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 be
• 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 (mixtape), a 2016 mixtape by Noname
• Telefon (film), a 1977 spy film directed by Don Siegel
• Telephone (album), a 1984 live album by Ron Carter and Jim Hall

Other uses

• Telephone (sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• 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
• Telephone Road, a major street in Houston, Texas, USA

See also

• Phone (disambiguation)