mobile phone

noun

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Traffic lights stopped working, telephone lines were down, mobile phone networks were affected, card payment machines were down and trains have stopped running. Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025 Not Enough People Are Watching ‘NYT Mini’ Clues And Answers For Saturday, April 26 New Google Leak Reveals Subscription Changes For Gemini AI Nokia once held over a third of the global mobile phone market. Erik Logan, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025 Overall, Charter had 29.1 million residential customers taking its Internet, mobile phone, video and other products at the end of the first quarter, down 2.1 percent from a year-earlier 29.7 million overall subscribers. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 Apr. 2025 Photo illustration shows the TikTok logo displayed on a mobile phone screen. Jonathan Vanian,zach Vallese, CNBC, 1 Apr. 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 5 May. 2025.

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