarious!

    "Good Call!" This post was edited by Merlin at August 10, 2019 6:35 PM MDT
      August 10, 2019 3:22 PM MDT
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  • 10026
    I do call it from Don's phone, a lot.  I misplace it A Lot.  When I am talking about it, I address it as 
    I-nstine because it's an iphone and can do many more things than I know how to do on it, with it, for it, or because of it.
      August 10, 2019 3:49 PM MDT
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  • 17604
    It is a mobile phone, not a cell phone.  The network is cellular.  The phones are mobile.  
      August 10, 2019 4:08 PM MDT
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  • I call it “my mobile”  like a normal person -_- who calls it a cell phone?? Lol 
      August 10, 2019 5:41 PM MDT
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  • 3719
    Americans do... and Britons call 'em "mobile" only thanks to some barely-literate advertiser. (They are portable, not mobile.)

    I call mine "portable", and a couple of times have had had people say, "Don't you mean 'mobile'?", to which I say, "Well, it doesn't have wheel and a motor, does it!" They usually end up looking flummoxed.

    Until it relaxed the rule a little, my employer had a notice in the Reception, saying "Portable Telephones Are To Be Switched Off". Hooray! Well you'd expect correct terms in a company specialising in sophisticated electronic engineering.  
      August 11, 2019 2:23 AM MDT
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  • 13277
    I don't call it. Other people call it and I call other people on it.
      August 10, 2019 5:44 PM MDT
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