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Dual SIM phones was:Worker killed by Southern train was covering for brother
In message , at 23:36:50 on Wed, 24 Jul
2019, bob remarked: Recliner wrote: Clank wrote: Basil Jet Wrote in message: Thanks for that, but it doesn't change the fact that earphones with a microphone in the cable *are* a mobile phone accessory. I use mine with my laptop for Skype/Teams calls and the like as often as I use them with my phone. (Actually, if it's the microphone that is suddenly important, far more - I make voice calls on my phone once in a blue moon.) Yes, it's probably time to resurrect the old, prematurely-coined, PDA term for what we still call phones. The modern smart phone rolls the functions of PDA, mobile phone and personal music player together into a single device, onto which is added internet data connectivity. If you go back and look at the presentation where Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone he makes a big play on this bringing together of multiple previous category of devices into a single thing. If anything, the iPhone is an iPod-Touch with a phone added. That the term phone has been the one that won out of the various elements that went into what a modern phone does is something of an accident of history. See also the way my Cybershot (being discussed in another subthread) is something I've always described as a camera with a phone on the back, rather than the other way round. -- Roland Perry |
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