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a supercomputer you mostly use to avoid eye contact and forget where you parked
means a handheld mobile phone that runs apps, connects to the internet, and does far more than make calls — essentially a pocket-sized computer with a touchscreen.
from A transparent compound of "smart" + "phone." "Smart" here borrows the sense it gained in mid-20th-century tech jargon — "capable of independent or computer-driven action," as in "smart bomb" — built on the old English "smart," which originally meant sharp or stinging (think "a smart blow") before drifting toward "clever." "Phone" is clipped from "telephone," itself from Greek "tēle" (far) + "phōnē" (voice, sound). The word "smartphone" itself is a late-20th-century coinage that took off as devices began merging phone and computer; it became everyday vocabulary in the late 2000s.
- more power
- Outguns the computers that landed Apollo 11
- check count
- Average person checks it around 144 times daily
- first one
- IBM's 1994 Simon predated the iPhone by 13 years
- phantom buzz
- Most people feel vibrations that never happened
- glass guts
- Gorilla Glass was invented decades before anyone needed it
iphone — apple's device released in 2007, over 2.3 billion sold
samsung galaxy — samsung's line launched 2010, second-largest smartphone maker globally
google pixel — google's phone line since 2015, known for computational photography