Do you say cell or mobile phone?

I'm from the Netherlands and these are the common names we use along with their translation.

Mobiele Telefoon ( Mobile Phone)
Mobieltje ( Lit. Little mobile)
GSM ( Global System for Mobile Communications)

As such I always use Mobile Phone when talking about a portable phone, because it has close resemblance to Mobiele telefoon.

I think the difference originates from the fact that each country/state/province or even city or village always develop its own language or variation on a language. Companies don't have necessarily anything to do with it, although I am not sure.

I suppose it depends on where I am at and who I am talking to. When I'm at home, it's my cell. When I'm telling someone to call me, it's call my cell....not usually followed by phone, just cell. Now, when I'm at work, it's a different story. I work for a cell phone company so I typically refer to cell phones as mobile phones when I'm talking to my customers. It really just varies. I'm from the United States, by the way.

I say cell phone, laptop and drive stick....
My family in Europe use mobile phone, notebook and pen drive....
Sometimes we don't understand each other....

Hello mipen, in England they are known as mobile phones and in America as cells, so when you have confusion abroad it is really over whether they use standard English or American English. For the people who commented below a 'cell' is actually a place within a police station where they lock up the bad guys, or an imnates room in a prison. I believe that here in Greece we are the only country which refers to a mobile phone as a 'kinito'.

I call them cell phones. However I think mobile phones as cell phones with those mini keyboards and that have extensive data connection and are used by business people, while cell phones just have texting, take photos, and are used by ordinary people like you and I. The same with laptop and notebook. I think of laptop that are used in place of a desk top by ordinary people, you and I, whereas I think of notebook computers as laptop computers that are used by business people and are carried around in their suitcase, like what the real estate lady uses.
I live in Canada, by the way. I think mobile phone sounds more snobbish then cell phone.

I’m not very sure yet about cellphone. I just know cellphone means cellular phone. Might be the abbr word of “cell” is from the word “cellular”. Yeah, cell phone is made up of a cellular structure so it’s given the name cellular phone. Yeah to make simple we then call it cell phone.

In my place most of the people call this device cellphone instead of mobile phone. I think since they are the same device but with different name, so it’s not important what we call them as long as we know what they are though they are in different name.

Yeah, it's just similar to that of the portable computer, laptop or notebook. The more smaller size one which has a screen less than 10 inches is called netbook. It's purposely designed for the convenience as well as easy to carry along for surfing net

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