Terms in other languages

In many Asian countries they are called hand phones.
In Andorra, they are called mòbils.
In Australia, they are called mobiles.
In Belgium, they are called GSMs (Global System for Mobile communications).
In Brazil, they are called celulares (singular form celular).
In Canada, they are called cell phones or cells.
In Mainland China, they are called "show ji" (hand machine) in Mandarin
In Czech Republic, they are called mobilní telefony or simply mobily.
In Denmark, the device is called a mobiltelefon or a mobil.
Users of Esperanto usually talk about poŝtelefonoj ("pocket phones", pronounced poshtelefonoy).
In Finland, they are called matkapuhelimet (literally travel-phones, singular form matkapuhelin) or kännykät (singular form kännykkä, very close in meaning to the German Handy), this Finnish word actually trademarked by Nokia in 1987 but fallen into generic use and would probably not be upheld any more if contested in a court of law.
In France, they are called portable (literally portable).
In Germany, they are called Handys.
In Hong Kong, they are called sau (hand) kei (machine), in Cantonese.
In Hungary, they are called mobiltelefon or simply mobil.
In Iceland, they are Called Farsími (Official for all mobile phone systems), Gemsi (means young sheep, referring to GSM), GSM-sími (For phones using the GSM System), or NMT-sími (For phones using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-system).
In India, they are called cell phone and mobile or just cell. Most cell phones in India are GSM but there is also CDMA phones operated by Tata Group and Reliance Infocomm.
In Indonesia, they are called Ponsel (telepon selular, cellular phones), or HP (shortened from Hand Phone, but pronounced ha-pe, not like HP in English)
In Ireland they are called mobile short for mobile phone, however in irish the states offical language, they are called Fón Póca So-Gluiste Literly meaning //phone-pocket-that-moves//
In Israel, they are called /pelefon/ (literally wonder-phone), as derived from the first such operator, or /najad/ (portable). But in formal hebrew they are called /telefon selolari/(cellular phone).
In Italy Telefonino (meaning small phone), or Cellulare (short form for Telefono cellulare).
In Japan Keitai.
In the Netherlands mobieltjes.
In Malaysia and Singapore, they are commonly called handphones.
In New Zealand, they are called mobiles.
In Norway, the device is called a mobil or mobiltelefon.
In the Philippines, they are called cellphones.
In Puerto Rico, they are called cellulares.
In Poland, they are called komórki (singular form komórka) or telefon komórkowy, meaning cells/cellular phone.
In Portugal, they are called telemóveis (singular form telemóvel).
In Romania, they are called telefon mobil (pl. telefoane mobile), but the short form is more common: mobil (mobile)
In Russia, they are called mobilny telefon (= mobile phone), or mobilnik for short. Older names are sotovy telefon (= cell phone) and trubka (= handset).
In Somalia, they are called telefoonka gacanta (literally "hand's phone").
In South Africa, they are called cellphones.
In Spain, they are called móviles in Spanish and mòbils in Catalan.
In Sweden, they are called mobiltelefon or 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 child missing their teddy bear.
In Switzerland, they are called Natel.
In Thailand, they are called Meu Teu.
In the UK, they are called mobiles.
In the U.S., they are called cell phones or even simply cells.