smart telephone

plural smart telephones

1. Synonym of smartphone.

   Mr. [Richard] Sulpizio said Qualcomm is betting the computation will be done in the "smart" telephones themselves, rather than centrally in the wireless network.

   2000 January 27, David Bank, “Qualcomm to Buy Snaptrack For About $1 Billion in Stock”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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   Charges will be for employee severance, facility downsizing and an inventory writedown of discontinued products, including smart telephones and caller-ID devices.

   1998 April 24, Dow Jones Newswires, “InteliData Plans to Take Charge, Significantly Reduce Work Force”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Ballmer sees a future with the personal computer at the center, running applications used by other computers, television sets, and other devices such as smart telephones and stand-alone Web browsers.

   1999 June 12, Jay Greene, “[Steve] Ballmer: PC Era Still Has Some Life”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, W.A.: The Seattle Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2026

   The fund [New Star Hidden Value] also bought shares in the initial public offering of DAT Group, a software company that [Jamie] Allsopp said would benefit from the arrival of smart telephones.

   2005 February 1, Barbara Wall, “Global Funds: On the prowl for takeover candidates”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023

   I would be very confident in saying, in less than five years, there will be billions of tablets in the world. Furthermore, I think there will be more billions, maybe twice as many, of what we call smart telephones.

   2012 April 26, Jennifer Preston, quoting Rupert Murdoch, “Rupert Murdoch on the Future of News”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2012

   Synonyms: smartphone