When us people in the UK call them Mobile phones?
2007-07-29 06:47:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
Yes we got loads of diffent networks in england.
2007-07-29 06:57:10 · update #1
in englan, we call people, mate, budd, skip, wally,fool & so on,, ok skip!!
2007-07-29 06:59:29 · update #2
Because they "SELL' us the "PHONES. (LOL)
2007-07-29 15:16:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in the U.S.A. Mobile phones and Car phones are still available, but mobile phones are the ones you carry around in a bag and cell phones are the ones you just drop into your pocket or purse. Cell phones only have 0.6 watts of power and Mobile Bag Phones have up to 2 watts of power and this is why a bigger long life battery is needed, hence the bag option. Bag phones are mostly for professionals just like car phones and made for people who spend a lot of time on the road and who need to stay in touch in remote areas of the country! A Motorola M800 bag phone is one of these portable phones and the Motorola M900 is a fixed mount car phone. Not everyone wants or needs a bag phone. They are not as easily as mobile as a cell phone and can be rather heavy to carry around after awhile.
2007-07-29 14:28:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are a special kind of mobile (movable) phone. The cellular means that they use a system of transmitters instead of one large antenna. Your call is handed off to another transmitter as you move around the area.
This allows for more calls to use the same frequency, which is what made modern mobile phones less expensive than the older systems, described above.
2007-07-29 13:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by robert2020 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just different lingo mate.
Just like, for example, the word mate. It is used frequently in the UK, but rarely in North America. We would generally say buddy or bud or pal or man or something like that. Mate is not really used here.
Cell phone is short for cellular phone. That's where it comes from.
2007-07-29 13:57:25 · answer #4 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well here and I am in California, I would call then
" Cell Phone " or sometimes when I am asking somebody I even say this " Where's your Cell?"
Mobile was the 1st word back when they were coming out in 90's
2007-07-29 18:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by ~♥ Hazey Pazey ♥~ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its an abbreviation for cellular phone obviously, and every country has it's wordings for different things, such as in UK english they say words with a different name, but the same meaning.
2007-07-29 13:55:12 · answer #6 · answered by Brian C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a matter of vocabulary
2007-07-29 13:54:39 · answer #7 · answered by 526F686974 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋