1. hold the phone - Verb
2. hold the phone - Interjection
hold the phone
(slang, idiomatic) stop; wait; whoa.
Hold the phone! We've had this problem before, with the other machine.
hold the phone (third-person singular simple present holds the phone, present participle holding the phone, simple past and past participle held the phone)
To hold; to wait for someone at the other end of a telephone connection.
They asked me to hold the phone while they went to look up the answer.
Also I want to hold the phone without accidentally touching the screen. Source: Internet
Ear buds are 100 times more effective then using the phone next to your ear, even better is to just hold the phone 18 inches or so from you and use the speaker phone. Source: Internet
I suppose over time I will either change how I hold the phone in my hand, get used to shimmying my hand up the phone to reach the top, or get used to not one-handing my iPhone as often as I currently do. Source: Internet