handphone
(rare, mostly, _, obsolete) A telephone receiver or handset.
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(rare, mostly, _, obsolete) A telephone receiver or handset.
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(Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Brunei, South Korea, Hawaii) A mobile phone.
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- French telephone66%
(US, telephony, dated) A telephone with a handset.
- telephone63%
(countable, telephony) A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to communicate with each other over a distance; now usually a device having a dial or keypad with numerals for entering a number, etc., to connect with a person, and means (such as a sound or vibration) for alerting one to an incoming call or transmission; also, the handset or receiver of such a device.
- 📱62%
A modern smartphone, screen-up, with a generic home button. Means phone, "call me", "text me", or — in scolding contexts — "get off your phone". Common in announcements about new phone numbers, screen-time-detox posts, and group-chat reminders. Reads neutral; the surrounding context decides whether it's "use this" or "put this down".
- cell phone62%
(mainly, North America, New Zealand, Philippines) A portable, wireless telephone, which changes antenna connections seamlessly during travel from one radio reception cell to another without losing the party-to-party call connection.