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Mobile phone feature

capability, service or application that mobile phones offer to users

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6887196
Source-derived summary

A mobile phone feature is a capability, service, or application that a mobile phone offers to its users. With the advent of feature phones, mobile phones gained a wider range of features.

The common components found on all phones are:

A number of metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) integrated circuit (IC) chips.

A battery (typically a lithium-ion battery), providing the power source for the phone functions.

An input mechanism to allow the user to interact with the phone. The most common input mechanism is a keypad, but touch screens are also found in smartphones.

Basic 0758995183 to allow users to make calls and send text messages.

All GSM phones use a SIM card to allow an account to be swapped among devices. Some CDMA devices also have a similar card called a R-UIM.

Individual GSM, WCDMA, IDEN and some satellite phone devices are uniquely identified by an International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number.

All mobile phones are designed to work on cellular networks and contain a standard set of services that allow phones of different types and in different countries to communicate with each other.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mobile phone feature” is capability, service or application that mobile phones offer to users. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mobile, phone and feature, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 182-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Mobile, phone and feature is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “capability, service or application that mobile phones offer to users” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6887196. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Mobile phone feature” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.