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The mobile phone (also calle a mobile, wireless, cellular phone, cell phone, or hand phone(hp)) is a short-range, portable electronic device used 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 telephone, current mobile phones may support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS 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. 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).

Trivia about mobiles

  • Marcel Duchamp coined this term to describe Alexander Calder's moving sculptures
  • Alexander Rodchenko is credited with developing these sculptures by suspending wood structures
  • Alexander Calder called these creations "four-dimensional drawings"
  • This word was suggested by Marcel Duchamp for art in a 1932 exhibit that included Alexander Calder

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