[Ads-l] OT: According to Amazon.de,

[Dan Goncharoff]

Handy is the German word for cellphone, derived, I think, from the
brand name of an early Japanese phone sold there.

Angebote means offer, so it makes sense that an iPhone is "a cellphone offer".
DanG


On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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