smartphone
Pluralsmartphones
- 1A mobile phone with the processing power and operating system to run apps, browse the web, and handle email, unlike a more basic feature phone.
Like having a phone, camera, and computer all combined into one handheld device.
He unlocked his smartphone and opened the navigation app.
Modern smartphones can store thousands of photos, songs, and documents.
Note
A compound of smart and phone from the mid-1990s, and a relative term from the start: what makes a phone smart is measured against the featurephone, the simpler handset. In engineering and telecommunications usage the dividing line is computing capacity (a general-purpose operating system and third-party applications), not the ability to make calls. It is written solid, as one word; its counterpart appears both as featurephone and feature phone.
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Origin
Formed from "smart" plus "phone," with its first use in the mid-1990s.