CG: n
CT: Modern high-end mobile phones combine the functionality of a pocket-sized communication device with PC-like capabilities, resulting in what are generally referred to as smartphones. These integrate such diverse functionality as voice communication, audio and video playback, web browsing, short-message and email communication, media downloads, gaming and more. The rich functionality increases the pressure on battery lifetime, and deepens the need for effective energy management.
S: Usenix – https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix10/tech/full_papers/Carroll.pdf (last access: 17 December 2020)
N: 1. – smart (adj): Late Old English smeart “painful, severe, stinging; causing a sharp pain,” related to smeortan. Meaning “executed with force and vigor” is from c. 1300. Meaning “quick, active, clever” is attested from c. 1300, from the notion of “cutting” wit, words, etc., or else “keen in bargaining.” Meaning “trim in attire” first attested 1718, “ascending from the kitchen to the drawing-room c. 1880.”
In reference to devices, the sense of “behaving as though guided by intelligence” (as in smart bomb) first attested 1972. Smarts “good sense, intelligence,” is first recorded 1968 (Middle English had ingeny “intellectual capacity, cleverness.” Smart cookie is from 1948.
– phone (n): by 1878, colloquial shortening of telephone (n), “generally applied to the receiver, but sometimes to the whole apparatus”. From Latin phōnē “sound, voice.”
2. A smartphone is a mobile phone that includes advanced functionality beyond making phone calls and sending text messages. Most smartphones have the capability to display photos, play videos, check and send e-mail, and surf the Web.
3. The smartphone’s first distinguishing feature from other mobile phones is its mobile operating system (OS), such as Android and iOS. Along with the OS, a smartphone typically has high-speed Internet access and a built-in browser for displaying Web pages. On a smartphone, the Web is accessed by 4G or 3G data networks, Wi-Fi support, mobile broadband, NFC or Bluetooth.
It also functions as a portable digital media player for making and playing music playlists and uploading photos and videos on a single interface.
4. Although there are lots of advantages we can also find some issues when using smartphones. One of the most common phenomenon is screen addiction that has a negative pychological impact. Also, there’s nomophonia where the person is afraid of being out of mobile or cell phone contact.
5. Cultural Interrelation: It may be worth mentioning the 2019 romantic comedy film Jexi where a self-aware smartphone with a female-voiced virtual assistant becomes emotionally attached to its owner.
S: 1. OED – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=smart; https://www.etymonline.com/word/telephone; https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=phone (last access: 17 December 2020). 2. TT – https://techterms.com/definition/smartphone (last access: 17 December 2020). 3. Lenovo – https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/faqs/pc-life-faqs/what-is-a-smartphone/ (last access: 17 December 2020). 4. TechWalla – https://www.techwalla.com/articles/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-smartphones (last access: 17 December 2020). 5. YT – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txSOaY-je-o (last access: 17 December 2020).
SYN: multifunction cell phone, multifunction cellular phone, smart phone, smart telephone, multi-function cellular phone, multi-function cell phone, intelligent telephone, intelligent phone.
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=tel%C3%A9fono+inteligente&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 17 December 2020)
CR: intelligent system, Internet, roaming, smartwatch, tablet, Wi-Fi.
