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My Palm calls them mobile, i call them cell, a UK friend called it a moby...
what else? or is that it?
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Wireless.Also now disposables.
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The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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I use both mobile and cell more or less equally, which seems appropriate for one loathe to take sides on anything. 
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Twenty years ago, I had a cordless phone. It was mobile for perhaps a quarter of a mile.
The radio amateurs of the day had a lot of fun listening in on local females discussing their
sex lives, unaware that their messages were being overheard.
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a few years ago, i worked at a company that had a seimans phone system that was customized to make it unique (at the time) all the "desk" phones automatically "rolled over" to a hand held portable devise (smaller than a cordless, but bigger than a cell phone) In order to 'answer' a call at your desk, you had to reroute the call back to your desk.
they didn't have a huge range horizontally, they just worked in the office. and just barely in the mens rooms or ladies rooms just out side the office..
but they did work vertically.. so if you went outside to have a cigarette, and remained close to the building (and on the side our offices were, the phone worked..(4 floors away, and they also worked in the NYSC (sport club/gym) 2 floors below us...
so some employees took to taking extended lunch hours, and working out in the gym.. but they could still answer there phone... if a boss was looking for you, and could find you in the office, you could lie and say, oh, i am in the ladies room..
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what else?undesirable - in a pub (they're banned in most of my locals, thank God)
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Undesirable in a pub? How would you like to ride with broken field runner on a
Los Angeles Freeway, who was dialling calls while changing lanes?
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The battery-charged cordless for the house I've always called a remote phone. And, yes, there have been times when I picked up the TV remote to dial a call...haven't we all? (and, no, it's not a 'guy thing'!  ) And, yes, I'll admit that maybe ONCE [ahem], I've picked up the remote phone to change the channel
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The battery-charged cordless for the house I've always called a remote phoneInteresting one, Juan.. I'd never specify, maybe because we're almost always using the cordless phones (one generally upstairs and one downstairs) and hardly ever using the fixed ones. You get used to the freedom. I'd specify picking up the "fixed phone" sometimes, but not the cordless. As is now obvious, though, if I did specify I'd say "cordless". Oh, and you'd hope a cordless phone wasn't "remote" when somebody called.  Confusion between phones and remote controls.. hmmm, surprisingly rare actually. Maybe because the cordless phones we have are noticeably more narrow (side to side) and also more thick than our remote controls. They also have an LCD display, so they're more like mobies really. They must be highly distinctive, as I'd definitely get them confused if there were the slightest opportunity to do so. 
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