A phone by any other name …: I’ve been searching for the proper name for modern cellphones. "Smartphone" just doesn’t seem to cut it. "Tablet" doesn’t quite work for me. I’m looking at...

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

I’ve been searching for the proper name for modern cellphones. "Smartphone" just doesn’t seem to cut it. "Tablet" doesn’t quite work for me. I’m looking at MMD for "multimedia device". Their roots are in cellphones but making phone calls is the least of the marvels that they do. I love my MMD. 😘😘

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I think "smartphone" separates the do-everything phones from those that don't do as much. I like the English term - "mobile." It's short and to the point.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Mobile phone is good but it doesn’t do justice to all the other features. It’s kinda like referring to a Bugatti as just another car. 😉😉

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Sci-fi term: handbrain

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I call it a "cell phone".
It's not very smart as it's always waiting for me to tell it to do something and how to do it.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

gvarner wrote:

Mobile phone is good but it doesn’t do justice to all the other features. It’s kinda like referring to a Bugatti as just another car. 😉😉

A Bugatti IS just another car!!! And you won't like the name I use for those phones (crap)!

Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA

gvarner wrote:

I’ve been searching for the proper name for modern cellphones. "Smartphone" just doesn’t seem to cut it. "Tablet" doesn’t quite work for me. I’m looking at MMD for "multimedia device". Their roots are in cellphones but making phone calls is the least of the marvels that they do. I love my MMD. 😘😘

'Phablet' is sometimes used to refer to larger smartphones.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

My smart phone has a dumb operator.

Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA

John N wrote:

My smart phone has a dumb operator.

It seems that one or another vital steps are left out in the directions for each new 'app'

The grandkids all seem to know how to make the thing work. I, on the other hand, five years after retirement, still struggle with the feeling that everything was explained in a meeting to which I was not invited

Collhar Loc: New York City.

speters wrote:

A Bugatti IS just another car!!! And you won't like the name I use for those phones (crap)!

Come on...now. Open the door and step into the light.

FrankR Loc: NYC

speters wrote:

A Bugatti IS just another car!!! And you won't like the name I use for those phones (crap)!

And Michelangelo Buonarroti was just another ceiling painter.

nospambob Loc: Edmond, Oklahoma

damn thing

fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH

gvarner wrote:

I’ve been searching for the proper name for modern cellphones. "Smartphone" just doesn’t seem to cut it. "Tablet" doesn’t quite work for me. I’m looking at MMD for "multimedia device". Their roots are in cellphones but making phone calls is the least of the marvels that they do. I love my MMD. 😘😘

I read an article describing how, when Apple perfected (not, invented) the first iPhones, they wanted to call them "pocket computers" which far more aptly describes their capability. However, some company had already reserved that name and could have charged a royalty for each and every one sold with that designation. "MMD" is an accurate name but not very catchy; I'm sure the marketing department wouldn't have gone with it.

foodie65

John N wrote:

My smart phone has a dumb operator.

I can relate to that!!

Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts

I still have an old "flip" phone. I Have no plan to get one of those so called "smart phones"