watchphone

watchphone

English

Etymology

watch +‎ phone

Noun

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: