Mobile phone

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"Mobiles" redirects here. For the UK New Wave pop band, see The Mobiles.

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Several examples of non-flip mobile phones.

A mobile phone (also known as ahandphone,^[1] wireless phone, cell phone,cellular phone, cellular telephone or cell telephone) is a long-range, electronic deviceused for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a mobile phone, telephone, current mobile phones may support many additional services, and accessories, such asSMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared,camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video, MP3 player, radio andGPS. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations (cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones)