cellular radio

British  

noun

1. radio communication based on a network of transmitters each serving a small area known as a cell: used in personal communications systems in which the mobile receiver switches frequencies automatically as it passes from one cell to another

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cellular radio

The little gold-plated circuits — which identify you as a subscriber on a particular carrier — plug into phones, tablets, and basically anything else with a cellular radio.

From The Verge ● Oct. 16, 2014

Short for mobile phone; a portable telephone that works by means of a cellular radio system.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2012

According to electrical engineers, when the electronic device starts, electric current passes through every part of the gadget, including GPS, Wi-Fi, cellular radio and microprocessor.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2011

This is certainly doable: Apple sells the iPod Touch, which is essentially an iPhone without a cellular radio, for $229.

From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2011

Sales of cellular radio telephones -- which had been growing at a sizzling 20% to 70% a year for the past decade -- were temporarily put on hold.

From Time Magazine Archive