What is difference between a mobile phone and a telephone?

Answer 1

All mobile phones are telephones, but not all telephones are mobile phones.

A telephone is a device used to send and receive phone calls from one phone to another.

A mobile telephone is the same thing but is portable and works through a cellular phone network.

Answer 2

Traditionally a telephone means a land-line phone -- a phone that's connected to the system by wires. A cell phone connects to the system by radio frequency signals to and from antennas on towers.

Another way to look at it is that all cellphones are telephones, but not all telephones are cellphones.

Answer 3

Landline telephones are connected through a wire network. Cell phones do not use wire network for connectivity. Transmission: ... Cell phones transmit signals through radio waves

Answer 4

Phone is a short version of the word telephone, they both mean the same thing.

Answer 5

The difference is that a cell phone signal travels through the air bouncing off cell towers and telephone (land phones) travel through power lines, which are more stable than cell towers.

Answer 6

Typically a mobile phone uses cell towers and the old telephone uses just land wires.

Answer 7

These days, with smart phones, there isn't much besides: you cant download most software on phones, the screen is smaller, and you are always limited.

Answer 8

a telephone is a tele that works like a phone and everyone knows that