Daniel Pocock:
Ok, so "smart" is convenient marketing but if we want to refer to such a phone, as distinct from a legacy mobile, just using the word "mobile" may not be sufficient
Is there any other terms that could be used?
I personally just say "telephone" or "phone", and people just understand what I mean. I always felt uneasy about calling them "smart", but I don't think inventing a different word is really good policy. We did it several time, and none of our special, politically-meaningful name hit the masses.
Using strange words makes the talk weaker. Using "phone" sounds perfectly normal. Sometimes saying something like "the typical modern telephone" helps making the context clear, but at least where I live everybody has a clear idea of what is the "phone" in their pocket. Sometimes I show mine that is older, but sometimes I refrain from this, because it may damage my credibility more than it helps my discussion.
"mobile device" includes a lot of stuff, from tablets to gps loggers. People who talks about the mobile market usually are concerned about power consumption; reusing the clause to talk about phones can be confusing with some audiences. And explaining "when i say mobile I mean high-level telephones" puts the speaker in a bad corner: anybody who needs uncommon language to make a point, can't make a strong one.
/alessandro