On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:15 PM, tjpa <[email protected]> wrote: > If you look at the etymology of words you will often find that current > meaning has strayed far from the original meaning.
True. > In 50 years I would not > be surprised to find the meaning of "phone" has significantly evolved. Perhaps we will not even have "phones" anymore. So, when these portable computers, similar in size and appearance to the iPad or perhaps to tablet computers, along with netbooks and laptops start appearing on the market with phones built in, will they be called cell phones? Is it the form factor that distinguishes a cell phone from a computer? I see cell phones getting bigger and heftier and altering their physical design, their form factor changing, yet they are still called cell phones. It is getting murky. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
