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Why are our mini-computers called smartphones?
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RE: Why are our mini-computers called smartphones?
(August 8, 2018 at 9:28 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(August 8, 2018 at 9:20 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Because the ability to call is probably the only function that, if it were missing, would cause you not to carry that device around any more.

A PDA was a not-phone. Nobody uses them any more.

Yeh.

Nobody says, "Wow, PDAs can make calls now."  They say, "Wow, my phone does everything those things did, so I will just carry my phone from now on."
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RE: Why are our mini-computers called smartphones? - by bennyboy - August 8, 2018 at 10:08 pm

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