superphone

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ phone.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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.