Sure, it was something of a side-point, but the more relevant point (which I may have forgotten to make..) was that in the UK &#x27;mobile&#x27; is still common.<p>Although actually a contraction of &#x27;mobile phone&#x27;, it doesn&#x27;t have the same &#x27;problem&#x27; going forward, since we can just decide or assume that it refers to a mobile computing device.<p>Possibly though things will get even more blurred than that - everything a computing device and almost all of them mobile... Time will tell!