On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Niels Heyvaert
<[email protected]>wrote:

>
> >
> >> What fields do you think we should provide by default?
> >
> >
> >
> > Plz not Cellphone, but Cell phone. Also I think it is good to have Work
> >
> > address and Home address. Also Company and Position.
> >
> > BTW, look at vcard 3.0.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > WBR, Vladimir Berezenko
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > I really hate "Cell phone", but if it
> >
> > --
> > Tom.
> >
> >
> > Accidentally sent, sorry. I really hate "Cell phone", but if it's the
> industry standard, we should probably consider that.
>
>
> Cell phone is far from a standard. It actually is outdated US-only slang
> which unfortunetaly got spread to some other countries (India, South Africa,
> Canada, Philippines, New Zealand and Italy). The word mainly refers to the
> technology (cellular network) and not the device itself. We don't talk about
> our PSTN or ISDN phone either when referring to the home phone or office
> phone, do we? It is more or less the same principle.
>
> The international standard is Mobile phone or just Mobile when already used
> in context of telephony.
>
> Niels.
>
> I agree, I also hate "Cell phone" (with a space, while I don't really like,
but also don't care about using "Cellphone"). But using "Mobile phone" looks
best, thanks for the tip.
-- 
Tom.
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