Noun
videophone (plural videophones)
A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.
Synonyms: (science fiction) vidphone, viewphone, picturephone, visionphone
Coordinate terms: (mobile phone) photophone, smartphone, feature phone, beeper, pager, email appliance
Coordinate terms: (landline phone) videotext terminal, fax machine, internet appliance
(dated) A cellphone with such capability. Used to distinguish from stills-only camera cellphones and camera-less cellphones.
Coordinate terms: smartphone, featurephone, cameraphone, photophone
If their boat crosses the invisible border line in the lake, upon returning to the American shore, passengers will have to "drive to a local government reporting station and pose for pictures" to Customs officers by videophone. Source: Internet
Vostok was based on an earlier videophone project which used two cameras, with persistent LI-23 iconoscope tubes. Source: Internet