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Telecommunications device
A telephone, commonly shortened to phone, is a telecommunications device that enables 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 voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. The term is derived from Ancient Greek: τῆλε, romanized: tēle, lit. 'far' and φωνή, together meaning distant voice. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: TelephoneA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Use of and Retention on Video, Telephone, and In-Person Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 PandemicInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: CellThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Traffic model and performance analysis for cellular mobile radio telephone systems with prioritized and nonprioritized handoff proceduresCited 1,177 times
- Go sideways: Mobile VoIPA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Telephone callA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A telecommunication device which converts data or sounds (usually speech) into electrical signals which are then transmitted to enable two or more people to communicate with each other over a distance; now usually a device having a dial or keypad with numerals for entering a number, etc., to connect with a person, and means (such as a sound or vibration) for alerting one to an incoming call or transmission; also, the handset or receiver of such a device.
Noun Short for telephone call (“a connection established over a telephone network; a conversation held by the parties on this connection”).
Noun A means of communicating information from one person to another or others.
Noun Now chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: a simple communication device which converts sounds (usually speech) into mechanical vibrations along a string, wire, etc.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Traffic model and performance analysis for cellular mobile radio telephone systems with prioritized and nonprioritized handoff procedures
Comparing Telephone and Face-to-Face Qualitative Interviewing: a Research Note
Telephone Call Centers: Tutorial, Review, and Research Prospects
Is there a bias against telephone interviews in qualitative research?
Behavior Change Interventions Delivered by Mobile Telephone Short-Message Service
The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: A Field Experiment
Driven to Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone
Public perceptions, anxiety, and behaviour change in relation to the swine flu outbreak: cross sectional telephone survey
🆕 Influential since 2022
Use of and Retention on Video, Telephone, and In-Person Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Application of the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability to assess a telephone-facilitated health coaching intervention for the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes
Cellular Telephone Use and the Risk of Brain Tumors: Update of the UK Million Women Study
Comparison of Telephone and Video Telehealth Consultations: Systematic Review
A Randomized Trial of Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Treatment in the Lung Cancer Screening Setting
📚 Books worth reading
CellStephen King · 2006
Blue bookInternational Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee. Plenary Assembly · 1900- 📕TelecommunicationsUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1988
VoxNicholson Baker · 1992
The Hacker CrackdownBruce Sterling · 1992
Smart callingArt Sobczak · 2010
A history of engineering and science in the Bell systemAT & T Bell Laboratories. Technical Publication Dept. · 1975
Call WaitingRobert Lawrence Stine · 1994
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