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

Notifications Some models will send alerts from your smartphone directly to your Fitbit display. —Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026

Engendered by the ubiquity of stable and robust WiFi and the incredible power of the smartphone’s system-on-a-chip design, the smart everything era demonstrates the full transfer of the smartness imaginary. —Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026

Those changes will likely be greater this time, given the 15-year gap and the move to a digital census system; only about half of Indians have access to smartphones, requiring a huge logistical effort in which three million people will be enlisted in the count. —Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 2 Apr. 2026

Increasingly, a generation that grew up with smartphones, iPads and Netflix is propelling today’s biggest blockbusters. —ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026

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)