A dozen gadgets that were killed by the Cellphone

[Reeducation]

Paved roads suck, especially when you are running on them without shoes. Road kills.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Road kills.

AAAUUUGH

[nurbldoff]

Books? Who ever reads books on their mobile phone?

I´ve yet to own a phone with a camera or mp3 player of passable quality, or even a single game that could compare to a dedicted games machine. In fact, using the phone as an mp3 player always seemed a bit stupid to me, since it will mean that you're draining your phone's battery by listening to it.

In some sense the article has a point because the mobile phone is pretty much a computer these days, or getting there. But sooner or later the phone will just merge with wireless internet (it's already happening) and then calling it a "phone" will be pretty arbitrary. Is your computer a phone if you use skype a lot?

It's more like all these devices are merging into one package (the pocket computer) than the phone taking over. The computer taking over other tasks is hardly news.

[Triple Zero]

I´ve yet to own a phone with a camera or mp3 player of passable quality, or even a single game that could compare to a dedicted games machine. In fact, using the phone as an mp3 player always seemed a bit stupid to me, since it will mean that you're draining your phone's battery by listening to it.

it is handy if you're running. you want music, but you also want to have your phone (for emergencies etc), yet you want to carry as less stuff as possible.

[Richter]

Good articles, but I'd re - title them "10 gadgets cell phones COULD kill". 
My cell phone came free with the minimal calling plan I'm on, and it has far more functions than I ever use.  In theory, it could be phone / camera / mp3 player / web browser / instant messenger / text messenger / digital television, but these functions are cut off at the knees by the fact that I'd have to shell out more money for EACH LITTLE FUNCTION.  All of them are unselected and inactive, for that fact that I don't want another line on a monthly bill. 

Hypocritical, I'll admit.  I won't pay $10 a month to add a function to a device I already own, eyeing the service proprietors with ire and suspicion, but I WILL shell out for a device that does so independently.  Then again, with the separate devices, I can TURN THEM OFF.  I don't want the whole world of technological possibility trying to cram into life through my single cellular orifice.  Music, internets, etc. can be selectively ignored, powered down or left at home by the curmudgeonly whims which guide me.  (The separate devices also have the edge of doing them BETTER, as most dedicated tools do.)

My cell phone could kill them all, if they ever deign to drop the price for equipment and service with iPhone clones.
Presently, if I want a multifunction device, I will duct tape the music player to the tiny Netbook PC, and if anyone questions me, I will go Ellen Ripely on their ass; leveling my cobbled contraption at their bloated cellular appendage screaming "GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH!" 

[Kai]

 


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Wait, you two are joking right? Right?

[Golden Applesauce]

Calculator?  Really?

I've yet to see a cell phone that does derivatives or integrals, symbolically or otherwise.

[Richter]

It's for the sub - set of humanity that doesn't need scientific calculators, don't like doing tip calcualtion in their heads, and are too cheap to round up.

[Kai]

I use a scientific calculator for all mathematical purposes, even balancing my checkbook. A basic function calculator doesn't cut it for me anymore, and hasn't since high school.

[Payne]

Things I use my current phone for:

Receiving calls and text messages (I never send, because I never have any credit on it)

Phonebook of useful numbers

Alarm Clock/ Watch/ Calender

Flashlight

Jotting down little thoughts and reminders if I don't have pen and paper handy.

Previously, I had phones with cameras and fancy assed games, but this phone does me just fine now.


Edit: Oh, and I also set the alarm on it and place it under the cat to go off when she's sleeping. Because it makes me laugh. I'm a bad bad man.

[Vene]

Two things, first what I read:

Things I use my current phone for:

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Fleshlight

Second, I wonder how well that would actually sell.

[Payne]

See, here we just call it a torch, regardless of it not being a burning brand. I was going to call it that but didn't because I've had people comment on it before. And now you've ruined it.

[Cramulus]

My superintendent has a beeper.

A BEEPER.


Anybody remember those crappy little things? You could get one from the "beeper huts" that you could find in malls during 1996 and 1997.

[Iason Ouabache]

Only drug dealers carry beepers.
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[Rumckle]

it is handy if you're running. you want music, but you also want to have your phone (for emergencies etc), yet you want to carry as less stuff as possible.

2nded, I barely have enough pockets as it is

Also my cell has trig functions in its calc, just in case *shrugs*