When will we stop calling them phones ?

[Mick Mac]

Yes you can speak to people, but surely they are basically computers now or multi media centres.

It's like calling a car a cigarette lighter.

[steveo]

Rage against that machine Mick but I'm not sure it'll catch on

[the-e-dealer]

If a cigarette light had 4 wheels and and engine added yes that would be right.

Anyway Don't we all call them mobiles now?

And the phone in my living room is hardly a 'multimedia centre'

There is a computer in my washing machine - maybe I should call it a phone !

[StraferJack]

"When will we stop calling them phones ?"

around the same time we stop cling on a floppy disk icon to Save something

As if anyone under 20 knows what the hell a floppy disk is

[HonaloochieB]

I say we start calling them portables.

The campaign starts here - it will be abbrieviated to port and when lending it to anyone it can only be passed to the left.

[the-e-dealer]

Because we watch films and television on them how about Telephone?

[El Pibe]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> Because we watch films and television on them how

> about Telephone?

Err, wouldn't Television work better there?

HB, I thought that was a dutchie?

[the-e-dealer]

yup I'll give you a call on my television.

[Kailyn]

It's gotten to the point where when I have to look up a contact or make a call, I actually have to think about where to go in my phone. Twitter, gmail, chrome, all are instinctual. And yet I still call it a phone.

[stacey-lyn]

Cell. Not purely as the diminutive of cellular phone but because Cell is a Marvel character with mutant powers; also a Manga super villain; you can listen to Soft Cell while jogging in an attempt to reduce your cell-ulite, and if you're on them too long they can damage your brain cells. Cell.

[the-e-dealer]

No 'cell' is American. And is surely short for cell phone.

[Kailyn]

I was about to argue about Americanisation. But your point about Dragonball Z and 80's music has me. Cell.

[Annette Curtain]

Please anyone DON'T call them 'mobbies' as i've witnessed

I'd rather piano wire m'teeth to the mains.

I vote we call them 'Phoginas'

Has a certain ring to it, no ?

[the-e-dealer]

Communicators ! A La Star Trek!

[woodrot]

handy.

sehr gut.

[maxxi]

My ?15 spesh is still just a phone. All high-end expensive communications devices should - given the amount that are regularly nicked - be renamed 'mugger-magnets' or 'mug-nets'.

[numbers]

we'll stop calling them phones when we have the ability to contact people with the blink of an eye. oh wait...

[????]

Can someone give Mick a bell and tell him to stop starting boring threads, thanks.

[HonaloochieB]

???? Wrote:

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> Can someone give Mick a bell and tell him to stop

> starting boring threads, thanks.

Ouch.

But yes.

[the-e-dealer]

You are wanted on the Blower.