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A telephone is a telecommunication device which is used to transmit and receive sound simultaneously.

Telephone may also refer to:

Telecommunications

• AT&T, sometimes called "Telephone" due to its U.S. ticker symbol "T" on the New York Stock Exchange
• Camera phone, a mobile phone that is also able to capture either still photographs or video
• Cordless telephone, a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves to its base station
• Mobile phone, a wireless telecommunications device used for phone and data calls over a cellular network
• Smartphone, a mobile phone and a handheld personal computer.
• Radiotelephone or radiophone, a telephone that allows two or more people to talk via radio, often referring to an older radio telephone system that predated modern mobile (cellular) phones
• Softphone, a software program for making telephone calls over the Internet using computers
• Telephone (application), a softphone telecommunication app for Mac OS X, by Alexei Kuznetsov
• Tin can telephone, a type of voice-transmitting device usually made from two tin cans and string or wire
• Videophone, telephones with video displays, which enable their users to see each other as well in real time

Music

• Téléphone, a French rock band formed in 1976

Other uses

• Telephone (game), also known as Chinese whispers
• Telephone game (game theory), a concept in game theory
• Telephone (sternwheeler), a steamboat in Oregon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
• Telephone, Texas, an unincorporated community in Fannin County, Texas
• Telephone Road, a major street in Houston, Texas, USA

See also

• Phone (disambiguation)
• The Telephone (disambiguation)
• Telefone (disambiguation)
• Telefon (disambiguation)