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A cell phone is an electronic gadget utilized for mobile tele-communications (text messaging, mobile telephone or data transmission) over a cellular system of specific base stations called as cell sites. Cell phones are different from cordless phones, which just proffer telephone service in limited range, example in a home or office, through a permanent line as well as a base station possessed by the subscriber plus also from the radio telephones and satellite phones. As opposed to radio telephone, a cell phone proffers full duplex communication, mechanizes calling to as well as paging from public land mobile network, and handoff in a phone call while the user moves from one cell to another.

Most present cell phones link to cellular network including switching points as well as base stations (cell sites) possessed by cell phone network operator. Besides the standard voice function, recent mobile phones might support a lot of extra services and accessories for example: email, SMS for text messaging, packet switching for access to Internet, Bluetooth, gaming, infrared, camera with the video recorder as well as MMS for receiving and sending video and photos, GPS, MP3 player as well as radio.

The International Telecommunication Union anticipated that mobile cellular subscriptions universal would reach about 4.6 billion by end of 2009. Cell phones have gained improved and enhanced significance in sector of Information and communication technologies for growth in the 2000’s and has efficiently started to arrive at the bottom of economic pyramid.