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My favorite thing about smartphones is that the "call" icon is an old-school telephone handset. I'll bet younger people have never thought about what that thing is even supposed to be. My second-favorite is the gear icon for "settings" - like, what the fuck does a gear ring have to do with a list of options you can select? That isn't even remotely close to what gears are used for in real-world mechanical devices.
Even my two year old can recognize a telephone handset, pick it up and hold it to her ear while saying "Hewwo?"