What is a "Cell Mobile"? The Most Authoritative Explanation.
Is a cell phone a phone?
(Note: I almost never hear people say telephone anymore either). Strictly speaking, a cell (cellular) phone is a mobile phone, but a mobile phone may not necessarily be a cell phone. "Cellular" refers to the network technology.What is a cell phone called in Canada?
In Canada the words I hear most often are "cell" or "cell phone", almost nobody says "cellular" anymore. The cell phone providers usually call them "mobile" phones which is more precise since "cell" refers to a kind of technology. In Chinese one of the common words for it is 手机, (shǒujī) which literally means "hand machine".Does 'cell' have a technical meaning?
No, 'cell' has a technical meaning - see Elijah's answer (or Wikipedia). In the UK, we use mobile and/or phone, and perhaps even mobi/moby (though I've never seen it written that way outside text messages.What is the difference between landline and cellular?
Landline is a device receiving signal through a fixed phone line (which is not always a circuit; sometimes the device is a pretty large phone with a SIM making it quite mobile, sometimes handheld, still it's considered a landline phone). cellular (or cell for short) are called the devices utilizing signal received through a "cellular network"
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