“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.
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.
“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.
Portable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.
This guy phones.
We could make that an acronym!
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.
Ironically the Brits got this right with “mobiles”. What’s the key characteristic of a cellphone? That it is portable and mobile.
but the key characteristic of a car is also the mobility.
🤔
Not if c/fuckcars gets their way.
PSPC w/ TRC lol
🎵Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me…🎵
Is the term “Pocket PC” still trademarked? Let’s start calling them that.
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?
Hand Terminals imply you no longer have local storage, which wouldn’t describe smartphones today.
Also, I hate the idea of a “Hand Terminal” where everything is on the cloud. I mean…
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Eros Incident, comms all dead. Screen doesnt even turn on.
With actual phones, they could’ve used something like Briar!
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