Why are they called smart phones? They're not smart. Touch

>>59988674
It's a marketing name

marketing

>>59988674
Marketing. Just like the "cloud".
Dumb names for normies

Most smartphone models didn't even have touch screens at one point in time. Nowadays almost all do, but it wasn't ever their defining characteristic. There are touch screen "dumbphones" as well.

Nokia tried to call their not-business-oriented smartphones "multimedia computers" at one point but yea that was an awkward name and made genuinely no sense, no wonder everyone still called em smartphones.

also idk smartphone always made sense to me. It does more stuff, you can install applications on it, thus it is "smarter" than a basic phone.

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Maybe the distinction really doesn't make as much sense if you're aware of only the android/ios -dominated world.

There was a time when smartphones and "basic" phones often looked rather similar (smart ones were usually bigger, though). The difference was largely in their innards and their software.

Basic phones could hardly handle any "PC-like" functionality, they'd at best run J2ME apps, but something like pic related was running a much more advanced OS, you could install proper applications, modify it a bit more, it actually allowed you to do online stuff or a lot more multimedia stuff. Yet it doesn't look that different from something like a Motorola flip dumbphone.

Surely it made sense to divide these devices into more advanced, "smart"phones and the ones that really were mostly just phones (with most extra functionality being extremely limited)