watchphone

English

Etymology

From 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: