Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cell phone that includes features of a PDA, such as applications for reading and sending e-mail, maintaining a calendar, and browsing the web.
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- noun A
mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than afeaturephone .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In fact, Jackson believes that the term smartphone is already redundant.
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In fact, Jackson believes that the term smartphone is already redundant.
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Here, just over a third have two phones, and over two-thirds of this third carry smartphones, although one explanation might be that the smartphone is a company-issued device, and the iPhone is for personal use.
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At that time, the word "smartphone" was largely equated with BlackBerrys, the standard bearer for the business class.
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With Colligan departure at Palm, it's ex-Apple vs Apple in smartphone battle
With Colligan departure at Palm, it's ex-Apple vs Apple in smartphone battle 2009
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PreviousWith Colligan departure at Palm, it's ex-Apple vs Apple in smartphone battle
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Nokia fighting to maintain smartphone dominance ...
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Manufacturer HTC, a Taiwanese company best known for theTouch smartphone, is actually building the device.
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Do your alarm clock or computer speakers spazz out a second or two before you get a call, or when your smartphone is checking messages?
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With Colligan departure at Palm, it's ex-Apple vs Apple in smartphone battle
ecbrenner commented on the word smartphone
A mobile phone with some computer applications (notably e-mail and Web browsing). The iPhone and BlackBerry are two popular units.
January 7, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word smartphone
My cordless home phone with no message service is so smart that after 4 rings it promptly ceases the ringy-dingy because it knows that I won't pick it up unless I recognize the caller-ID number.
January 7, 2009
kewpid commented on the word smartphone
My cordless phone has many buttons of which I don't know what they do.
January 7, 2009