handset
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He gets just over a week to settle in, with Apple holding its annual iPhone event on September 9, where it is expected to unveil its first foldable handset.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Although there’s caution around Qualcomm’s handset revenue given cyclical weakness in the smartphone market, Acree said those concerns should be offset by gains in its other businesses, including automotive and technology licensing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Nokia sold its handset business to Microsoft in 2014, and still licenses the name to a phone maker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
But what was once a small memorial is now just the base of an old rotary phone without the handset.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
I yanked on a pair of sandals, sprinted the fifty yards to the communications tent, and grabbed the handset as I fought to catch my breath.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
The force said it had started sharing data with Apple to more closely track whether stolen handsets get reconnected to a phone network after they are taken.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Founded as a ground wood pulp mill on the banks of Finland’s Nokianvirta River in 1865, the company evolved through rubber and cables before it became known for mobile handsets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
He found that three mobile phone handsets ordered by the Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley MP were ultimately "claimable business costs".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
That perception has been fair, since most revenue still comes from handsets and licensing, and new markets have stayed mostly off the income statement.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Ten minutes later, Kyle, Akimi, and Sierra had stripped the sproingy wires off a couple of telephone handsets.
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
Despite the lead and fumes, Linotypes resulted in far safer and faster conditions than handsetting, and hot-lead composition quickly become the rule for books and periodicals.
From Economist ● Mar. 30, 2018
With hobbies running from gardening to handsetting type, Boyd shares some of Jefferson's own tastes.
From Time Magazine Archive
