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Googlephone
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English
Etymology
From en Google phone.
Noun
en informal Any mobile phone that runs the Android operating system.
en 2008 John Ross The Book of Wireless 258 It will be at least a year or two before Android-based smartphones (Googlephones?) reach any real-world consumers, but when they do, Google will probably offer serious competition to Microsoft, Symbian, and the others.
en 2008 Matthew Fraser; Soumitra Dutta Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom 243 Will MySpace do a deal with Google to put social networking and music inside the new GooglePhone?
en 2011 Charles Wankel Educating Educators with Social Media 91 Among them are the emergence of 3D browsing and the merging of virtual worlds with reality; the use of smartphones and Googlephones; standardized web connectivity in new televisions with 3D technology; spread of e-readers;
Descendants
ru гуглофо́н
en Google Mobile phones