What is a mobile phone called in your country?

"mobile phone" in Denmark

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I can concur with Francis for the UK. In the Philippines, it is
cellphone. In New Zealand, I've seen both used but mobile seems to
be the most common. I await correction! ;-)

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In India,

Mobile phone is called "mobile"
Landline Phone as"telephone / landline"
SMS as "SMS", in fact if referred as "text message" ...chances
are people won't recognize.

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Korea
"%uD578%uB4DC%uD3F0" (Hand phone) and
"%uD734%uB300%uD3F0"(hyu-dae phone) in general

"%uB2E8%uB9D0%uAE30" (Dan-mal gi) among experts in telecom biz.

In Japan
"%u643A%u5E2F%u96FB%u8A71" (Kei Tai Den Wa) or Keitai in short

It is interesting you can find "hand" in many countries.

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In Germany it is either called "Handy" (colloquial) or
"Mobiltelefon". So if have a German form asking for your mobile
number, you usually have the field called "Mobilnummer" or
"Mobiltelefon" or simply "Mobil".

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In Germany we say just "Handy" without phone and in the States they also
often just call it "cell" without phone aswell.
Would you post this entire list here once you have all necessary countries?
Thanks!!

Regards,
Verena

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Stephen Holmes <stephenwholmes at me.com>wrote:

> I'm aware that different countries have different generic names for
> their mobile phones (as we call them here in Australia).
>
> In the USA it seems to be a "cell phone", in parts of Asia where
> I've worked it is a "handy phone".
>
> Any others?
>
> I need this for a way of a user differentiating mobile phone numbers
> from land-line phone numbers.
>
> thanks
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> Stephen
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I believe in Indonesia, they call it hand phone or simply abbreviated as
"hp" pronounced "ha-pe". "*Ha*" as if in *ha*m and "*pe*" as if in*Pe*psi.
In terms of texting, they use "SMS".

Cheers,
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2009/5/5 Ferran Alvarez <zumaques at zumaques.com>

> In Spain is called "teléfono móvil" or "móvil", in short.
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In Belgium/Dutch, it's generally and colloquially called a "GSM" (not mobile
or cell). More official wording might be "mobiele telefoon" - I should check
on various websites.
Peter

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Boon Chew <boon.chew at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Handphone" or "hp" for short in Malaysia.
> "Mobile phone" or "Mobile" for short in the UK
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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Peter Van Dijck <petervandijck at gmail.com>wrote:

> I summarized the discussion so far here in case someone wants it:
> http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2009/05/05/4597/what-is-a-mobile-phone-called
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> Peter
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> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Peter Van Dijck <petervandijck at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> In Belgium/Dutch, it's generally and colloquially called a "GSM" (not
>> mobile or cell). More official wording might be "mobiele telefoon" - I
>> should check on various websites.
>> Peter
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>> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Boon Chew <boon.chew at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> "Handphone" or "hp" for short in Malaysia.
>>> "Mobile phone" or "Mobile" for short in the UK
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In Cuba they call it "Celular" from "cell", refered as in "el
celular...", also "móvil" like in Spain.

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In Brazil, just like in Argentina and Cuba it's called "celular" (cell) or
"telefone celular" (cell phone).
Cheers! Ricardo Seiji.

In Italy is called: Cellulare (Cellular) or Telefono Cellulare (mobile
cellular)

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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:34 AM, iamshimone <shimone at shimone.info> wrote:

> In Israel it's called "Pelefon" which translates to "wonder
> phone". I've always loved that :)
>
>
(Israel Update)

Actually, interestingly enough, "nayad" (meaning "mobile") has begun to
overtake "pelephone" in everyday conversation. This is particularly
fascinating because Pelephone was actually the first/dominant mobile company
in Israel, and it appears the "Kleenex-effect" is now wearing off.

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Canada: celphone, cellular phone
Hong Kong: %u624B%u6A5F ("Hand" "Machine"), %u624B%u63D0
("Hand" "Carry")
Japan: %u643A%u5E2F(KEI TAI, meaning Hand-carry / portable)

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I think its quite useful to talk to people in their common terminology
to simply things. In pakistan (South East Asia) its mostly called jus
"mobile" or "cell".

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In Russia we call it Мобил&#x044Cный which means "Mobile".
In the early mobile era people referred to them more frequently as Сотовый which means "cellular".

Instead of "landline phone" we usually call it just "home phone" or "work phone". Sometimes we say "city phone".

In Maine (USA). I say "mobile" only when talking to designers/developers etc.  With lay people it's "cell"  unless they're over 60 or so -- then it's "cell phone."