The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word VOICEMAIL
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result VOICEMAIL
- Message’s tenor we may hear described
- System of storing messages I love, I am about to receive a hundred
- Message-storing system failing, storing nothing? Start to make trouble
- Edit a movie clip, losing Gump’s last message
- Description of ‘baritone’ heard in phone message
- Possibly active man said to get mobile phone feature?
- An archive of oral ejaculation?
- It’s immoral, daily paper retaining old phone messages
- Message in very odd parts of zodiac wanting flipping Everyman to irritate
- Definition of baritoneone may check on phone?
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The straight part
We know that "mobile phone feature" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case mobile phone feature = voicemail.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does VOICEMAIL mean?
VOICEMAIL noun- A computerized interactive system for storing, processing and reproducing verbal messages left through a conventional telephone network.
- (by extension) An individual message on such a system.