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[Kar98]

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

Everyone calls their mobile phones "cell" phones. There have not been cell phones for at least 10 years. A cellular phone was old TDM tech whereas once the phones went digital and pretty much moved into what has been out there since actually what GSM started to do with their evolution around 2000 is a mobile telephony network.

They're called cell phones because the base stations form cells of phone coverage. The actual technology, be that AMPS, TDMA, CDMA, GSM, UMTS etc has nothing to do with that.

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by Kar98

They're called cell phones because the base stations form cells of phone coverage. The actual technology, be that AMPS, TDMA, CDMA, GSM, UMTS etc has nothing to do with that.

Ok, so in that case I pose this: the term "cellular phone" is a misnomer because the phone is not cellular, the network is.

[Kar98]

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

Ok, so in that case I pose this: the term "cellular phone" is a misnomer because the phone is not cellular, the network is.

It's just a term (I still think you're thinking of PCS), like dialing a number. When's the last time you actually dialed a number, on a dial? A round thing with numerical markings around the edge, like a sundial... where the word comes from.

[chriswf]

Originally Posted by Kar98

It's just a term (I still think you're thinking of PCS), like dialing a number. When's the last time you actually dialed a number, on a dial? A round thing with numerical markings around the edge, like a sundial... where the word comes from.

Lol oh geez.

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[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Kar98

It's just a term (I still think you're thinking of PCS), like dialing a number. When's the last time you actually dialed a number, on a dial? A round thing with numerical markings around the edge, like a sundial... where the word comes from.

LOL. So many examples. Trying to explain what an 8-track tape is to a late millenial in the U.S......or (in most cases) a gas pump with numbers that rotate on a wheel. My aunt or my mother telling me what it was like to grow up when CBS, etc. were just radio networks....or what commercial air travel was like before jets became part of that landscape.

[Kar98]

Sheeeeet, when I was a kid, our TV had a large twist knob and you used it to switch between the two West German stations, or the two East German ones. But you also had to pull the antenna plug from UHF jack and plug it into the VHF jack.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Kar98

Sheeeeet, when I was a kid, our TV had a large twist knob and you used it to switch between the two West German stations, or the two East German ones. But you also had to pull the antenna plug from UHF jack and plug it into the VHF jack.

LOL. I remember switching the prongs between the two screws for UHF and the two screws for VHF (when I was in elementary school...before cable was available in our area). Our TVs had the twist knobs as well. My grandparents purchased one of the first models ever made that didn't have knobs.

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by Kar98

It's just a term (I still think you're thinking of PCS), like dialing a number. When's the last time you actually dialed a number, on a dial? A round thing with numerical markings around the edge, like a sundial... where the word comes from.

Actually did in a couple months ago while I was in Arizona.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by fnkngrv

Actually did in a couple months ago while I was in Arizona.

Wow. I haven't seen one of those in ages. I did use a gas pump in 2007 that had those rolling wheel numbers. It was located on the 'main drag' in Tupelo, Mississippi.