viewphone n.

When Shelby reached his apartment, he immediately donned his laboratory smock and set to work. But he had scarcely finished mounting a tiny coil of wire within the hand-grip of his weapon, when the view-phone bell rang insistently. The inventor pulled off his smock and threw it over the materials on his work bench, so that the person at the other end of the view-phone connection, whoever it was, would not be able to see them. Then he snapped the television and audio switches. The mists in the view-plate cleared, and there before him, as real as though he were actually in the room, sat Hekalu Selba. The Martian’s eyes gleamed with suppressed excitement.

He cut in another viewphone circuit. ‘Get me Chief Engineer Stevens at North American Power-Air,’ he said sharply.

I mean that he will not talk over the viewphone under any circumstances whatsoever, to you or to anyone. He says that he is sorry not to accommodate you, but that he is opposed to everything of that nature—cameras, cinécams, television, and so forth.

And I turned off the viewphone, got up and walked out, leaving the others gobbling into emptiness behind me.

He had begun to consider putting his notes away again when the wall viewphone chimed. [Ibid. 22/2] He was bitterly disappointed…because a strange girl with silver lips had not looked at him and developed a ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ syndrome. Across a crowded viewphone channel.

She asked Mary to keep an eye on forex trading and went to her office to use the view[-]phone.

Back safely on the Top Level in my conapt, I checked first on Oberon with the viewphone. She was not back.

A block away he saw a ViewPhone booth and stepped inside…. A moment later a pixyish looking brunette, another Carol, appeared on the screen.