handset
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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
The company developed a prototype handset shown to investors, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
But unbeknownst to him, his handset was still connected to the Bluetooth speaker.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Each handset contains about three grams of them -- more than 3,700 tonnes overall for the 1.24 billion devices sold worldwide in 2024.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
He has not keyed his handset in hours, which means he is asleep.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Iridium currently operates a 66-satellite constellation in low-Earth orbit, using it to connect handsets and other devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 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
Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has asked the home secretary for legislation to make phone companies publish data on stolen devices, and to enforce measures rendering handsets effectively unusable.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Apple has sold more than 3.1 billion iPhones since the handsets debuted in 2007, generating about $2.3 trillion in revenue, according to Counterpoint Research.
From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 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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