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Smartphone vs Android - What's the difference?

smartphone | android |

As nouns the difference between smartphone and android

is that smartphone is a mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone while android is a robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male.

As an adjective android is

possessing human qualities.

As a proper noun Android is

a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google.

smartphone

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.

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    android

    English

    (wikipedia android)

    Alternative forms

    * androides (dated)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robot that is designed to look and act like a human (usually male)

    • Derived terms

    * droid

    Hypernyms

    * robot

    Hyponyms

    * gynoid, fembot

    See also

    * cyborg

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Possessing human qualities

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