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hammi_poop
Posts: 60
Phone Model:
nokia 3230
Service Provider:
o2 |
 
Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:22 am |
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i bet u will all laff at me for askin this but hey i need 2 know....in the uk we call it a mobile fone but places like america call them sell phones..i can understand 'mobile phone' because u can take it anywhere(mobile) but y cell lol???
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hammi_poop
Posts: 60
Phone Model:
nokia 3230
Service Provider:
o2 |
Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:23 am |
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sorry i dint mean sell i meant cell
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Praneet
Posts: 232
Phone Model:
3650 (N3530 Backup)
Service Provider:
Orange |
Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:37 am |
cell is the abbrevation for cellular phone.cellular means something single cuz in a cell u dant have a wire , a base or anythin like dat....see as simple as dat   
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hammi_poop
Posts: 60
Phone Model:
nokia 3230
Service Provider:
o2 |
Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:45 am |
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i c now silly me i new it wud b sumthing simple...thanx
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Bjoern
Posts: 3615
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:08 am |
In Germany it's called "Handy" but afaik it has nothing to do with the english word "handy"...
Afaik nobody knows how this has come up...
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Praneet
Posts: 232
Phone Model:
3650 (N3530 Backup)
Service Provider:
Orange |
Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:15 am |
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actually it can be related to the english word handy.now a days fones are really handy
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Bjoern
Posts: 3615
Phone Model:
Nokia E61
Service Provider:
o2 Germany |
Wed Jun 16, 2004 11:53 am |
Could be, but it seems to lost the english meaning very fast...
The word "Handy" was used middle 80's the first for walkie-talkies, in the UK in the 70's and in the 40's "Handie-Talkie" was used in the USA.
But germans are dump... they even write signs for international events with "No handies please" - no native speaker does understand it 
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glacialdrift
Posts: 4 |
Sat Jul 03, 2004 3:16 pm |
| hammi_poop wrote: | | i bet u will all laff at me for askin this but hey i need 2 know....in the uk we call it a mobile fone but places like america call them sell phones..i can understand 'mobile phone' because u can take it anywhere(mobile) but y cell lol??? |
From google:
The noun "cellphone" has 1 sense in WordNet.
1. cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone -- (a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver)
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gforce
Posts: 858
Phone Model:
N6600. Looking around for a cheap 6630.
Service Provider:
Orange |
Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:23 pm |
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I prefer the word 'handphone' or even 'fone'.
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cmdtcouchetot
Posts: 13
Phone Model:
Samsung V200 |
Tue Jul 06, 2004 5:25 pm |
| hammi_poop wrote: | | i bet u will all laff at me for askin this but hey i need 2 know....in the uk we call it a mobile fone but places like america call them sell phones..i can understand 'mobile phone' because u can take it anywhere(mobile) but y cell lol??? |
Cell from cellular because the network is divided in cells around each antenna. That how you can be traced wherever you are if your phone is on 
In Tahiti it's called Vini, in New Caledonia it's called Mobilis, in France Portable or GSM...
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