smartphone
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Origin of smartphone
First recorded in 1995–2000
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“It’s holding back PC builds and smartphone builds. Cloud customers are paying premiums,” and presumably not to stash memory components in warehouses, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Whether buying a chilled coconut at the beach or paying rent, Brazil's free PIX system has become the dominant way of making payments in Latin America's largest economy, with just a smartphone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
With a packet of biscuits in one hand and her smartphone in the other in the biscuits sucrées aisle of her local Hyper U supermarket west of Paris, Nathalie sees red.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
OpenAI made the io acquisition—revealing its intention to wean consumers off smartphone screens—a year after announcing a partnership with Apple to integrate ChatGPT into some parts of the iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Like the film over a new smartphone, the blanket of red light peels off her.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
"A new era of AI agent smartphones begins," Nubia said, sharing images of the handsets online.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
YouTube’s audience has shifted from smartphones to TVs, on which many U.S. consumers watch YouTube videos with their families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The JV will undertake original equipment manufacturer business of electronic devices including smartphones, the analysts note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Those insights could help transform solid-state batteries from a promising concept into a practical technology for future smartphones, electric vehicles, and other electronic devices.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Nathan thought about Weslee and Steven and how they would hang out at lunch playing the latest video games on their smartphones.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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