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Humble   Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:13 am GMT

Hi, Please tell me what you usually call these gadgets – cell-phones, mobiles, phones or … ? Thanks.

Guest   Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:27 am GMT

cell phones

Lazar   Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:35 pm GMT

I think it's mainly called a cell phone in the US and a mobile in Britain.

Guest   Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:09 am GMT

All of them are used. It seems like a person to person dependency. So learn them all and observe what people use.

Humble   Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:16 am GMT

(Observe ... :))) Nobody speaking English around.) Thanks.

Guest   Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:08 am GMT

I call it a 'mobile', my daughter calls it a 'cell phone', my wife calls it a 'telly', my second wife calls it a 'mobile phone', my lover calls it a 'telephone'. You see , it depends from person to person.

Guest   Tue Apr 22, 2008 10:45 am GMT

I call it a "thingie".

guest   Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:08 pm GMT

Es ist ein "Handy" auf Deutsch It's called a "Handy" in German

Guest   Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:50 pm GMT

This is the English forum. Don't post in or about German here.

Skippy   Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:42 am GMT

In the US we call them cell phones, sometimes 'cell' for short.

Guest   Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:55 am GMT

I call it a electromagnetic radiation transmitter/reciever

Humble   Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:53 am GMT

Thanks, folks.

nmaj   Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:29 am GMT

I like that electromagnetic radiation transmitter/receiver... Sounds so "Physics" though we call it cellphone here... Love that!

TomJimJack   Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:15 pm GMT

In China, they call it a "hand phone" and in many cases do not understand if you say a "cell"