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Why do old people call phones 'Cell phones'?

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(The U.S. is only the seventh nation to reach the data-voice tipping point — it happened in countries like Japan as early as 2011.) A recent survey of 7,000 U.S. read more

There are lots of people that call these new-fangled phones you can put in your pocket “cell” phones, not just old people (unless you consider people in their 20’s old). read more

The first mobile phone call was placed in 1946 over Bell System's Mobile telephone service, a closed radiotelephone system. And the first commercial mobile phones were installed cars in the 1970s. Eventually, the two names, mobile phone and cellular phone, became synonymous, especially here in the US. But some people disagree with that usage. read more

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