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mobile phone

noun

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More restrictions on how mobile phone carriers and apps are allowed to collect and share location data – and on how the government is allowed to obtain and use location information about people – could help protect your privacy. Emilee Rader, The Conversation, 3 Dec. 2025 Young lead Bai Xiao-Ying gave up her mobile phone for three months to understand what childhood felt like in that era. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2025 What To Know Jordan claimed that in April 2022, lawyers subpoenaed Verizon for his phone records, seeking 28 months of mobile phone data, which included the time and recipient of a call, the call's duration and the general location data associated with the call. Simon Crerar, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025 In 2021, Gesture sued tech giants Apple, Google, and LG, arguing that the trio had infringed on its patents related to the use of motion-sensing in mobile phone cameras. Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mobile phone

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First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mobile phone was in 1975

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“Mobile phone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mobile%20phone. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.

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