handset
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He gets barely 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
Sales slid 20% in the company’s handset segment, offsetting increases in its automotive and Internet of Things divisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
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
A little sticky, but he lifted the handset easy enough.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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Some handsets have seen prices nearly double as rising memory and other component costs push up production expenses, it says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Qualcomm raised its fiscal 2029 target for nonhandset revenue to $40 billion, up from a prior target of $22 billion, and said handsets would account for only about a third of chip revenue by then.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Yet the company may now have a proof point after landing a deal with a major hyperscaler, while its revenue targets show it can diversify its business away from its chip business for handsets.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
The police force revealed on Thursday that it had started sharing data with Apple to build a "global picture" of what happens to stolen handsets, including whether they are being reconnected to a network.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 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
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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
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