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- noun Plural form of
smartphone .
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Examples
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The number interested in smartphones is pretty low, but I suspect that they have an image of being foreign market-designed phones that feature few of the essential Japanese functions such as emoji, One-seg television, and smartcards.
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More recently, it has turned up in smartphones, e-readers and tablet computers like Apple's iPad.
SanDisk Poised for Flash Dance Martin Peers 2010
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The situation is starkly different when the model = “user-owned” device + “company-paid” services, which seems to be a more prevalent model in smartphones ….
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Tests were conducted on laptop cards and certain smartphones, including the iPhone.
AT&T faster than Verizon, Sprint in 3G wireless performance test 2010
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And it just unwrapped Kin smartphones, aimed at the young social-networking crowd.
Tech CEOs try to predict who'll win tomorrow's tech race 2010
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The 61% volume growth Nokia registered in smartphones was behind global smartphone volume growth of 78%, according to Strategy Analytics.
Nokia Optimism? Tough Call Hester Plumridge 2010
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And Microsoft Corp. sued Motorola last month, accusing it of violating Microsoft's patents in smartphones using Android.
ITC Staff Sides With Nokia in Apple Patent Dispute Shara Tibken 2010
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Though it was innovative when Apple introduced the iPhone, touch screens have now become common in smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices, raising the stakes in ownership of the technology.
Apple Sues Motorola Over Smartphone Patents Shayndi Raice 2010
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But moving to 22-nanometer production could also help the company produce chips with lower power consumption to better compete in smartphones — where designs from ARM Holdings PLC dominate — as well as a newer market Apple Inc. has created with the ARM-powered iPad.
Intel to Invest $6 Billion in Plants Don Clark 2010
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The opening for smartphones is being created by the fact that wired or Wi-Fi network connections are now becoming ubiquitous on audio-visual devices of all sorts.
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