mobile phone

noun

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The Saudi Aramco logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen in this photo illustration, as prices fluctuate amid escalating conflict involving Iran and concerns over global supply disruptions in Brussels, Belgium, on March 2, 2026. Azhar Sukri, CNBC, 10 May 2026 Most of the world right now will do e-commerce on a mobile phone. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 10 May 2026 As landlines go the way of the dinosaur and mobile phone communication becomes the standard, the need for these types of communication towers continues to rise. Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 30 Apr. 2026 Then there is the curious case of the Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze, who shot his latest feature, Dry Leaf, with the camera of a nearly twenty-year-old mobile phone. Dennis Lim, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026 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 15 May. 2026.

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