User talk:Guy Harris/Archives/2017/09

Nomination for deletion of Template:Latest preview software release/iOS 10

Template:Latest preview software release/iOS 10 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Darius robin (talk) 04:33, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Recent cellular network edit

Hi, this is Shickorbob. I see you've recently reverted my edit. Smartphones are in fact not portable telephones, as they are used exclusively for calling (with the exception of feature phones). Shickorbob (talk) 03:35, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

@Shickorbob: Please find a reliable source to support your notion that a "phone" is a device used exclusively for calling (which will be difficult, given that, as you yourself note, feature phones aren't used exclusively for calling, either. Guy Harris (talk) 03:56, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

@Guy Harris: Smartphones do not have a primary function. Mobile phones do. Smartphones are highly advanced computers, and to label them as a device that is 'primarily used for calling among other additional features', nowadays, is just technically incorrect and absurd. It may have once been a term used to refer to what you describe, but should be no longer. The iPhone X, for example, has some of the most advanced technology in a computing device so far. Shickorbob (talk) 23:47, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

@Shickorbob: Computers do not have a primary function; many of them are used for ordering stuff from Amazon and watching cat videos, rather than any "computing" in the conventional sense. So sometimes you just have to live with terms that no longer fully apply...

...such as "smartphone". It includes "phone", so it's a "phone", even though it's not used exclusively for calling, and that's not necessarily its primary function.

So you still haven't provided a reliable source, just a personal opinion. Guy Harris (talk) 00:22, 25 September 2017 (UTC)