woty thought - smartphone

Fri Jan 7 22:49:54 UTC 2011

Seems like the term smartphone was recently generated as a generic term for ipod type phones.  I had to ask "is "Smarthphone" a brand name?  No.  Seems it's suddenly a generic term.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone.[1] Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME,[2] a smartphone usually allows the user to install and run more advanced applications. Smartphones run complete operating system software providing a platform for application developers.[3] Like feature phones, a smartphone can be considered as a Personal Pocket Computer with mobile phone functions, because these devices are mainly computers, although much smaller than a desktop computer. Additionally a Personal Pocket Computer is more personal than a desktop computer.
Growth in demand for advanced mobile devices boasting powerful processors, abundant memory, larger screens, and open operating systems has outpaced the rest of the mobile phone market for several years.[4] According to a study by ComScore, over 45.5 million people in the United States owned smartphones in 2010 and it is the fastest growing segment of the mobile phone market, which comprised 234 million subscribers in the United States.[5] Despite the large increase in smartphone sales in the last few years, smartphone shipments only make up 20% of total handset shipments, as of the first half of 2010.[6]

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:40:49 -0500
> From: wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Re: to switch gears
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> Poster: Jonathan Lighter
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> Speaking of what's idiomatic enough for OED, I was wondering about the idiom
> "have some work done" as a vague euphemism for having cosmetic surgery.
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> When somebody (usually a woman) says, "I think she's had some work done,"
> regardless of the verbal context, the meaning is unmistakable.
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> I don't see it in OED.
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> JL
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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
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> > Subject: Re: to switch gears
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> > The OED does have a definition for "switch gears". It's annexed from
> > Webster's 3rd New Internat. and embedded in a quotation.
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> > Shift, v
> > III. 12. e. To change (gear), move (a gear lever). Also intr., to
> > change from one gear into another; to shift up or down, to engage a
> > higher or a lower gear. Also fig.
> >
> > 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang., Shift gears, to
> > make a change from one method, tempo, or approach to another.
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> > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Victor Steinbok
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> > > Not in OED--the straight meaning is directly derivable, so no need for
> > > it, but the figurative meaning is not. It means "to change attitude,
> > > approach, direction [abruptly]; to make a different choice, preference"
> > >
> > > Dictionary.com/RH Unabridged is the only one I found to have a
> > definition:
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