Talk:Mobile phone
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Changes to the article
Can I ask that anyone who wants to suggest a change to the article does the edit directly themselves in the article itself? There is a strange culture on this article which doesn't appear anywhere else on wikipedia that I know of. People seem to leave edit requests here rather than just changing the article. See WP:Bold for more information in case you're not sure of what the wikipedia policy is regarding editing articles yourself.ChrisUK (talk) 20:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
- The article is currently semi-protected, which probably explains some of it. In general, though, yeah being bold is best. - 2/0 (cont.) 21:30, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Colony collapse disorder
In reference to this edit: some people claim that mobile phones are linked to Colony collapse disorder; obviously if we cover this then the actual research should be cited and it should not be presented as an established fact until the finding is replicated, but should this article mention this at all? Until there is some indication that the relevant scientific community is considering this hypothesis seriously (a couple studies, a review, and a few articles in the popsci press, say), I think that it is undue weight to cover the idea here. - 2/0 (cont.) 21:55, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
mobile phone
A mobile phone (also called mobile, cellphone or handphone)[1] is an electronic device used for mobile telecommunications over a cellular network of base stations known as cell sites. Mobile phones differ from cordless telephones, which only offer telephone service within limited range through a single base station attached to a fixed line, for example within a home or an office. Low-end mobile phones are often referred to as feature phones, whereas high-end mobile phones that offer more advanced computing ability are referred to as smartphones.
www.nokia.co.in —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.164.109.57 (talk) 09:42, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
SIM cards
Someone with more rights than I could make some corrections to statements about SIM cards. The handset features section states that all cell phones have "a SIM card which allows the phone user access to the particular mobile phone operator that they have a subscription with." The SIM card section also states that mobile phones require a SIM card to function. These statements are true only of all GSM phones. CDMA phones do not have SIM cards. The SIM card section after stating that all phones require a SIM card revises the previous statement with some talk about "those cell phones that do not use a SIM Card." This wording is likely confusing in particular for CDMA users. Ennustaja (talk) 11:10, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- Made a basic pass, but the article could probably use a more thorough run-through. - 2/0 (cont.) 17:44, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
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982 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.65.110.46 (talk) 12:18, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Israel does not prohibit the usage of cellular phone in the car by speaker, the information is incorrect
Here is a copy of the law stating this: http://www.al-a.co.il/%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%99%D7%92%D7%94_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9A_%D7%93%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8_%D7%91%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A8%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%9C%D7%90_%D7%93%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blacknight12321 (talk • contribs) 14:20, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Israel does not prohibit the usage of cellular phone in the car by speaker, the information is incorrect —Preceding unsigned comment added by Blacknight12321 (talk • contribs) 14:18, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
My company has an R&D facility in Israel and I asked them to weigh in on this issue. Currently, the law is that you are not allowed to speak on the phone if you are holding it. Hands free is allowed i.e. bluetooth headset or speaker(not while being held). They are looking to find a reference for this law in English. --Powermatassistant (talk) 17:31, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Statistical discrepancy - "4.6 billion cell phone contracts"
That statistic sounds as invalid as the claim by the NFL that 4 billion people watch the superbowl (unless there are people next to their wildfires with battery-powered TVs trying to catch the game). Let's see: EU has about 1/2 billion citizens and US has 1/3 billion while China has 1 billion. Let's assume half those citizens own a cellphone (which is probably optimistic) to give us 1.8/2 == 0.9 billion contracts.
Now where do you suppose those other 3.7 billion cellphone users reside? I don't think wikipedia should be citing numbers that make zero logical sense (i.e. dubious). ---- Theaveng (talk) 13:56, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
- Contract doesn't mean unique user. Amazon's Kindle uses a cellular modem. Many business users have multiple cellular devices. Home security systems often include them. — ceejayoz talk 22:50, 7 August 2010 (UTC)