EP175 Buying A New Mobile Phone | Daily Life

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  Hello everyone and welcome to EnglishPod.

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  My name is Marco.

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  My name is Catherine and today we have an intermediate level lesson all about cell phones.

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  That's right.

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  We're going to be buying a cell phone or also known as a mobile phone.

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  So before we jump into the dialogue, let's take a look at a specific type of phone on vocabulary preview.

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  Vocabulary preview.

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  Well, the name of this phone is kind of funny.

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  It's called a smartphone.

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  It's very popular these days.

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  Things like the Apple iPhone or the HTC Hero.

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  These are examples of a smartphone.

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  That's right.

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  So basically a smartphone has additional functions more than just a normal mobile phone.

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  For example, you can check your email on a smartphone.

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  Yeah, so the thing that makes a smartphone different from a normal mobile phone is that it's like a small computer.

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  You can do things like Marco said, send emails or take photos,

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  edit photos, use applications, things like that from your phone.

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  Okay.

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  So we're going to be talking about smartphones.

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