smartphone

noun

smart·​phone ˈsmärt-ˌfōn 

variants or less commonly smart phone

plural smartphones also smart phones

: a cell phone that includes additional software functions (such as email or an Internet browser)

Examples of smartphone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Photograph: Juan Maria Coy Vergara Between September and January, six Google Pixel smartphones hitched free rides on four New York City subway cars. —Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2025

The Aria Gen 2 represent the latest step by Meta in its efforts to build out smart glasses into the next major computing platform after the smartphone. —Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025

On that note, the route-planning function in Porsche’s smartphone app is also very good, quickly calculating where to stop for a battery top-up on long journeys. —Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025

Some of today's most popular smartphones have almost reached the point of anti-design—flat, unremarkable bodies that are intended to be covered up with a case. —Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 24 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1996, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for smartphone

• alone
• atone
• backbone
• bemoan
• bluestone
• breastbone
• brownstone
• capstone
• cheekbone
• condone
• curbstone
• cyclone

Kids Definition

smartphone

noun

smart·​phone ˈsmärt-ˌfōn 

: a cell phone that includes additional functions (as email or an Internet browser)