If the order of events were different, what might we be calling smartphones?

I had this shower thought earlier and I actually wanted to post it in that community. The name I came up with was SmartWalkman, but later I realized that Walkman is Sony specific, so I doubt other companies would’ve gone for that name, but I didn’t want to let this shower thought slip so here I am now asking you guys.

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit ,

Sinclair ZX Hand-Computer.

Nemo ,

pokécon - pocket computer

wesker ,
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Bricks.

gravitywell ,

PDA was probably the most common during the 90s and I think until iPhones and android, black berry phones were considered PDAs.

A lot of stuff in the 80s/90s used the suffix "dex" (after rolodex) so I could also picture something like "mobidex" or "pocket dex". Or there was netbooks so we might just call them netdex...

jarredpickles87 ,
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Duuuude, mobidex has such a cool sound to it. Real star trek vibes. I wish.

Revan343 ,

"pocket dex"

Nintendo would sue so quickly

gravitywell ,

Depends on the timing but Pokedex is clearly itself derivative of rolodex so im not sure that would actually work in Nintendo's favor

ilinamorato ,

It's a Pokemon Index.

Revan343 ,

Pocket monster index

jlow ,
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Handy (as we do in Germany).

neidu2 ,

Every time I've gotten a handy, it has been by some dude in a store. That's why I keep coming back once every year or two; he knows how to provide a good handy.

mipadaitu ,

PDA - Personal Digital Assistant.

That's what they were called in the before times (Palm Pilot) before they got merged with the cell phone. Lots of old timers called a smartphone a PDA until they got really popular.

Mr_Blott ,

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Fuck you that's mine

Mojo ,
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This is the correct answer

VonReposti ,

Computer phone. I mean, it is a combination of a computer and a mobile phone so why not?

FuckyWucky ,
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PDA

criitz ,

I like this one. Smartphones are what PDAs were supposed to be.

oxjox ,
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For a brief period of time, they (mostly journalists) tried calling them App Phones to differentiate from other phones with touch screens. There was also the rumor leading up to the iPhone that it would be called the iWalk.

squirrel ,

PPC: Personal Pocket Computer

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