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  2. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    A Panasonic KX-TG2226B 2.4GHz cordless phone with answering machine. A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same building or within some short distance from the base station.

  3. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Previous telephones required the user to operate a separate switch to connect either the voice or the bell. With the new kind, the user was less likely to leave the phone "off the hook". In phones connected to magneto exchanges, the bell, induction coil, battery, and magneto were in a separate bell box called a "ringer box." In phones connected ...

  4. Handset - Wikipedia

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    A graphic symbol that designates a handset is used on cordless and mobile phones to specify placing or ending a telephone call. Usually a button with green upright (off-hook) handset icon is used for starting a call, and a red lying-down (on-hook) handset is used for ending a call. [1] Unicode provides the U+1F4DE 📞 TELEPHONE RECEIVER symbol.

  5. The 7 Best Cordless Phones That Combine Simplicity and ... - AOL

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    VG101-11 Cordless Phone. This is an excellent budget option that excels at the basics. Like our top overall pick, the model supports DECT 6.0. Also, VTech estimates that the range between the ...

  6. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human ...

  7. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Telephones that lacked dials and touch-tone pads were no longer made by the Bell System after 1978. [citation needed] 1919: AT&T conducts more than 4,000 measurements of people's heads to gauge the best dimensions of standard headsets so that callers' lips would be near the microphone when holding handsets up to their ears. [28]

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