watchphone
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watchphone (plural watchphones)
- (chiefly science fiction) A watch with telephone capabilities.
- 1989, Bruce Sterling, Islands in the net:
- Elaborate Swiss watchphones peeked from their sleeves.
- 1996, Michael Moynihan, The coming American renaissance:
- Products will run the gamut from digital assistants to Dick Tracy-style wireless watchphones.
- 1997, Popular Science, volume 250, number 6, page 64:
- The watchphone would have a detachable microphone and earpiece.
- 2002, Don Sakers, Dance for the Ivory Madonna: a romance of psiberspace, page 16:
- Damien's watchphone beeps, and from it Heavitree's voice emerges: