Is a phone really a phone anymore?

TheMilkyPirate

Obviously my phone is still a phone as in it still makes and recieves calls and likewise with texts, But they have become so much more than that that i think soon they won't be branded as phones anymore maybe Personal media device or some such. I mean not only is your "phone" your phone theses days it is also your your mp3 player your internet your games your entertainment your calendar your social networks your life really.

So when do you think they will stop being branded as phones and be branded as something other than that?

god's toy

I class them now as a 'multimedia device with phone function' the phone part maybe just another app one day.

Mimikyu

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Nyum Nyum

It's definitely not a "handset" as some people call it :mad:






(Sorry, pet peeve of mine )

srsly78

Mobile phone companies refer to devices as terminals.

ShadowHearth

Hmmm I use all my credits in data. I even got a phone call from O2 with offer to put me Om bill pay with data plan as I use out all my credits on data, not calls and it will be cheaper...

It's not a phone anymore. It's my source of information, media storage, contact book, clock, camera, gaming device, and lastly - a phone.

It was cool to hear on radio as they are started trial for debit/credit cards on android platform to pay for goods in shops.

I still remember an add from nokia: soon you will be able to watch your favourite movies on your mobile phone... I was like: yeah right... Few months later I was watching some movie and playing doom on my nokia 3650...

Almaviva

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Was upgrading not that many years ago and and the sales girl was telling me that phones with colour screens would be standard shortly and you wouldnt even get a monochrome one. Remember thinking: what sales spiel nonsense. Get real girl - colour screen on a phone? That'll be the day. Whats the point?
Me well and truly wrong.

PogMoThoin

Wait til people start using Layar and other geographic stuff to their full potential, you'll go to the bus stop and be able to identify the person there, see the public version of their facebook page and read their tweets by pointing your phone at them. Check your phone to see how far away the bus is, pay for it with your phone. Walk down Grafton st and see the restaurant menu or shop website when you point them. This tech is already available but in its infancy. The next level after that is bluetooth sunglasses, where you keep the phone in your pocket and it sends the images by bluetooth to be displayed on the inside of the glasses, there already is prototypes.

jimmycrackcorm

I'm a man so I don't need to call or text but I do need a portable internet porn device.

shannon_tek

There is no such thing as a cellular telephonic moble phone terminal handset anymore. thanks to apple we now all carry mini laptops around with us. or now known as Tablets. which i nearly killed my nan with when i asked her would she like to buy a tablet will only cost €600. asking me what kinda tablet is that.