The tag implication #63967 walkie-talkie -> radio has been rejected.

Reason: While walkie-talkie is the term for a radio, that's not what it's always referred to as.

EDIT: The tag implication walkie-talkie -> radio (forum #408956) has been rejected by @spe.

The tag implication walkie-talkie -> radio (forum #408956) has been rejected by @spe.

To be fair, it's a handheld version of a radio, used for specific medium- to short-range person-to-person communication that predates cellphones.

clawstripe said:
To be fair, it's a handheld version of a radio, used for specific medium- to short-range person-to-person communication that predates cellphones.

I think it probably makes sense to keep two-way transceiver radios seperate from "normal" one way reciver-only radios. one's a communication device, the other is an entertainment/information device.

dba_afish said:
I think it probably makes sense to keep two-way transceiver radios seperate from "normal" one way reciver-only radios. one's a communication device, the other is an entertainment/information device.

Radio as a word commonly applies to both, though. HAM radio, for instance.

The problem is that the entertainment/information device called a "radio" is not commonly known by any other name. Walkie-talkies may use the same technology (also called radio, annoyingly), but having them imply radio would leave actual "radios" without their own tag.

Both could imply "radio technology" or something like that, if we really cared to lump them together in some way, but even that sounds superfluous to me.