Mobile Or Cell

[bibblebub]

Here in the UK we call them mobile phones, in the US they are cell phones.

But what about the rest of the world? Do they side with mobile or prefer the term cell, or something completely different (after translation into English)?

[Fitzer]

Germans call them a 'Handy', pretty sure that's the actual term as opposed to the translation from the German

[Sparkles62]

In Wales we call them ffon symudol , just basic tranlation from mobile phone. X

[LazyGun]

I remember a QI/Steven Fry routine, where he was theatrically patting himself down, exclaiming in a campy german accent "Vo is mein handy" :)

Never seen a phone with legs or wheels, so mobile does not really seem apt; Hsndy is a fairly accurate representation but sounds trivial - the american cellphone sounds snappiest, to me, as well as being technically accurate...

[coccinelle]

I've found over the past few years the more foreigners I meet speaking English (and this at a high level) they speak American English. I've sometimes had to say the word in american for them to understand.

[bibblebub]

I haven't personally seen a phone in a prison cell so mobile, that one uses when out and about as opposed to being at home, seems preferable to me.

[vulcan42]

Used to work with a man who named his phone after his wife. When asked why he said Because both are always in his pocket.