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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.
A cordless telephone differs functionally from a mobile telephone in its limited range and by depending the base station on the subscriber premises. Current cordless telephone standards, such as PHS and DECT, have blurred the once clear-cut line between cordless and mobile telephones by implementing cell handoff (handover); various advanced features, such as data-transfer; and even, on a limited scale, international roaming. In specialized models, a commercial mobile network operator may maintain base stations and users subscribe to the service.
Unlike a corded telephone, a cordless telephone needs mains electricity (to power the base station). The cordless handset contains a rechargeable battery, which the base station re-charges when the handset rests in its cradle.[1]
cordlesstelephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network...
its most popular application is single-cell cordless phones connected to traditional analog telephone, primarily in home and small-office systems, though...
emergency telephone number is called. A cordlesstelephone or portable telephone consists of a base station unit and one or more portable cordless handsets...
The Microsoft Cordless Phone System (also known as PC Phone System MP-900) is a discontinued cordlesstelephone introduced by Microsoft in 1998 that featured...
the cordlesstelephone, the handset was usually wired to the base unit, typically by a flexible tinsel wire cord. The handset of a cordlesstelephone contains...
is in common usage, possibly because some cordless devices (e.g., cordlesstelephones) are also wireless. The term "wireless" generally refers to devices...
radio receivers, satellite television, broadcast television and cordlesstelephones. Somewhat less common methods of achieving wireless communications...
CT1 stands for Cordlesstelephone generation 1 and is an analog cordlesstelephone standard that was standardized by the European Conference of Postal...
Sweigert (1920–1999) is credited as the first inventor to patent the cordlesstelephone. Born in Akron, Ohio, Sweigert served five years in the US Army as...
Wireless telephone may refer to: Cordlesstelephone, a telephone in which the handset is portable and communicates with the body of the phone by radio...
development on a cordlesstelephone, using the 900 MHz band, and in 1991 introduced the world's first fully digital 900 MHz cordlesstelephone. In 2000, to...
Radio transmitters of all kinds, including the garage door opener, cordlesstelephone, cellular phone, wireless video sender, wireless microphone, and many...
500 kHz in the US, UK, Germany and Sweden. Many home-portable or cordlesstelephones, especially those that were designed in the 1980s, transmit low power...
applications. Cordless bluetooth headsets are available and often used with mobile telephones. Headsets are widely used for telephone-intensive jobs...
was designed in 1986 by Lindinger-Loewy. The BeoCom 1 is a model of cordlesstelephone designed by Henrik Sørig Thomsen. The handset is 159 mm (6¼ inches)...
say "Yeah, I'll be there" while eating an apple, and talking on a cordlesstelephone. In the animated TV series American Dad!, the song was used in the...
1980s, Uniden grew to become the world's largest manufacturer of cordlesstelephones in addition to television satellite equipment, mobile radios, advanced...
and mouthpiece. The same concept was later used for cellular telephone and cordlesstelephone models. To miniaturize the rotary dial sufficiently to fit...
pair gain multiplexers, telephone loop extenders, integrated services digital network (ISDN) terminals, digital cordlesstelephones and digital cell phones;...
"receiver". On a mobile telephone or other radiotelephone, the entire unit is a transceiver for both audio and radio. A cordlesstelephone uses an audio and...
switchboard (c. 1975) Early 1945 telephone exchange model N935 system featuring cordless operation Manual cord telephone exchange exhibited in Ainokura...