watchphone

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

watch +‎ phone

Noun[edit]

watchphone (plural watchphones)

  1. (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:
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