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by ForHackernews 2947 days ago
Again, only in America. They're "mobiles" many places.
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When I was in Korea, the term "handset" seemed ubiquitous among the English-speaking people I interacted with. This is even stranger because, as I understand it, the Korean term is a transliteration of the English "smartphone", so I don't know where people were getting "handset" from.
... which is short for mobile phone.