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smartphone

UK/ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/US/ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/
nounA2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: smartphones

A smartphone is a pocket phone that is really a small computer. Use a smartphone.

It killed the camera, the map, the diary and the torch as separate objects within about a decade. A smartphone is checked around a hundred times a day by an average user.

Sage Ross · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of smartphone

  1. 1nounsmartphoneA pocket phone that is really a small computer with a touch screen.A2

    “The smartphone replaced six things he used to carry.”

smartphone is a device.

Where it comes from

Smart plus phone; the word appears in the mid-1990s, well before the devices became common.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *(s)merd-

  2. English, today

    smartphone

From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Technology & Internet

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smartphone in the wild

  • A smartphone is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone (feature phone) with advanced computing capabilities.

    Smartphone

  • Examples of smartphone sensors include accelerometers, barometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers; they can be used by both pre-installed and third-party software to enhance functionality.

    Smartphone

  • Windows Mobile is a discontinued mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants (PDA).

    Windows Mobile

  • Founded in 2004, its major product lines include smartphones, smart devices, audio devices, power banks, and other electronic products.

    Oppo

  • The company is also in the top three smartphone brands by sales in 20 regional markets, competing with major smartphone manufacturers like Samsung and Xiaomi.

    Oppo

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.