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Cell phones are recent enough that a specific collective noun has not come into common use. When there is no collective noun, a noun that suits the circumstances is used. If it becomes used regularly and commonly, it eventually becomes 'the collective noun'.
Since the industry is bent on customers constantly upgrading, a person may have a series of cell phones; a person may have a number of cell phones for different purposes, a variety of cell phones; an electronics department would have a selection of cell phones.
Contributors have offered 'an exchange of cell phones', 'a ring of cell phones, and 'an annoyance of cell phones', and I would throw in 'a one upsmanship of cell phones'.
A collective noun becomes a collective noun when it becomes the most commonly used term for something.
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∙ 9y ago
Wiki User
∙ 10y agoThere is no specific collective noun for phones, in which case a noun suitable for the situation can be used, for example, a collection of phones, a network of phones, an annoyance of phones, etc.
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