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As a German visiting the US
(social.fossware.space)
Explanation: Germans ~~used to~~ (apparently only in my bubble) call cellphones "Handy" and many people still do that. My friends from america found that quite hilarious.
Its not your bubble, when I learnt German Handy was the word for phone they taught me
I may be wrong regarding that it isn't widely used any more.
And yes, it was the first word I learned for mobile phone, too.
It is still very common
Oh whats most commonly used now?
idk what circles you guys live in but I grew up in rural south and been living a decade in Berlin. If a German talks to a German and they are not doing nerd talk and are just commoners having a chat they have been and still are using the word "handy". It still is the most commonly used word to describe a mobile phone in German language
Ok good I was afraid my vocabulary was out of date
i can confirm that in (the german-speaking parts of) switzerland "handy" is the only word i've ever heard used to describe a smartphone
That's quite funny because over here in Czechia we call them mobil
In my friend circle, it's usually just "phone".