According to Moco News our friends at Nokia have stopped calling phones errr…..phones. The new lexicon du jour is terminal
because, from their point of view, weíve already evolved away from the phone towards a converged device that combines things such as FM radio, digital camera, MP3 player.
I absolutely agree that we need a new word and that “phone” no longer hacks it. But Terminal? I don’t like it, I’m afraid - purely semantically really, as it’s a pretty ugly word.
Ditto Smartphone, PDA, WID (Wireless Integrated Device).
I haven’t got a better answer though. Any ideas anyone?
Or maybe “phone” will come to encapsulate all the things that it can actually do, not just the voice element.