Terms for Mobile Phones in other languages

In the US the phones are called cell phones or even simply cells.

In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, mobile phones are often called simply mobiles.

In Germany, they are called Handys, in Switzerland Natel, and in Italy Telefonino (meaning small phone).

In Sweden, they are sometimes called nalle, or teddy bear translated to English, originally referring to the term yuppie nalle since in the beginning only rich yuppies could afford them and they showed them off in a way that looked as they where carrying a yuppie teddy bear, nowadays only nalle is used representing that people always carry them around and feel insecure if they misplace them, like a kid missing his/her teddy bear.

In Russia, they are often called trubka, or tube in Russian, because the receiver part of the stationary phones was called telephone tube and the mobile phone consists of receiver alone, in some sense.

In many Asian countries they are called hand phones.