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A comment on Ask HN: What technology are you sad to see going extinct in the wild?.

Re:Ask HN: What technology are you sad to see going extinct ... by bbcbasic on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @06:34PM (#10126433)
Mobile phones that still work when you drop them.

P.S. Do American people call them cell phones or mobile phones now? A few years ago mobile seemed more a British thing to say, but with "mobile" entering the language of the web maybe it is different now.

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Re:Ask HN: What technology are you sad to see going extinct ... by HelloHN on Wednesday August 26, 2015 @10:13PM (#10127150)
In the old days we use to just call them cell phones. These days I just call it "my iPhone" or when I am referencing other people's phone, I just say "phone". If I am developing and talking about it in development context, then and only then do I reference mobile of any kind.
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