Meanings
plural watchphones
- literatureA watch with telephone capabilities.
Elaborate Swiss watchphones peeked from their sleeves.
1989, Bruce Sterling, Islands in the net3 more examples
Products will run the gamut from digital assistants to Dick Tracy-style wireless watchphones.
1996, Michael Moynihan, The coming American renaissanceThe watchphone would have a detachable microphone and earpiece.
1997, Popular Science, volume 250, number 6, page 64Damien's watchphone beeps, and from it Heavitree's voice emerges:
2002, Don Sakers, Dance for the Ivory Madonna: a romance of psiberspace, page 16
Origin
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