Hi Bob, the Canadian here. Welcome to this English lesson on smartphones.
This little device has become very, very useful to people around the world. In fact, almost 80% of the people that watch my YouTube videos watch them on some sort
of smartphone, and many of you have asked me to do an English lesson about smartphones and all of the words and phrases that we use in the English language when we talk about
smartphones so that's what I'm going to do today. So the first thing we should talk about is, what do we call this thing?
Actually, there's a lot of names for it. We say mobile phone or mobile phone, cell phone, smartphone but it's more and more common
in English right now to just call it a phone. Most of us don't have phones in our home anymore.
We simply have a smartphone. So for Jen and I, we just call this a phone, you know, where is my phone?
Have you seen my phone? So that's, that's what we call it now.
In order to use a phone, you need to have a data plan or you need to have a service plan, and you get that plan from a service provider.
We would call them a cell phone provider still using the old term cell phone. So I pay money every month to a cell phone provider so that I can use my phone.
