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On 3/5/2025 1:03 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> Newyana2 wrote:

> calling them "computer cellphones" just sounds odd.
> 

    Not as silly as "smartphone". :)
It's basically a computer that can make phone calls.
Mainly they're used for apps and online operations. Mine
has Firefox installed.

> Before smartphones, there were e.g. the Nokia 9000 series 
> "communicators" which had email and web-browsing in mid '90s.
> 

   I'm sure there were all sorts of niche items. But that's not
the context here. The point was that only in recent years
have most people been using texting and apps on computer
phones, to such an extent that everyone is assumed to
have one handy at all times. That's what we've been talking
about -- how hard it is to not use a cellphone. Some Brits and
Spanish people are claiming they can't live at all in the modern
worls without a cellphone. I don't believe that's true, but I
do know that more and more things require a cellphone.