mobile phone

noun

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With mobile phone use, about half showed high addiction and a quarter had increasing addiction. Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 18 June 2025 These are the media moguls of the mobile phone era, the exact types of innovators that Forbes has chronicled for a century. Randall Lane, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Trump Mobile is also slated to launch a mobile phone, the T1 Phone, which uses an Android operating system, according to its website. Melina Khan, USA Today, 17 June 2025 Trump Family Deals The announcement of the new mobile phone and service follows several real estate deals for towers and resorts in the Middle East, including a golf development in Qatar announced in April. Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 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 28 Jun. 2025.

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