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Mobile Phones (naming)
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First up… The name is wrong. I hear people rant I don’t want a camera on my phone. That’s reasonable. I don’t want my TV to make coffee. You say phone and people think thingy with numbers, a little speaker on one end and a little microphone on the other. It should also go ring ring when someone is calling your number (unless you are in the US, in which case is should just go riiiiing, but enough conversation on the transatlantic differences in ring style already). Only an idiot would want a camera on said device. A camera on the other hand very much needs the ability to take photos.
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Mobile Phones (naming)
http://www.hot-iphones.com/motorolla/mobile-phones-naming/Maximus wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt So the ‘talking on phone’ bit is really just one small part of it all. But somehow the name has stuck. It’s not so much a mobile phone as a mobile thingy gadget. Some would say thingy gadget doesn’t sound so good as a name. … Read the rest of this great post here
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