superphone

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

super- +‎ phone

Noun[edit]

superphone (plural superphones)

  1. (informal) A remarkably advanced telephone.
    • 1978 April, Popular Mechanics, volume 149, number 4:
      Other single-unit superphones are Figure-phone, which packs a calculator, clock and automatic redialer for about $270...
    • 1981, Science Digest, volume 89:
      A "superphone" for the deaf and deaf-blind, created by Ultratech of Madison, Wisconsin, can convert a typed message into sound...
    • 1989, Austin H. Kiplinger, Knight A. Kiplinger, America in the global '90s: the shape of the future:
      The same superphones will monitor the security system in your home...
    • 2005, William Charles Mann, Smart technology for aging, disability, and independence:
      Not everyone owns a “superphone” with internet access like the Sony Ericsson P900...
    • 2008 April, Mac Life, volume 2, number 4:
      Standing around pushing buttons on a superphone creates quite an appetite. So I stopped at my favorite taqueria...
    • 2009, Alastair Sweeny, BlackBerry Planet:
      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.
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