Analog or digital communications device in which the user has a wireless connection from a telephone to a nearby transmitter. It is termed cellular because the service area is divided into multiple cells. As the user moves from one cell area to another, the call is transferred to the local transmitter.
    

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Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution / Adam Burgess.

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Phones for Parkinson's : a new way to help us say goodbye to Parkinson's / Parkinson's UK.

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Monitor me.

Environmental ephemera. Box 1.

Cellular phones, public fears, and a culture of precaution / Adam Burgess.

Google : what could go wrong with Google speech-to-text?.

Phones for Parkinson's : a new way to help us say goodbye to Parkinson's / Parkinson's UK.