mobile phone

noun

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Motorola once accounted for more than 50% of the mobile phone market before filing for bankruptcy. Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 That might mean covering the electricity or mobile phone bill. Beck Harlan, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025 SpaceX’s partner in Japan, mobile phone company KDDI, is also offering the cellular Starlink service. PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025 While driving, McGee dropped his mobile phone and scrambled to pick it up. Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 29 Aug. 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 10 Sep. 2025.

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