superphone

noun

superphone

noun

Etymology From super- + phone.

1

Informal A remarkably advanced telephone.

  • Other single-unit superphones are Figure-phone, which packs a calculator, clock and automatic redialer for about $270...1978 April, Popular Mechanics, volume 149, number 4:
  • A "superphone" for the deaf and deaf-blind, created by Ultratech of Madison, Wisconsin, can convert a typed message into sound...1981, Science Digest, volume 89:
4 more examples
  • The same superphones will monitor the security system in your home...1989, Austin H. Kiplinger, Knight A. Kiplinger, America in the global '90s: the shape of the future:
  • Not everyone owns a “superphone” with internet access like the Sony Ericsson P900...2005, William Charles Mann, Smart technology for aging, disability, and independence:
  • Standing around pushing buttons on a superphone creates quite an appetite. So I stopped at my favorite taqueria...2008 April, Mac Life, volume 2, number 4:
  • The device was a truly smart phone—some even said a superphone. Jobs argued that it had enough security to satisfy all but the most paranoid IT manager.2009, Alastair Sweeny, BlackBerry Planet:

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