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Telephone vs Superphone - What's the difference?

telephone | superphone |

As nouns the difference between telephone and superphone

is that telephone is while superphone is (informal) a remarkably advanced telephone.

telephone

English

(wikipedia telephone)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).
  • (US) Chinese whispers.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2013
    • , date=October 27 , author=Erik Adams , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “The PTA Disbands” , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping “purple monkey dishwasher” into the chain. }}

    Synonyms

    * blower, phone, farspeaker, Ameche (slang), dog and bone (slang), horn (informal) * See also

    Derived terms

    * mobile telephone * public telephone * telephone book * telephone box * telephone call * telephone conference * telephone tag * telephonic * telephony

    Verb

    (telephon)
  • To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone ??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}

    Synonyms

    * call, drop a line, phone, ring * See also

    superphone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) A remarkably advanced telephone.
  • * 1978 , Popular Mechanics (volume 149, number 4, April 1978)
    • Other single-unit superphones are Figure-phone, which packs a calculator, clock and automatic redialer for about $270...
  • * 1981 , Science Digest (volume 89)
    • A "superphone" for the deaf and deaf-blind, created by Ultratech of Madison, Wisconsin, can convert a typed message into sound...
  • * 1989 , Austin H. Kiplinger, Knight A. Kiplinger, America in the global '90s: the shape of the future
    • The same superphones will monitor the security system in your home...
  • * 2005 , William Charles Mann, Smart technology for aging, disability, and independence
    • Not everyone owns a “superphone” with internet access like the Sony Ericsson P900...
  • * 2008 , Mac Life (volume 2, number 4, April 2008)
    • Standing around pushing buttons on a superphone creates quite an appetite. So I stopped at my favorite taqueria...
  • * 2009 , Alastair Sweeny, BlackBerry Planet
    • The device was a truly smart phone—some even said a superphone . Jobs argued that it had enough security to satisfy all but the most paranoid IT manager.