On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:53 AM, t.piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: > That's right. Most of us (except for the Rev.) are carrying around a > completely different device than the cell phones of old. The smart phone you > just described gets us halfway there. Today's app phones (iPhone and copies) > change the way we interact with our environment. That is a revolutionary > change.
It is certainly a change, though I view it as being more evolutionary than revolutionary. Should we not alter the nomenclature by which we refer to these, as you put it, "app phones?" If most folks actually use these devices less as one would use a traditional telephone, and more as one uses a full blown computer, why call them phones? Were laptop computers to be made available that had cell service capability, and if folks carried those around using them both as phones and as computers, would we call them phones? How about an iPad-like device with a phone built in? Would that be called a phone? Just a simple question. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
