smartphone

See also: Smartphone and smart phone

English

Samsung smartphones (frontside)

Samsung smartphones (backside)

Etymology

smart +‎ phone, first usage in the mid-1990s

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

smartphone (plural smartphones)

1. A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

   Hypernym: mobile phone

   Hyponym: iPhone

Derived terms

• modular smartphone
• smartphone zombie

 

Translations

electronic handheld device

• Afrikaans: slimfoon
• Arabic: هَاتِف ذَكِيّ‎ (ar) m (hātif ḏakiyy), سِمَارْت فُون‎ m (simārt fūn)
• Armenian: սմարթֆոն (smartʿfon)
• Bashkir: смартфон (smartfon)
• Belarusian: смартфо́н m (smartfón)
• Bengali: স্মার্টফোন (śãrṭophōn)
• Bulgarian: сма́ртфон m (smártfon)
• Catalan: telèfon intel·ligent
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 智能手機／智能手机 (zi³ nang⁴ sau² gei¹)

  Mandarin: 智能手機／智能手机 (zh) (zhìnéng shǒujī) (mainland China), 智慧型手機／智慧型手机 (zh) (zhìhuìxíng shǒujī) (Taiwan)

  Min Nan: 智慧型手機／智慧型手机 (tì-hūi-hêng chhiú-ki)

• Cornish: fon konnyk m, klapkodh gonnyk f
• Czech: chytrý telefon m, smartphone (cs) m
• Danish: smartphone (da) c
• Dutch: smartphone (nl) m
• Esperanto: saĝtelefono, retpoŝtelefono, smartfono, poŝtelefono (eo)
• Estonian: nutitelefon, nutifon, taibutelefon
• Faroese: snildfon f
• Finnish: älypuhelin (fi)
• French: smartphone (fr) m, ordiphone (fr) m, supertéléphone m, téléphone intelligent (fr) m
• Galician: teléfono intelixente (gl) m
• Georgian: სმარტფონი (smarṭponi)
• German: Smartphone (de) n
• Greek: σμάρτφον (el) n (smártfon)
• Hebrew: סמארטפון‎ (he) m (smártfon), טלפון חכם‎ (he) m (télefon khakhám)
• Hindi: स्मार्टफ़ोन m (smārṭfon), स्मार्टफोन m (smārṭphon)
• Hungarian: okostelefon (hu), smartphone (hu)
• Icelandic: snjallsími (is) m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: telepon cerdas, telepon pintar
• Irish: fón cliste m
• Italian: smartphone (it) m
• Japanese: スマートフォン (ja) (sumātofon), スマートホン (ja) (sumātohon), スマホ (ja) (sumaho)
• Kazakh: смартфон (smartfon)
• Khmer: ស្មាតហ្វូន (smaatfoun)
• Korean: 스마트폰 (ko) (seumateupon), 스마폰 (seumapon)
• Kyrgyz: смартфон (smartfon)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: viedtālrunis m
• Lithuanian: išmanusis telefonas m
• Malay: telefon pintar (ms) (Malaysia), telefon bijak (ms) (Singapore)
• Manx: çhellvane aghtal m
• Maori: waea atamai
• Mongolian: смартфон (smartfon), ухаалаг утас (uxaalag utas), ухаалаг гар утас (uxaalag gar utas)
• Nepali: स्मार्टफोन (smārṭphon)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: smarttelefon m

  Nynorsk: smarttelefon m

• Persian: تلفن هوشمند‎ (telefon-e hušmand), سمارت فون‎ (semârt fown), اسمارت فون‎ (esmârt fown)
• Polish: smartfon (pl) m
• Portuguese: smartphone (pt) m
• Romanian: smartphone
• Russian: смартфо́н (ru) m (smartfón)
• Scottish Gaelic: fòn tapaidh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: паметни телефон m, смартфон m

  Roman: pametni telefon m, smartfon m

• Slovak: smartfón m, smartphone m, inteligentný telefón m, chytrý telefón m
• Slovene: pametni telefon m
• Spanish: teléfono inteligente m
• Swahili: simu janja
• Swedish: smarttelefon (sv) c, smart telefon (sv) c, smartphone (sv) c, smartmobil (sv) c, smart mobil c, pekmobil (sv) c
• Tamil: நுண்ணறி பேசி (nuṇṇaṟi pēci)
• Tatar: смартфон (smartfon)
• Thai: สมาร์ตโฟน (sà-máat-foon)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: akıllı telefon (tr)
• Ukrainian: смартфо́н (uk) m (smartfón)
• Urdu: سمارٹ فون‎ m (smārṭ fon), ذکی محمول‎ (zakī mahmūl)
• Uzbek: smartfon
• Vietnamese: điện thoại thông minh (電話聰明), điện thoại tinh khôn, phôn khôn (informal), smát-phôn
• Walloon: sûtifone (wa) m
• Welsh: ffôn clyfar (cy) m
• West Frisian: snoadfoan

Further reading

• smartphone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Smartphones on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmɑrt.foːn/, [ˈsmɑɹt.foːn], [ˈsmɑɹt.foʊ̯n]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: smart‧phone

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone

Related terms

• smombie

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaʁt.fɔn/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone

   Synonyms: ordiphone, supertéléphone, téléphone intelligent

Italian

Quattro smartphone — Four smartphones

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzmart.fon/, /ˈzmart.fɔn/
• Rhymes: -artfon, -artfɔn
• Hyphenation: smàrt‧phone

Noun

smartphone m (invariable)

1. (mobile telephony) smartphone

   Da quando hai uno smartphone? ― Since when have you had a smartphone?

Further reading

• smartphone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfõ.ni], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaht͡ʃˈfõ.ni], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmah.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaɾt͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaɾ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaɾ.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaɾt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/, /ˌsmaɾ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaχt͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaχ.t͡ʃiˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaʁt͡ʃˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaχt͡ʃˈfõ.ni], /ˌsmaʁ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni/ [ˌsmaχ.t͡ʃiˈfõ.ni]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɻt͡ʃˈfo(w)n/ [ˌsmaɻt͡ʃˈfo(ʊ̯)n], /ˌsmaɻt͡ʃˈfo.ne/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfo(w)n/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfo(w)n/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfown/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌsmaɾˈtfon/, /ˌsmaɾˈtfɔ.nɨ/

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones)

1. smartphone (mobile phone with greater computing capacity)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English smartphone.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smaɾdˈfon/ [zmaɾð̞ˈfõn], /esmaɾdˈfon/ [ez.maɾð̞ˈfõn]
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

smartphone m (plural smartphones or smartphone)

1. smartphone

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.