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iPhone

British  
/ ˈaɪˌfəʊn /

noun

  1. a type of mobile phone which includes a music player and internet browser

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After years of refusing to embrace wearable fitness trackers, Pamela Paul discovered she’d already inadvertently succumbed—she had an iPhone and therefore a fitness app; its built-in ring was lying in wait.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He shot the new movie on an iPhone, for one thing, even as he questions the smartphone’s contribution to our easy disengagement with the world’s ills.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The power of iteration: “Products are only overnight successes in reverse. The iPod was not, the iPhone was not, the Watch was not.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Farrar asked in his note, after noting that it’s unclear what selling Globalstar would mean for the iPhone maker.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

Sohrab was standing there, holding my Vans in his right hand, looking at something on his iPhone with his left.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram