mobile phone

noun

Examples of mobile phone in a Sentence

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The company has long been a dominant provider of mobile phone chips, including the central processor and modem for high-end devices made by Samsung and modems for Apple iPhones. Ari Levy, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2025 Roughly 72% of the island has no power and 65% of mobile phone sites are down. Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 31 Oct. 2025 In Beijing, she was hustling from the get go, first helping a sister who had a mobile phone stall in an underground mall, and later running a shop of her own. John Ruwitch, NPR, 30 Oct. 2025 Your mobile phone never needs to leave your pocket. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 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 7 Nov. 2025.

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