Lovable Sidekick to [email protected]English • 6 months agoCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".message-square67fedilinkarrow-up1272
arrow-up1272message-squareCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".Lovable Sidekick to [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square67fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoIronically the Brits got this right with “mobiles”. What’s the key characteristic of a cellphone? That it is portable and mobile.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•6 months agoIs the term “Pocket PC” still trademarked? Let’s start calling them that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-26 months agoMaybe since you can do your entire Job on it we can call it a hand Job Or perhaps since we have it in our face all day we can call it a facial. Or since we watch so much porn on it we can call it a video player.
minus-squareUndeariuslinkfedilinkEnglish36•6 months agoPortable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•6 months ago🎵Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…🎵
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•6 months agoTo pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.
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Ironically the Brits got this right with “mobiles”. What’s the key characteristic of a cellphone? That it is portable and mobile.
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Not if c/fuckcars gets their way.
Is the term “Pocket PC” still trademarked? Let’s start calling them that.
Maybe since you can do your entire Job on it we can call it a hand Job
Or perhaps since we have it in our face all day we can call it a facial.
Or since we watch so much porn on it we can call it a video player.
Germans call it a handy.
Portable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.
This guy phones.
We could make that an acronym!
PSPC w/ TRC lol
🎵Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…🎵
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To pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.
Didn’t we had Personal Digital Assistant before?
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