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If you were to rename the smartphone, what would you call it?

I use a smartphone as a music player, a camera, a note taker, a torchlight, an encyclopedia, a clock, a calculator, a dictionary, and a plethora of other functions. But not a phone.

I would name it PVMT (portable virtual multi-tool).
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>>109237777
cuckputer
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>>109237777
PC (Pocket Computer)
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It's just a PDA
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Retardphone
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>>109237777
The idiot bar.
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>>109237777
phartsmone
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>>109237777
Mobile phone. Simple as.
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>>109237777
Thin-Track
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>>109237827
>phone
You don't get the point of the exercise. Smartphones have a singular emphasis on the "phone" part. But it can be used as much more than a phone. For some, the phone aspect is not even used. It's like a pocket laptop.
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MultiTab
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>>109237777
jewbrick
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>>109237777
fondleslab
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thinkbrick
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I wouldn't name it. I'd ask Philip K. Dick to name it... and that's what nobody did.
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>>109237777
The Internet and Communication Universal Machine

iCum
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Blackberry
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iPod Touch --> iPod --> SmartPod (generic term)
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Smartphone is fine.
Smartphone comes from telephone, tele- meaning "far away" (like telekenesis and telescope) and "phone" meaning mouth sounds (like phonology)
But if you are willing to accept a metaphorical definition of "phone" you could interpret it as a device that talks to other devices. Which is pretty accurate.
"Smart" because it's a computer. Smart phone = computer that talks to other devices.
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Comms Device
CD
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>>109237777
retardrectangle
earcuck (because it sits on your ear and cucks it)
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>>109237808
I think I would kill myself if I had to use excel on that thing
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지능적인HANDY
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Brain-Fart phone
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Does it make calls? Phone.
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>>109238356
your PC can make calls thoughever
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>>109237777
Goyslab
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>>109238190
"Smart" is outdated, since "regular phones are nolonger in use. Today's smartphone is the standard phone. Also, it places a restriction on further advancements. When smartphones develop further way beyond their present state, they still will be considered simply smartphones.
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>>109238793
>regular phones are nolonger in use
>this nigger doesn't have a job and has never entered a business
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>>109237777
Garglo, a stupid name for a stupid device for stupid people.
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black mirror
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You're all just insulting smartphones without engaging with the prompt. "Smartphone" sucks because it's an HRE term, it's not smart and it's not a phone. It's a handheld personal computing, media and communications device. Its information processing capabilities have a universal quality, and it exists in the form of a tool, like a paleolithic handaxe. It would be better if the name had a more direct line to its identity.

>"radio" works much better than "phone" as an older device name repurposed for a more advanced one, because it still transmits radio waves
>tablet, or microtablet/"my micro" to distinguish from larger devices; analogy to bronze age media
>slate, tabula (rasa)
>just device
>"my data" short for "datatool"
>multi or poly, short for various official names
>link, skylink, node, comm
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>>109238510
Based
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>>109237777
>If you were to rename the smartphone, what would you call it?
palm device
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Zoomer-rectangle
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>>109237808
I miss my zaurus. I would go wardriving with it.
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Brainrot Interface Terminal - Computerised Handheld
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>>109237777
Demonslab
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>>109238197

its hopeless run numbers on device show pic on device to pickup goods
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PDA is good. We should bring back that name.
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Spyphone fits better.
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>>109237777
Multiphone. Like multitool.
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>>109237956
finally
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>>109237777
It's just a Zune that makes phonecalls, I would cash it a Zunephone
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>>109237777
We already had PDAs, the only reason they changed the name was for marketing since PDAs had been around long enough to feel dated and old.
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>>109237808
tpbp
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>>109237777
goyphone
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>>109237854
>You don't get the point of the exercise
it's only an exercise if you're autistic
it's a phone
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>>109243081
>it's what I say!
>t. trailer kid
Nah.
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>>109237777
>TeleSlave
>SlaveMonitor
>SlaveTracker
>SlaveTracer
>PocketTrace/Tracker
>PocketMonitor
>MK Ultra PC
>MK Ultra PDA
>DARPA Box
>Big Brother
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>iSpy
>Horus <O>
>Wiretap
>Teletap
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palm dumb terminal
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>>109237777
It was always called a PDA (personal digital assistant). "Smart Phones" are just a development of PDAs, but to sell them to normies you need to make it simple and relatable, the same reason the first consumer GUI software was skeuomorph.
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>>109237777
Sheep Trainer
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>>109237777
Cattle Tag
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>>109243837
weak
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>>109237854
The phone is still the critical part, even if I don't use it for calls much.
>internet communications device
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>>109237777
The iPhone
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Pocketphone



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