A Cell Phone by Any Other Name...
Kirt's Cogitations™ #124

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A Cell Phone by Any Other Name...

Cell phone or mobile phone - which is it? According to some online media databases, if you live in North America, you are six times as likely to prefer "cell phone" (or cellphone) over "mobile phone." Everywhere else in the world, you are seven times more likely to say "mobile phone." Regardless of what you call it, there has been a notable increase in the amount of stage-phoning going on out there. Stage-phoning is an attempt to impress nearby people by talking in a theatrical and animated manner - usually at an elevated loudness. Some people have even been observed holding staged one-way conversations with their phones turned entirely off. Talk about vanity!

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RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...