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One thing I know for sure: the term smart or mobile phone is completely obsolete for most people. The default for phone is a smartphone; if you mean something else, you need to qualify. I also heard people refer to landline phones as "something you see in old timey TV shows".
And there was the brief time we said camera phone...
Honestly I never heard that one but even the term phone camera is almost obsolete.
I've heard it somewhere in movies or music. But it was uncommon to use because a lot of the time the camera part wasn't relevant so you'd just call it a phone
I remember camera phones being phones that had more focus on their camera
Nah, originally just any phone with a camera, as opposed to the models of earlier years which didn't have any.
Nokia 3310 is a legendary phone everyone knows it and it predates camera phones. Not by much, but a few years. After Nokia 3310 I had a 3330 and a 5510, both which were essentially just variations of the 3310. Then I had my first colour screen 3510i, which had a colour display (4096 colours, 96x65 pixels. That one could technically display rudimentary "photos". There weren't any ofc, but the images you could order by SMS were amazing compared to the earlier monochromatic displays. And even with those it was hot to order yourself some funny or racy logo made up of not too many pixels. Like these.
So because everything was so much about images and backgrounds and logos, once the first camera phones camera out, even when their cameras were horrible, it meant that you could just make a custom background for your phone just like that, even if if was a photo you couldn't even tell what of.
So yeah people called them camera phones. Then it took years until the photos were the sort of quality you could actually put up somewhere.
But Sony did have a specific K model as well as their W (Walkman) models. One was more focused on the camera and one on music.
Rant over
What the hell are those ‘s’es in ‘uusimmat’ and ‘suosituimmat’? Is it ‘ß’? Why is it there?
Huh. Seems like a version of cursive s, but am not sure.
It turns up in the lyrics of "When you wasn't famous" by The Streets, released in 2006. Maybe it was somewhat regional, though, him being from England and all that.
And an iPaq which ironically wasn't made by apple
Fun fact: When a new thing comes out and it changes the name of the old thing (landline, snail mail, Star Trek: The Original Series, etc.) the new name for the old thing is called a retronym.
That is a fun fact
edit: the list is long
I know people who currently have and use a landline.
They are old tho so that fits actually.. they had me add days of our lives to my server, and I felt a bit dirty.
In Finland it's even rarer, even old people gave up on landlines a long while ago, and nowadays only companies have them. Of course there's likely to be a few outliers, but the vast, vast majority.
Oh, no, these people are for sure outliers here too, I genuinely find it odd that I know someone who still uses a landline. They have cellphones but they hardly answer them.
I house-sat for them while they were out of the country and I genuinely had forgotten how much I hated a voicemail -device- that beeped at you every 2 minutes if there was a message waiting… (I was not about to answer their landline phone.. I don’t know who would call them..)
I use the number for my old landline (which has been disconnected for years now) whenever a business asks me for a number and I know they just want to spam me.
I did this at grocery stores for decades. But now they require responding to a text code.
There's a 1994 interview with Bill Gates in which he talks about how someday in the future we will have what he calls wallet PCs, and which will allow us to pay for things, be cameras, things we can use to hold our tickets to go into shows, etc. One of the best Playboy interviews.
Sci-fi had portable ‘communicator’ devices for a long time, e.g. in ‘Star Trek’ — I see smartphones as the implementation of those. It's kinda-sorta obvious that once you have a pocket computer, you want to stuff everything you can in there too.
I mean, he was the head of the company that wanted to be making them, of course he predicted they'd be everywhere and tiny.
You just reminded me my house technically has a phone number, but I haven't had a landline phone in something like 20 years. I remember WoW had just come out, was moved into a new home, and by then the home phone was never used so never got one plugged in again.