home phones
Wired residential receivers
Home phones are landline telephones connected to a residence, as distinct from mobile phones or office lines.
The term gained currency as cell phones became ubiquitous, requiring a way to specify the older technology: Do you still have a home phone, or just your cell?
Once simply "the phone," home phones are increasingly rare, kept mainly by older adults or for reliability during emergencies.
- cordlessWithout attached wiring
- landlineStationary wired telephone
- ringerImpostor in competition
- dialGraduated circular indicator
- callsContacts by telephone
receiver · keypad · speakerphone · answering machine · call waiting · do not disturb · caller ID · conversations · handset · numbers · busy signal · off the hook · tone dialing · volume control · hang up · base station · pagers · touch-tone
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Portable wireless communication devices
cell phones · cellular phones · smartphones · handheld devices · mobile devices
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