iPhone

Definitions

1. A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.
2. Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.”

“This concept puts the curve back on the iPhone 5 with a silhouette that's reminiscent of a banana phone.”

“Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have⟳ a full (and lengthy) preview guide⟳ on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get⟳ the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.”

““This is before everyone had [geographic information system] mapping, before iPads, iPhones, laptops, Google,” he says. “This is doing research⟳ way back with a hammer⟳ and a chisel.””

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