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How do cell phones work?

I don't think anyone knows the answer.
I don't think anyone knows how to make a cell phone.
Sure, there are people who know how to put the parts together.
Sure, there are also other people who know how to produce the processor inside it.
And yes, there are people who know how the plastic and metal parts are produced.
And there are even geeks like us who know how to do the programming, or even understand the complicated communication protocols used in a cell phone.
But i don't think anyone knows how to transform minerals, oil and chemicals into a working cell phone.
Although many people think they know how a cell phone works, they only undertstand at one certain level of abstraction.
So if nobody knows how to make a cell phone, how can they exist?
Only Aunt Hillary can understand...
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Gravatar Cell phones are awesome!!! My butt hurts! 3/17/2004 1:56 PM | Andy

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Gravatar My balls hurt!! Wait... I only have one!
3/17/2004 1:58 PM | Nelson

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Gravatar hey guys u know what, i have no idea how cell phones work!!!!! All i know how to do is talk on one.
3/23/2004 4:27 PM | Erica Owens

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Gravatar I personally dont kno much about cell phones...i could honestly care less, but u guys must have NO life if you go on this site and talk about how they work when none of you have a clue. I have to do a paper on this and you guys really wasted my time so why dont you go outside and play in the grass. :) 4/14/2004 11:13 AM | Brandee

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Gravatar Geeks ROCK!


Brandee, you are the loser with no life. You're obviously jealous of these people who actually CARE about the world and science and how things work. These people are questioning life, and what do you do? You sit at your computer desk like a lump, moaning and whining about how your precious time was wasted. You even go as far as to complain that it's their fault for wasting your time. Newsflash, Brandee: It was YOUR choice to come on this site. If you didn't want to waste time, why the hell did you write a response?

t 5/25/2004 6:38 PM | Genna

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Gravatar u ppl retarded 5/27/2004 6:46 PM | amy

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Gravatar shut up guys
10/24/2004 6:46 PM | ur ass

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Gravatar Mine bloody dosn't most of the time!, but I think they are basically full duplex radio transmitters which identify themselves to a local transmitter by means of an in built serial number. If the phone is picked up by the transmitter (ie you subscribe to the service provider operating out of the tower, and your phone operates on the frequencies broadcast by the tower) it will relay your call via land lines to the destination (either to another transmitter tower and thence to a cell phone, or to a land line phone). As you move between towers your signal is re-routed to the nearest one using an electronic handshake (sort of like passing the baton in a relay race). The tower(s) relaying your call define the cost of the call, and determine if you are roaming or not.
I think. 10/29/2004 6:57 PM | Qwerty

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Gravatar i have to do a research paper on cell phones.. matter of fact, i do know how it works..=D! 11/17/2004 5:55 AM | KITTY

# u guys are nerds

Gravatar whoever goes into these forums is a loser and needs to end their life. 12/2/2004 9:44 PM | l stylezz

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Gravatar ok this is sum crazy stuff. so imma leave now 12/5/2004 4:08 AM | none of yo business

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Gravatar all hail satan !! im for communism !! little woodland creatures will murder us all !! put them in cages !! marijuana ius bad, dont do drugs 1/12/2005 3:29 PM | Margo

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Gravatar brandee maybe we are doing a project on it so shut your pot hole you stuipd girrila looking thing
1/17/2005 5:43 PM | strawberry

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Gravatar brandee maybe we are doing a project on it so shut your pot hole you stuipd girrila looking thing
1/17/2005 5:43 PM | strawberry

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Gravatar Somebody plz tell me how a cell phone works. 1/22/2005 11:36 PM | anonymous

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Gravatar qwerty Explained the cell phone operation pretty good, didn't anybody read it.....

Johnny 1/23/2005 10:32 AM | JohnnyStar

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Gravatar I just wasted my time coming to this web site and iam at school
1/26/2005 6:20 PM | Brittany

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Gravatar You guys are all idiots. Go to HowStuffWorks.com/cell-phone.htm and you will find out how cell-phones work. 1/27/2005 11:14 PM | brandon

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Gravatar All my niggas holla back! iight 2/16/2005 12:14 AM | rude_gyal a.k.a bashment gyal...

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Gravatar o ya if u guys are wondering y i am on dis stupid site its becuz i unfortunatly my stupid teach said i have 2 do a paper on it! so jus thoght i would jus drop by zeen. 2/16/2005 12:19 AM | rude_gyal a.k.a bashment gyal...

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Gravatar You guys stink, I got no answers to my questions 2/18/2005 5:28 PM | Ben Dover

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Gravatar this site is so dumb umm to sit around and talk about how cell phones work thas dumb but i cant live without my cell phone so if this is ur thing get on with is 3/18/2005 12:42 AM | Kaity

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Gravatar this site is so dumb umm to sit around and talk about how cell phones work thas dumb but i cant live without my cell phone so if this is ur thing get on with is 3/18/2005 12:42 AM | Kaity

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Gravatar i mean it 3/18/2005 12:42 AM | kaity

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Gravatar i no the answer to your ? and only because my woodshop teacher made me do an essay on it well anyways a cell phone is really a 2 way radio that is made for international moble transmining a.k.a. (imt)well i would tell u the rest but i am in troubles so i gtg and i am 13 and go to santiago middle scholl in orange california 4/20/2005 5:04 AM | collin terrance woodward

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Gravatar i really dont know how cell phones work 4/26/2005 8:38 AM | princess

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