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Mobile phone - Terminology: Encyclopedia II - Mobile phone - Terminology

Mobile phone - Mobile phone terms. Brick A large, heavy, and usually obsolete wireless mobile phone, such as the Motorola International 3200. Candy bar A housing shape that has no hinges and resembles an oblong candy bar (US). Cell phone, cellular phone, or cell Term used currently in the United States and Canada (and in other countries as well during the 1980s) to refer to most mobile phones. It technically applies specifically to mobile phones which use a ce ...

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Mobile phone: Encyclopedia II - Mobile phone - Terminology

Mobile phone - Terminology

Mobile phone - Mobile phone terms

Brick A large, heavy, and usually obsolete wireless mobile phone, such as the Motorola International 3200. Candy bar A housing shape that has no hinges and resembles an oblong candy bar (US). Cell phone, cellular phone, or cell Term used currently in the United States and Canada (and in other countries as well during the 1980s) to refer to most mobile phones. It technically applies specifically to mobile phones which use a cellular network. In developing mobile phone technology, American electrical engineers saw the main technical problem as achieving a smooth handoff from one radio antenna to the next. After they gave the name "cell" to the zone covered by each antenna, it was a natural choice for them to apply the term "cellular" to both the technology and the phones that ran on it. Cinderblock Another name for a "brick" Clamshell A phone that opens up to reveal the keypad, microphone, and earpiece; these are typically more compact than other designs. Often called "flip phones". Clamshell phones became very popular in the United States after the introduction of Motorola's StarTAC in 1996. Hand phone A common term in South East Asia encompassing cell phones or any wireless phones connected to telecommunication providers. Handset The term handset is used by manufacturers to refer to a mobile phone. Also commonly used by industry insiders. Hands-free car kit Mobile phone accessory used to talk while keeping hands on the steering wheel. Handy Pronounced "hendee", is a pseudo-anglicism, derived from the term Handy Talkie for a handheld military radio (also known as walkie-talkie), that is used in Austria and Germany for a mobile phone (rare alternative spelling: Händi). In German, the word "Handy" is derived from "handgehaltenes (or hand-held) Telefon." Similarly another pseudo-English term Hand phone is used in East and South Asian countries like South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. Mobile Short for "mobile phone", a term in everyday usage in some English-speaking countries such as the UK. Mobile phone A term covering cellular phones, satellite phones, and any phones giving wide ranging mobility, used in most English-speaking countries. Ringtone A song or tune that is played when a mobile phone is receiving a call. Satellite phone A mobile phone which communicates with a satellite rather than a land-based network. Shouji, Shouji dianhua (手机，手机电话) A similar term to that of handphone or mobile phone but is translated to mean hand's device or hand's device telephone; predominantly used in Mandarin speaking countries primarily China and Taiwan. 3G phone A mobile phone which uses a 3G network, with greater bandwidth allowing faster data downloads and face-to-face video calling. Wireless phone A term that generally refers to a Wi-Fi VoIP phone but is sometimes used by the mobile phone industry to describe mobile phones.

Mobile phone - Related systems which are not cell phones

Cordless phone (portable phone) Cordless phones are standard telephones with radio handsets. Unlike mobile phones, cordless phones use private base stations that are not shared between subscribers. The base station is connected to a land-line. Professional Mobile Radio Professional mobile radio systems are very similar to cell phone systems and attempts have even been made to use TETRA, the international digital PMR standard, to implement public mobile networks, but normally PMR systems are sufficiently separate from the phone network to not really be considered phones but rather radios. Radio phone This is a term which covers radios which could connect into the telephone network. These phones may not be mobile; for example, they may require a mains power supply. Also, they may require the assistance of a human operator to set up a PSTN phone call.