My grandmother said the same when I showed her a Motorola Droid in 2009. She said “that’s a pocket computer”.
In German, a phone is called a “Handy”
In America, a handjob is called a “Handy”
In Germany, they employ the whole person, not just the hand!
My favorite thing about smartphones is that the “call” icon is an old-school telephone handset. I’ll bet younger people have never thought about what that thing is even supposed to be. My second-favorite is the gear icon for “settings” - like, what the fuck does a gear ring have to do with a list of options you can select? That isn’t even remotely close to what gears are used for in real-world mechanical devices.
Even my two year old can recognize a telephone handset, pick it up and hold it to her ear while saying “Hewwo?”
What do you call your phone? By its brand?
I call mine Tim
“Pocket-Sized Portable Computer with Telecommunicative Radio Capability” is quite a long name, people would just get tired of saying that and call it by a simpler name.
Oh wait.
PSPC w/ TRC lol
