Googlephone

English

Etymology

From Google +‎ phone.

Noun

Googlephone (plural Googlephones)

1. (informal) Any mobile phone that runs the Android operating system.
   • 2008, John Ross, The Book of Wireless, page 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.

   • 2008, Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom, page 243:

     Will MySpace do a deal with Google to put social networking and music inside the new GooglePhone?

   • 2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 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

• Russian: гуглофо́н (guglofón)