featurephone
n.— «It’s going to be narked at having to change its embedded (and very good) featurephone platform, and also possibly ditch its UIQ smartphone platform. I wonder if S-E is also going to have a good reason to be on Voda’s “exception” list…. although maybe it’s got a Linux card up its sleeve/.» —“Vodfone’s OS Strategy: Impact To Handset Makers” by Dean Bubley SeekingAlpha Nov. 7, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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