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by yaowenjiaozi 3540 days ago
"Handphone" is from 手提电话, meaning hand-held telephone.
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Also interesting to me in this area was the emergence of the so-called IP卡 ("IP card") referring to pre-paid long distance telephone cards sold within mainland China. These were big business until the mid to late noughties.