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If the order of events were different, what might we be calling smartphones? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had this shower thought earlier and I actually wanted to post it in that community. The name I came up with was SmartWalkman, but later I realized that Walkman is Sony specific, so I doubt other companies would’ve gone for that name, but I didn’t want to let this shower thought slip so here I am now asking you guys.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Touchphone
Voicetransmitter
Walky-Talky
Mini-PC

The alternatives are endless

Fun fact: In Germany, mobile phones are called "Handy" instead of "mobile phone"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And phone plans are flats. Iirc that is also unique to German. It's always interesting when languages steal from other languages and butcher the words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

And phone plans are flats.

You must mean Flatrate? A term for a flat/fixed price with unrestricted volume (the default for home internet; mobile phone plans have variance).

I'm not aware of anything being called "flats" in German. Could be an abbreviation in circles though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, flat is colloquial speech for Phone Flatrate. Flats being the plural.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

And if I remember correctly that only was the name of one company's model of mobile phones but it stuck like e.g. Tempo for tissues in general.