What is a mobile device?
Question is above. Would a laptop also be a mobile device? (Is also mobile, you can take it with you…)
Depends on where you saw it. I would guess that it means smartphones. But maybe laptops too.
Sometimes that's different. In principle, "mobile device" means that it is a device that is portable and can be used on the go (e.g. Also a laptop). However, some use the word as a synonym for "smartphone".
In network jargon, end devices are referred to as PCs, laptops, etc.
A mobile device is probably a smartphone or laptop with WLAN.
In the case of a laptop, I would make this dependent on the operating system in addition to the size. They are available for mobile devices (cell phones, tablets) and for the classic computer. At Apple there are known mac OS for computers and iOS for mobile devices. I don't know much about Android and Windows.
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