Motorola T2288 mobile phone

A mobile phone is a portable electronic device which behaves as a normal telephone whilst being able to move over a wide area (compare cordless phone which acts as a telephone only within a limited range). Mobile phones allow connections to be made to the telephone network, normally by directly dialing the other party's number on an inbuilt keypad. Most current mobile phones use a combination of radio wave transmission and conventional telephone circuit switching, though packet switching is already in use for some parts of the mobile phone network, especially for services such as Internet access and WAP. Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1414 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 1414 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A portable phone or cordless phone is a wireless telephone which is associated with a fixed telephone landline (POTS) and can only be operated close to (typically less than 100 metres of) its base station, such as in and around the house. ... The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concatenation of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concatenation of the worlds public IP-based packet-switched networks. ... Radio frequency, or RF, refers to that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in which electromagnetic waves can be generated by alternating current fed to an antenna. ... In communications, transmission is the act of transmitting electrical messages (and the associated phenonomena of radiant energy that pass through media). ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In telecommunication, the term circuit switching has the following meanings: 1. ... In computer networking and telecommunications, packet switching is a communications paradigm in which packets (messages or fragments of messages) are individually routed between nodes, with no previously established communication path. ... This article is about the Internet An internet is a more general term for any set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking Graphic representation of the WWW information network structure around Wikipedia, as represented by hyperlinks The Internet, or simply the Net, is the publicly available worldwide... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Some of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturers include Alcatel, Audiovox, Kyocera (formerly the handset division of Qualcomm), LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric), Philips, Samsung, Sagem, Sanyo, Siemens, SK Teletech, and Sony Ericsson. Alcatel SA (NYSE: ALA) is a global company, headquartered in France that provides hardware, software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises. ... Audiovox (NASDAQ: VOXX) is an electronics company. ... Kyocera (京セラ, also known as Kyoto Ceramics) is a Japanese company based in Kyoto, Japan. ... Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. ... Categories: Corporation stubs | South Korea | Chaebols | Conglomerate ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) (TYO: 6686) is an electronics company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is one of the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. ... Panasonic is principal sponsor of the Toyota F1 team Panasonic is a brand used by Matsushita, a Japanese company, to market its products throughout the world. ... Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Dutch Philips Electronics Ltd. ... The Samsung Group is one of the largest electronics companies in the world. ... SAGEM is a major French company involved in defence electronics, consumer electronics and communication systems. ... SANYO Electric Co. ... Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is the worlds largest electronics company. ... SK Teletech is a Korean company specialising in manufacturing mobile phone terminals. ... Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson) is a joint venture established in 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, to make mobile phones. ...

There are also specialist communication systems related to, but distinct from mobile phones, such as satellite phones and Professional Mobile Radio. A satellite phone or satphone is a mobile phone that communicates directly with orbiting satellites. ... Professional or Personal Mobile Radio are radio systems such as TETRA which are designed for dedicated use by specific organisations. ...

Worldwide deployment

A cellular telephone network is made up of many adjoining geographic areas called cells. Each cell has its own antenna and transceiver. When a person traveling in a car uses a cellular telephone, the network passes the call from one cell to the next cell without interruption. In some U.S. states, it is illegal for a driver of a vehicle to use a cellular telephone not adapted for hands-free operation.

Mobile phones have a long and varied history that stretches back to the 1950s, with hand-held devices being available since 1983. Due to their low establishment costs and rapid deployment, mobile phone networks have since spread rapidly throughout the world, outstripping the growth of fixed telephony. Such networks can often be economic, even with a small customer base, as mobile network costs are mostly call volume related, while fixed-line telephony has a much higher subscriber related cost component. Image File history File links A cellular telephone network is made up of many adjoining geographic areas called cells. ... The history of mobile phones can be traced back to devices that are unrecognisable in todays GSM dominated world. ... A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device that transmits speech by means of electric signals. ...

In most of Europe, wealthier parts of Asia, and Australasia, mobile phones are now virtually universal, with the majority (in some countries and age groups up to 100 percent) of the adult, teenage, and even child population owning one. They are less common in the United States — while widely used, market penetration is lower than elsewhere in the developed world (around 66 percent of the U.S. population as of 2003). Reasons advanced for this include incomplete coverage, a mixture of incompatible technical standards (the GSM standard was designed for Europe-wide interoperability, and all European nations and some Asian nations chose it as their sole standard for this reason, while in Japan and South Korea another single standard, CDMA, standard was selected; in the United States and Canada there was no such standardization), relatively high minimum monthly service charges (around $30), and the availability of relatively low-cost fixed-line networks (around $30 for unlimited local calling). Prepaid or pay as you go services, common elsewhere, are far less common in the U.S., and are much more expensive than comparable services in other countries. Furthermore, text messaging was not a standard feature in North America until recently, and unlike in most other countries, the ability to use international roaming is still rare. The shortage of telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP), and the lack of non-regional special telephone numbers for mobile services, means that the pricing system used elsewhere (calls cost more to make to a mobile, but are free to receive) cannot be used, and as a result users pay to receive calls, discouraging cellphone use. The same technical issues affect mobile telephony in Canada, as it uses the same mix of incompatible standards as does the U.S., and is also part of the NANP. A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... Australasia is the area that includes Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the many smaller islands in the vicinity, most of which are the eastern part of Indonesia. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The United States dollar, or American dollar, is the official currency of the United States. ... Prepaid telephone calls are a popular way of making telephone calls which allow the caller to control spend and not be tied into ongoing commitments with the telephone operator. ... Pay As You Go, often shortened to PAYG, is the general term for the concept of a prepay mobile phone. ... A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ... Roaming is a general term in wireless telecommunications that refers to the extending of connectivity service in a network that is different than the network with which a station is registered. ... The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a system for three-digit area codes that direct telephone calls to particular regions on a public switched telephone network (PSTN), where they are further routed by the local network. ...

Mobile phone culture

In less than twenty years, mobile telephones have gone from being rare and expensive pieces of equipment used by businesses to a pervasive low-cost personal item. In many affluent countries, mobile phones now outnumber land-line telephones, with most adults and many children now owning mobile phones and is not uncommon for young adults to own simply a cell phone instead of a land-line for their residence, even in the U.S. where mobile phone use is less prevalent than other industrialized countries. Mobile phone penetration is increasing around the world; this is particularly true of developing countries, where there is little existing fixed-line infrastructure.

With high levels of mobile telephone penetration, a mobile phone culture has evolved, where the mobile phone becomes a key social tool, and people rely on their mobile phone addressbook to keep in touch with their friends. Many people keep in touch using SMS, and a whole culture of "texting" has developed from this. A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ...

The mobile phone itself has become a totemic and fashion object, with users decorating, customizing, and accessorizing their mobile phones to reflect their personality. Likewise, customized ringtones have been developed, A totem is any natural or supernatural object, being or animal which has personal symbolic meaning to an individual and to whose phenomena and energy one feels closely associated with during ones life. ... The term fashion applies to a characteristic means of expression or presentation; fashions may follow trends, in which they gain or lose popularity. ...

The capabilities of mobile phones are now being expanded further, to become smartphones which can adopt the roles of Internet browser, game console, personal music player, and personal digital assistant. Nokia 3620 A smartphone is generally considered any handheld device that integrates personal information management and mobile phone capabilities in the same device. ... A web browser is a software package that enables a user to display and interact with documents hosted by web servers. ... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a popular video game console. ... Palm IIIxe PDA Personal digital assistants (PDAs or palmtops) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ...

Mobile etiquette has become an important issue with mobiles ringing at funerals, weddings, movies and plays. Users often speak at increased volume, with the effect of nearby people hearing personal conversations that they don't necessarily want to hear; it has become common practice for places like libraries and movie theatres to ban the use of cell phones, even to the point of installing jamming equipment to prevent them. (In areas where public safety radio networks use frequencies near the cellular range, such jammers have been known to disrupt emergency operations. Such equipment, though cheap and readily available, is therefore illegal under most countries' communications regulations.)

Mobile phone features

See main article: Mobile phone features There are many mobile phone features found in todays mobile phones that offer users many more capabilities than voice calls or text messaging. ...

Mobile phones are often packed with features that offer users far more than just the capability to text message and make voice calls.

Health controversy

Main article: Mobile phone radiation and health Mobile phone radiation and health concerns have been raised following the enormous increase in the use of wireless mobile telephony throughout the world (as of December 2004, there were more than 800 million users worldwide). ...

As with many new technologies, concerns have arisen about the effects on health from using a mobile telephone. There is little scientific evidence for an increase in certain types of rare tumors in long-time, heavy users. More recently a pan-European study provided significant evidence of DNA damage under certain conditions. So far, however, the World Health Organization Task Force on EMF effects on health has no definitive conclusion on the veracity of these allegations. (see also Electromagnetic radiation hazard). It is generally thought, however, that RF is incapable of producing any more than heating effects, as it is considered non-ionizing radiation, in other words that it lacks the energy to disrupt molecular bonds such as occurs in genetic mutations. Tumor (American English) or tumour (British English) originally means swelling, and is sometimes still used with that meaning. ... This article is about the continent. ... Space-filling model of a section of DNA molecule Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or deoxyribose nucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life (and many viruses). ... For other meanings of the acronym WHO, see WHO (disambiguation) WHO flag Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Health Organization (WHO) is an agency of the United Nations, acting as a coordinating authority on international public health. ... Electromagnetic radiation can be classified into ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, based on whether it is capable of ionizing atoms and breaking chemical bonds. ... Non-ionising radiation (or in American English non-ionizing radiation) refers to any type of electromagnetic radiation that does not carry enough energy to ionize living material - that is, to completely remove an electron from an atom or molecule. ... Genetics (from the Greek genno γεννώ= give birth) is the science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms. ... Mutations are permanent, sometimes transmissible (if the change is to a germ cell) changes to the genetic material (usually DNA or RNA) of a cell. ...

Other controversial but perhaps more lethal health concern is the correlation with automobile accidents. Several studies have shown that motorists have a much higher risk of collisions and losing control of the vehicle while talking at the mobile telephone simultaneously with driving, even when using "hands-free" systems. A car accident in Yate, near Bristol, England, in July 2004. ... Handsfree is the name of equipment to use a mobile phone without hands when talking. ...

Security concerns

Earlier mobile phones were fairly simple and the major security concern was "cloning", a variant of identity theft which is much more difficult with newer, digital systems. Many users fail to realize that a cell phone is literally a basic walkie-talkie style radio, with some computers helping along the way. Radio scanners dating to about 1996 or '97 typically can receive the old analog cell phones as easy as one can listen to an FM radio. However, over the years technology has made cell phones in the gigahertz range, well above most conventional scanners. In addition, many (most) cell phones on the market today are backed by many digital type encryption systems. Identity theft (or identity fraud) is the deliberate assumption of another persons identity, usually to gain access to their finances or frame them for a crime. ... A walkie-talkie is a portable, bi-directional radio transceiver, first developed for military use. ... FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity broadcast radio sound. ... A gigahertz is a billion hertz or a thousand megahertz, a measure of frequency. ... In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ...

There are also new means of digital communications, such as text messaging and e-mail. As of 2004, even basic phones can send and receive text messages which makes them vulnerable to attack by worms and viruses. Advanced phones capable of e-mail can be susceptible to viruses that can multiply by sending messages through a phone's address book. Of more important concern, a virus may allow unauthorized users to access a phone to find passwords or corporate data stored on the device. Moreover, they can be used to commandeer the phone to make calls or send messages at the owner's expense. Unlike computers that are restricted to only a few widespread operating systems, cellular phones use a variety of systems that require separate programs to be designed in order to disable each one. While reducing overall compatibilty from an application design standpoint, this has the beneficial effect of making it harder to design a mass attack. However, the rise of cellular phone operating system programming platforms shared by many manufacturers such as Java, Microsoft operating systems, Linux, or Symbian OS, may in the future change this status quo. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A received SMS being announced on a Nokia phone. ... WORM means Write Once, Read Many. ... Three types of viruses: a bacterial virus, otherwise called a bacteriophage (left center); an animal virus (top right); and a retrovirus (bottom right). ... Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... A password is a form of authentication which uses secret data to control access to a resource. ... A datum is a statement accepted at face value (a given). Data is the plural of datum. ... The tower of a personal computer (specifically a Power Mac G5). ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Java is an object-oriented programming language developed initially by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Symbian OS is an operating system with associated libraries, user interface frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, produced by Symbian Ltd. ...

Bluetooth is a wireless communication feature now found in many higher-end phones, and the virus Cabir hijacked this function, sending Bluetooth phones on a search-and-destroy mission to infect other Bluetooth phones. In early November 2004, several web sites began offering a specific piece of software promising ringtones and screensavers for certain phones. Those who downloaded the software found that it turned each icon on the phone's screen into a skull-and-crossbones and disabled their phones, so they could no longer send or receive text messages or access contact lists or calendars. The virus has since been dubbed "Skulls" by security experts. The Commwarrior.A virus was identified in March 2005, and it attempts to replicate itself through MMS to others on the phone's contact list. Like Cabir, Commwarrior.A also tries to communicate via Bluetooth wireless connections with other devices, which can eventually lead to draining the battery. The virus requires user intervention for propagation however. Bluetooth telephones are also subject to bluejacking, which is the generally benign transmission of messages from anonymous Bluetooth users. In 2004, rumors spread of using Bluetooth to arrange casual sex hookups; this activity, widely publicized in both print and online media as toothing, was revealed to be a hoax in 2005. This article is about the Bluetooth wireless specification. ... Wireless was an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph. ... Cabir (also known as EPOC.cabir and Symbian/Cabir) is the name of a computer worm developed in 2004 that is designed to infect mobile phones running Symbian OS. It is believed to be the first computer worm that can infect mobile phones. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... A ring tone is the sound made by a telephone when ringing. ... A screensaver is a computer program originally designed to conserve the image quality of computer displays by blanking the screen or filling them with moving images or patterns when the computers are not in use. ... The Savior Not Made By Hands (1410s, by Andrei Rublev) An icon (from Greek εικων, eikon, image) is an artistic visual representation or symbol of anything considered holy and divine, such as God, saints or deities. ... A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. ... Multimedia Messaging System (MMS) is the logical evolution of the Short Message Service SMS, a text-only messaging system for mobile networks. ... Bluejacking is the sending of unsolicited messages over Bluetooth to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as mobile phones, PDAs or laptop computers, sending a vCard which typically contains a message in the name field to another bluetooth enabled device via the OBEX protocol. ... Toothing is a media hoax which claimed that Bluetooth-enabled mobile phones or PDAs were being used to arrange sexual encounters. ...

Future prospects

There is a great deal of active research and development into mobile phone technology that is currently underway. Some of the improvements that are being worked on are:

• One difficulty in adapting mobile phones to new uses is form factor. For example, ebooks may well become a distinct device, because of conflicting form-factor requirements — ebooks require large screens, while phones need to be smaller. However, this may be solved using folding e-paper or built-in projectors.

• One function that will be useful in phones is translation function. Currently it is only available in stand-alone devices, such as Ectaco translators.

• Mobile phones will include various speech technologies as they are being developed. Many phones already have rudimentary speech recognition in a form of voice dialling. Of particular interest will be real-time voice translation (that must include speech recognition, machine translation and speech synthesis). However, more natural speech recognition and translation in these devices requires a drastic improvement in the state of technology: the phone's processor must be faster by several orders of magnitude with the phone requiring far more internal memory, or new ways of processing speech data must be found. Natural language processing requires inordinately powerful hardware.

• New technologies are being explored that will utilize the Extended Internet and enable mobile phones to treat a barcode as a URL tag. Phones equipped with barcode reader-enabled cameras will be able to snap photos of barcodes and direct the user to corresponding sites on the Internet. This same principle could be applied to the ability of cell phones to direct a user to web sites through the reading of RFID tags. Examples of companies that are currently developing this technology are Neomedia (via Paperclick), Airclic, and Scanbuy.

• Developments in miniaturised hard disks and flash drives to solve the storage space issue, therefore opening a window for phones to become portable music libraries and players similar to the iPod.

• The emergence of integration capabilities with other unlicensed access technologies such as a WiMAX and WLAN, as well as allowing handover between traditional operator networks supporting GSM, CDMA and UMTS to unlicensed mobile networks.

• Further improvements in battery life will be required. Colour screens and additional functions put increasing demands on the device's power source, and battery developments may not proceed sufficiently fast to compensate. However, different display technologies, such as OLED displays, e-paper or retinal displays, smarter communication hardware (directional antennae, multi-mode and peer-to-peer phones) may reduce power requirements, while new power technologies such as fuel cells may provide better energy capacity.

• Speculative improvements in the future may be inspired by an English team led by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau who in 2002, developed an implant designed to be inserted into a tooth during dental surgery. This device consists of a radio receiver and transducer, which transmits the sound via bone conduction through the jawbone into the ear. Sound is transmitted via radio waves from another device (ostensibly a mobile phone) and received by the implant. The implant is currently powered externally, given that no current power source is small enough to fit inside the tooth with it. In addition, the implant was only designed to receive signals, not transmit them. Directly tapping into the inner ear or the auditory nerve is already technologically feasible and will become practical as surgical methods advance.

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Terminology

Mobile phone terms

Brick 

A large-sized early handheld mobile phone, such as the Motorola International 3200, nearly the size of a VHS video cassette, with the keypad and microphone on the narrow side.

Candybar 

A housing shape that has no hinges and resembles an oblong candybar.

Cell phone or cellular telephone 

Term used currently in the United States (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.

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".

Handy 

Pronounced "Hendi", this is a pseudo-anglicism, derived from the term Handy Talkie for a handheld military radio, that is used in Austria and Germany for a mobile phone (rare alternative spelling: Händi). Similarly another pseudo-English term Hand phone is used in East and South Asian countries like South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

Mobile phone 

A term covering cellular phones, satellite phones and any phones giving wide ranging mobility, used in most English-speaking countries except the United States.

Mobile 

Short form of the above, a term in everyday usage in some English speaking countries such as the UK.

Satellite phone 

A mobile phone which communicates with a satellite rather than a land-based network.

Wireless phone 

This is a term which is generally used to refer to a mobile phone although it could legitimately cover almost any phone which does not use a wire.

3G phone 

A mobile phone which uses a 3G network, with greater bandwidth allowing faster data downloads and face to face video calling.

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Related systems which are not mobile 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.

Radio Phone 

This is an 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.

Professional Mobile Radio 

Professional mobile radio systems are very similar to mobile 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.

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Terms in other languages

Mobile phones are known as:

• cell phones or cells in Canada, South Africa, United States
• cellphones, cells, or mobile in the Philippines (A modification of the word, celfone, is used by the general public when using the word for sending SMS)
• celulares (singular form celular) in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico and other spanish speaking countries as the spanish word for Cellular
• dzhiesem (джиесем) (from GSM) in Bulgaria, refers only to GSM mobile phones
• Farsími (Official for all mobile phone systems), Gemsi (means young sheep, referring to GSM), GSM-sími (For phones using the GSM System), or NMT-sími (For phones using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-system) in Iceland
• fònaichean làimhe (meaning hand phone; singular form fòn làimhe) or fònaichean phoca (meaning pocket phone; singular form fòn phoca) in Scottish Gaelic
• guthán soghluaiste or fón póca in Irish Gaelic
• GSMs in Belgium.
• hand phones or handphones in many Asian countries such as South Korea
• Handys in Germany and Austria
• telefon-hamráh or hamráh (تلفن همراه, literally companion phone) in Iran
• jawwal (mobile) in Saudi Arabia
• Keitai (携帯,portable, short for keitai denwa,携帯電話, portable telephone) in Japan; semantic development is very close to words like mobile
• khelyawi (cellular) in Lebanon
• kinitó (κινητό), short for kinitó tiléfono (κινητό τηλέφωνο), which means mobile phone in Greece and Cyprus
• komórki (singular form komórka) or telefon komórkowy, meaning cells/cellular phone in Poland
• mahmool (محمول) in Arabic
• matkapuhelimet (literally travel-phones, singular form matkapuhelin) or kännykät (singular form kännykkä, very close in meaning to the German Handy) in Finland; actually trademarked by Nokia in 1987 but fallen into generic use and would probably not be upheld any more if contested in a court of law
• Meu Teu in Thailand
• mobieltjes in the Netherlands
• mobifon (мобифон), a contraction of mobilen telefon (мобилен телефон) in Bulgaria, which came into usage with the introduction of 1G mobile phones. As GSM mobile phones became more widely used, some started calling them dzhiesem as to distinguish them from 1G phones. The remaining 1G phones are still refered to as mobifon, while GSM phones are refered to by most as dzhiesem, although it is looked down upon by some.
• mobil in Slovakia
• mòbils in Andorra
• mobiles in Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand, UK
• mobilní telefony (singular form mobilní telefon), or simply mobily (mobil) in Czech Republic
• mobilny telefon (= mobile phone), or mobilnik for short. Older names are sotovy telefon (= cell phone) and trubka (= handset) in Russia
• mobiltelefon or a mobil in Denmark, Hungary, Norway, Sweden (sometimes nalle in Sweden, meaning teddy bear translated to English, originally referring to the term yuppie-nalle since until the late 1980s only rich yuppies could afford them and they showed them off in a way that looked as they were carrying a yuppie teddy bear, nowadays only nalle is used representing that people always carry them around and feel insecure if they misplace them, like a child missing their teddy bear)
• /pelefon/ (literally wonder-phone), as derived from the first such operator, or /najad/ (mobile) in Israel
• móviles (móvil) in Spanish and mòbils (mòbil) in Catalan in Spain
• Natel ("Nationales Autotelefon") in Switzerland
• Ponsel (telepon selular, cellular phones), or HP (shortened from Hand Phone, but pronounced ha-pe, not like HP in English) in Indonesia
• poŝtelefonoj ("pocket phones", pronounced poshtelefonoy) by users of Esperanto
• portable (literally portable) in France
• sau kei (hand machine) in Hong Kong*
• shǒu jī (手機 hand machine * Same term for Hong Kong) or xíng dòng dǐan hùa (行動電話 mobile phone) in Mainland China and Taiwan
• Telefonino (meaning small phone), or Cellulare (short form for Telefono cellulare) in Italy
• /telefon selolari/ (cellular phone) in formal hebrew
• telefon mobil (pl. telefoane mobile), but the short form is more common: mobil (mobile) in Romania
• telemóveis (singular form telemóvel) in Portugal
• telefoonka gacanta (literally "hand's phone") in Somalia

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See also

• Mobile phone generations: 0G, 1G, 2G, 2.5G, 2.75G, 3G and 4G
• History of mobile phones
• Smartphone
• Digital camera integration.
• Japanese cell phone culture
• Largest mobile phone companies
• List of mobile phones running Linux
• Satellite: Iridium, Inmarsat
• Location based service and GSM localization.
• GPS integration.
• MIDlet
• Push to talk
• Over The Air Programmable
• Mobile Payment Services Association
• Mobile phones on aircraft
• Fixed-line telephony
• Telecommunication
• Messages: SMS, MMS
• Wire and Wireless Connectivity: Bluetooth, bluechat, bluedating, wifi, USB.
• Mobile power: battery, car lighter, solar energy
• Marine and mobile radio telephony
• Dropped call
• Microbrowser
• E-waste
• moblog - mobile weblog
• Wireless Village - mobile phone instant messaging protocol

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A microbrowser (sometimes minibrowser or mobile browser) is a web browser designed for use on a handheld device such as a PDA or mobile phone. ... The term e-waste is applied to all waste from or caused by electronics, which is often toxic waste. ... Moblog is a blend of the words mobile and weblog. ... Wireless Village is a set of specifications for mobile instant messaging and presence services. ...

External links

• Wireless Glossary
• Cell Phone Glossary
• Mobile Phone Reviews
• Cell phones in Japan
• USA Mobile and Cell Phone FAQs.
• Cell Phone Safety
• How Cell Phones Work
• Linux and mobile phones
• Mobile phones
• Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium (MIPC).
• Wikipedia on WAP enabled cellular phones
• Wireless Local Number Portability - WLNP
• Mobile Banking
• repair and upgrade instructions for mobile (cell) phones
• GSM Helpdesk Netherlands (information and support)
• Japan cell phone industry blog