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Mobile phones are known as:
- cellular, mobile or telefon in Lebanon.
- cell phones or cell in Canada, India, New Zealand,
Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, United States.
- celular or cel in Albania.
- celulares (singular form celular) in Argentina, Chile,
Mexico, Puerto Rico and other Spanish-speaking countries except Spain as the
Spanish word for Cellular. It is also used in Portuguese-speaking
Brazil.
- cep telefonu (pocket phone) in Turkey
- clamshell in the United States, a phone that opens up to reveal
the keypad, microphone, and earpiece; these are typically more compact than
other designs. Often called "flip phones" (although 'flip phone' is a
trademark of Motorola). Clamshell phones became very popular in the United
States after the introduction of Motorola's StarTAC in 1996.
- dzhiesem (джиесем) (from GSM) in Bulgaria, refers only to GSM
mobile phones
- Di động (mobile phone) , điện thoại cầm tay (handy phone)
or môbai in Vietnam.
- Farsími (Official for all mobile phone systems), Gemsi (means
young sheep, referring to GSM), GSM-sími (For phones using the GSM
System), or NMT-sími (For phones using the Nordic Mobile
Telephone-system) in Iceland
- fònaichean làimhe (meaning hand phone; singular form fòn
làimhe) or fònaichean phoca (meaning pocket phone; singular form
fòn phoca) in Scottish Gaelic
- ffôn symudol in Welsh
- fón póca, teileafón póca ('pocket telephone') or guthán
soghluaiste ('mobile telephone') in Irish
- GSMs in Belgium (in Dutch as well as in French).
- hand phones or handphones (핸드폰) in many Asian countries
such as Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea, encompassing cell phones or any
wireless phones connected to telecommunication providers. In South Korea, it
is also called hyudae jeonhwa (휴대 전화; 携帶電話) or hyudaepon
(휴대폰).
- handyphone in the Philippines by Globe Telecom (used by the main
mobile branch of Globe, Globe Handyphone)
- Handy (plural form Handys), pronounced /hɛndi/,
a pseudo-anglicism that is used in Austria and Germany for a mobile phone (rare
alternative spelling: Händi). In German, the word "Handy" has the
meaning of "Hand-Telefon" or "handgehaltenes Mobiltelefon" (translated to
English: "handheld mobile telephone"). The term possibly derived from the
1940s product name Handie-Talkie for a handheld military radio. (The
backpack version was introduced as Walkie-Talkie.)
- telefon-hamráh or hamráh (تلفن همراه, literally
companion phone) in Iran
- jawwal (mobile) in Saudi Arabia
- ګرزندوی (Gharzandoi) (mobile) in Pashto, Afghanistan
- Keitai (携帯, portable, short for keitai denwa, 携帯電話,
portable telephone) in Japan; semantic development is very close to
words like mobile. "Handy Phone" is also used (ハンディフォン)
- khelyawi (cellular) in Lebanon
- kinitó (κινητό), short for kinitó tiléfono (κινητό
τηλέφωνο), which means mobile phone in Greece and Cyprus
- komórki (singular form komórka) or telefon komórkowy,
meaning cells/cellular phone in Poland
- mahmool (محمول) or Jawwal (جوَّال') or
Khelyawi (خليوي) or Mobile (موبايل) in Arabic
- matkapuhelimet (literally travel-phones, singular form
matkapuhelin) or kännykät (singular form kännykkä, very
close in meaning to the German Handy) in Finland; actually
trademarked by Nokia in 1987 but fallen into generic use and would probably
not be upheld any more if contested in a court of law
- Meu Teu (มือถือ) in Thailand
- moby, short for "mobile" (in the sense of "mobile phone"), a
slang term in everyday usage in the UK.
- mobieltje in the Netherlands
- mobifon (мобифон), a contraction of mobilen telefon (мобилен
телефон) in Bulgaria, which came into usage with the introduction of 1G
mobile phones. As GSM mobile phones became more widely used, some started
calling them dzhiesem as to distinguish them from 1G phones. The
remaining 1G phones are still referred to as mobifon, while GSM
phones are referred to by most as dzhiesem, although it is looked
down upon by some.
- mobil in Denmark, Hungary, Norway, Slovakia and Sweden
- mobilais telefons or mobilais in Latvia
- mobile, short for "mobile phone" (in the sense of "cellular phone"),
a term in everyday usage in some English-speaking countries such as the UK,
Ireland, and Australia. Also commonly used by industry insiders in the
United States, although with a different pronunciation. A common term to use
in Pakistan.
- mobiles in Australia, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, UK
- Мобілка or Mobilka as a slang term in Ukraine
- mobilní telefony (singular form mobilní telefon), or
simply mobily (mobil) in Czech Republic
- mobilny telefon (= mobile phone), or mobilnik, mobila for
short. Older names are sotovy telefon (= cell phone) and trubka,
truba (= handset) in Russia
- mòbils in Andorra
- mobiltelefon in Denmark, Germany (Mobiltelefon, formerly
Mobiltelephon, is the official German term), Hungary, Norway, Sweden (sometimes
nalle in Sweden, meaning teddy bear translated to English,
originally referring to the term yuppie-nalle since until the late
1980s only rich yuppies could afford them and they showed them off in
a way that looked as they were carrying a yuppie teddy bear, nowadays only
nalle is used representing that people always carry them around and
feel insecure if they misplace them, like a child missing their teddy bear)
- mobilus telefonas or mobilus in Lithuania
- mobitel in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia. They are named
after company called Mobitel which was the first national cell phone network
operator. The name is made from the words for Mobile and Telephone.
- " celular",and even "celula" or a bit older term : movicom (because
of the first company to have a cell phone network)in Uruguay.
- móviles (móvil) in Spanish and mòbils (mòbil)
in Catalan in Spain
- muthophone (phone in the palm) in Bangladesh. This term is used
because mobile phone can be held and used in palm. This term is popular
among teenagers and in the literary world of Dhaka.
- Natel ("Nationales Autotelefon") in
Switzerland
- /pelefon/ (פלאפון; literally wonder-phone), as derived from the
first such operator, or /najad/ (נייד; mobile) in Israel
- Ponsel (telepon selular, cellular phones), or HP (shortened
from Hand Phone, but pronounced ha-pe, not like HP in English) in Indonesian
- poŝtelefonoj ("pocket phones", pronounced poshtelefonoy)
by users of Esperanto
- portable (literally portable) in France
- sau kei (Simplified Chinese:手机 Traditional Chinese:手機), Cantonese
transliteration for "手机" or "手機", a similar term to that of handphone or
mobile phone but is translated to mean hand's device or hand's
device telephone, used in Canonese speaking areas Hong Kong and
Guangdong Province of China.
- shou ji (Simplified Chinese:手机 Traditional Chinese:手機), the
Chinese pinyin spelling translation for "手机" or "手機", a similar term to that
of handphone or mobile phone but is translated to mean hand's device
or hand's device telephone, used in Mandrin speaking areas Mainland
China and Taiwan.
- slider, a form where the two halves slide together. This design
allows the main display to be shown while the keypad is hidden. [where is it
used?]
- sotka (short form of cellular phone in Russian language) in
Uzbekistan
- Telefon Bimbit (Mobile Phone) in Bahasa Malaysia*
- telefon selolari (cellular phone) in formal Hebrew. Most of the
Israelis say pelephone (פלאפון) like the name of the first mobile
company.
- telefon mobil (pl. telefoane mobile), but the short form
is more common: mobil (mobile) in Romania; celular (pl.
celulare) is also common
- Telefonino (meaning small phone), or Cellulare (short form
for Telefono cellulare) in Italy
- telefonito (meaning little phone) in Argentina.
- telefoonka gacanta (literally "hand's phone") in Somalia
- telemóvel ("telefone móvel", "mobile telephone") in
Portugal
- telephono cellular by speakers of Interlingua
- teleponong selyular (cellular telephone) in the Philippines, used
when speaking in Filipino
- xing dong dian hua (行動電話) in Taiwan, literal Chinese translation
of "mobile phone".
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