Mobile phone

A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, hand phone, or simply a phone) is a phone that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area.

It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network.

By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station.

In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as:

• Text messaging
• MMS, email
• Internet access
• Short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth)
• Business applications
• Gaming
• Photography

Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones.

External Links

• Mobile phone @ Wikipedia