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Cellular telephone
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mobile phone.
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"Mobile phone" is the most common English-language term, while the term "cell phone" is in more common use in North America – both are in essence shorter versions of "mobile telephone" and "cellular telephone", respectively. Often in colloquial terms it is referred to as simply phone, mobile or cell. A number of alternative words have also been used to describe a mobile phone, most of which have fallen out of use, including: "mobile handset", "wireless phone", "mobile terminal", "cellular device", "hand phone", and "pocket phone".