Telephone (disambiguation)
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A telephone is a telecommunication device which is used to transmit and receive sound simultaneously.
Telephone may also refer to:
Telecommunications
- Camera phone, a mobile phone that is also able to capture either still photographs or video
- Cordless telephone, a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves to its base station
- Mobile phone, a wireless telecommunications device used for phone and data calls over a cellular network
- Radiotelephone or radiophone, a telephone that allows two or more people to talk via radio, often referring to an older radio telephone system that predated modern mobile (cellular) phones
- Softphone, a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using computers
- Telephone (application), a softphone telecommunication app for Mac OS X, by Alexei Kuznetsov
- Tin can telephone, a type of voice-transmitting device usually made from two tin cans and string or wire
- Videophone, telephones with video displays, which enable their users to see each other as well in real time
Music, film and the arts
- Téléphone, a French rock band formed in 1976
- "Telephone" (song), a 2010 song by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé
- "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)", a 1983 song by Sheena Easton
- "Telephone (Won't You Ring)", a 1962 song by Shelley Fabares
- "Telephone", a 1984 song by Diana Ross
- "Telephone", a 1992 song by Chaka Khan on her album The Woman I Am
- "Telephone", a 2008 song by Erykah Badu on her album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
- The Telephone Album, a 1998 album by the band Lotion
- Telefone, a 2016 mixtape by Noname
- Telefon (film), a 1977 spy film directed by Don Siegel
Other uses
- Chinese whispers (also known as Telephone, Broken Telephone, Le téléphone arabe, Wisper Down The Lane, or the Telephone Game), a children's game
- Telephone, Texas, an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas