"Handy" is arguably not a loan-word since "hand" is German. And it kind of makes sense for it to mean mobile phone since it's a phone you carry around in your h

"Handy" is arguably not a loan-word since "hand" is German. And it kind of makes sense for it to mean mobile phone since it's a phone you carry around in your hand. "Handphone" is used to refer to mobile phones in parts of Asia as well. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handphone https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handphone