• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Even on touch phones it’s still called dialing though…

    Just like it was for the button phones. It’s the same as typing

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      4 months ago

      But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
      The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.