phone

A Phone, short for telephone is a telecommunications device that transmits sound through electronic signals over a distance. This is most often used to conduct conversations between individuals. For a character actively talking on a phone, use phone call.

Types of Phones
  • cellphone: any handheld mobile telephone
    • brick phone: the earliest cellphones, large, blocky mobile phones with antenna used from the 1980s to early 1990s
    • bar phone: a wide range of bar-shaped cellular devices
    • flip phone: a clamshell style folding cellphone, popular from the 1990s to late 2000s
    • smartphone: a mobile computing device with telephone capabilities
  • landline phone: a phone connected via wires to a telephone line, usually sits on a desk or is mounted to a wall
  • payphone: A public pay-per-use telephone, usually wall mounted or housed inside a telephone booth
  • rotary phone: a telephone with a rotary dial instead of buttons or a touch screen interface
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The following tags are aliased to this tag: telephone (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: cellphone, holding_phone (learn more).

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