My first "cell" phone was a bag phone about the size of a briefcase, which I kept in my car for emergencies. Then came the mobile phones that were installed in automobiles, referred to as car phones. But, the cellular phones now are becoming much more than phones, and I wonder what the next name for them will be.
After doing some homework, I found out that cell phones can only look at certain web sites set up for the "mobile web" rather than ordinary html sites. Thus, the need for pop software to download mail and thus the inability to go out and look at yahoo or hotmail sites for web-based mail. I also found out that photos taken with your cell phone camera can be sent to other phones with multimedia capability or to an email address. And bluetooth enables you to connect your phone wirelessly to your pc, presumably to upload photos and email messages.
This is all still theory, since I haven't gone down to the store to activate my new albatross yet.