The birth of smartphones revolutionized the way they communicate, play, think, surf the internet and more. Never before has a single device has the capability to replace so many other items. As technology becomes smaller, more efficient, and better with every release. They shall explore what the smartphone replaced and what it will replace in the near future.
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Albert Einstein’s Quote On Technology
What Albert Einstein said is true, “I fear the day that technology will surpass their human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” [ This quote is unverified, most probably a mis-quote and not from Einstein himself ]
The 50 Things To Be Replaced by Smartphone
Here are 50 things that will replace or already replaced by the smartphone. If you happen to know any, do drop a comment.
| Items | Note | |
|---|---|---|
 | Camera | Canon and Nikon killed Kodak, FujiFilm, Afga and more when they roll out their digital cameras, life is a circle. |
 | Cam-recorder | also known as video recorder |
 | Radio | |
 | Portable Music Player | |
 | eBook Reader | |
 | Calculator | |
 | Voice Recorder | |
 | GPS | Replaced physical maps |
 | Flash Light | also known as torch light |
 | Leveler | For construction, to check the level of a smooth surface. |
 | Scanner | |
 | Compass | |
 | Portable Gaming Device | Smartphone is the biggest and most profitable portable gaming device, selling more games than Nintendo DS |
 | Game Console Controller | via Bluetooth for Xbox or Playstation controller. |
 | Barcode Scanner | also known as QR reader |
 | Credit Card Scanner | Requires an add-on hardware but this is way cheaper than getting those cc machines. |
 | USB Thumbdrive | Flash drive, cloud pretty much kill off flash drive, just upload to dropbox. |
 | Portable Video Player | |
 | Walkie Talkie | via bluetooth |
 | Traditional Landline Phone | |
 | Clock / Alarm Clock | |
 | Wrist Watch | Unless iWatch by Apple brings back the trend, wrist watch will be a niche market |
 | Timer | |
 | Books | Dictionary / Encyclopedia |
 | Calendar | |
 | Notepad / Sketchpad | |
 | Newspaper | |
 | Photo Album | |
 | Contact List / Phone Book | |
 | Board Games | Pretty much every games is dead, except for card gambling games. |
 | Watching Movies | TV is for blu-ray high resolution, most videos are good enough on a small screen. |
 | Land-line Internet | Replaced by mobile internet, why subscribe both? |
 | Checking eMail | Central mailing system, who check individually? |
 | Surfing Internet | |
 | Video Chatting | Replacing webcams |
 | Thermostat | |
 | Measuring Tapes | Point & Measure (iOS) or Smart Measure (Android) |
 | Guitar Tuner | For guitarist to fine tune their guitar strings |
 | Light Meter | For photographer to measure the lux |
 | ATM / Debit / Credit Cards | With NFC and cashless payment |
 | Airline Tickets | |
 | Business Cards | |
 | Remote Controller | It will be a universal controller for air-conds, tvs, home theater and more. |
 | Car Keys | Possibly in the near future |
 | Paper Money / Coins | Circulation will greatly reduce but not diminish in the near future |
 | Cable TV | With Internet TV, who needs cable? |
 | Laptops | Laptop kills desktop, now it is payback time. |
 | Communication Skills | Instead of bringing people closer, smartphone when used wrongly only create unnecessary distance. |
Are Smartphones Making Us Anti-social?
Written by/Starring Charlene deGuzman, directed by Miles Crawford. “I Forgot My phone” is a simple video on how much better life is if you ‘forgot’ your phone.
Thailand has an equally amazing public service advertisement on anti-social titled “Disconnect to Connect”
Smartphones Usage
Taxi’s with Uber on your Smart Phone
That is more on software than hardware. Since smartphone is hardware, the right comparison would be another hardware.
Almost all the things on the list depends on some sort of software, so Dave is correct in a sense that calling a cab on a phone or hailing one on the street is so 1990!
I’m at a vacation in Saudi, and that is exactly what they do here. It’s more like: Screw Uber, I’m taking a taxi.
Anything paper based, as you no longer need to take printed material with you, including:
Printers (except for labels)
Magazines
Tourist/Visitor guides
User guides/manuals
Sheet music
Paper junk mail
Paper tickets
Diaries
Notepads
Landline internet (if data usage is low enough)
TVs
Sound systems (except for PA systems)
Once smartphones come with a built in teleporter, it will replace all forms of transportation. Even household chores and appliances will move to the cloud. Yep, there’ll be an app for getting your laundry or dishes done! Teleported to the cloud of course.
Does not replace a proper keyboard or software to write and illustrate.
A pedometer
A magnifying glass
There is a magnifier app available.
A compact mirror
Cardiac activators, cardiac monitors for remote patient care….there are a slew of products in the healthcare field about to be replaced.
I honestly feel sorry for you if you were gullible enough to believe that Einstein quote was something he actually said.
Some things are right but most of that list is pure BS.
One of the good things about smartphones is it might reduce electrical clutter in the home as i myself is all for mimilism!
Navigation system
“Never before a single device”. You are incorrect. A Personal Computer has offered as many things as a cellphone for approx 40 years and on a side-by-side basis still outstrips a cellphone for what it can do. Please if you’re gonna make generalist statements can you just keep it to Facebook or Twittter.
Sure, a car can be a table, a bed, a house, a storage space, a weapon, a heater, a source of light, and many more. But if the majority of people do not use all of these amazing features, then it is nothing more than a car.
Sure, how many people buy a TV adapter for their PC? or record video on their laptop’s webcam for their family trip? or install a radio adapter? Just like they say, the best camera is the one that is always with you – the smartphone, not the most powerful bulky DSLR. Thus, a PC may be more powerful but it is simply not portable enough for everyday usage.
Also, a smartphone is simply a mini computer in a portable form factor.
A PC is not a single device. It consists of the tower, a monitor, a keyboard, a mouse and generally speakers. That makes 5 devices at a minimum
Also, a stopwatch! Digital watches and some high-end mechanical watches had a built-in stopwatch, but for the vast majority of the history of watches, a stop-watch was a separate specialized piece of equipment that only did one thing (could only time duration but not tell you the time of day).
weather forecast,
banking,
street/train maps,
I have a few objections, even though a lot of this list is and probably will be correct.
Camera: for most casual use, yes. But I’ve yet to see a professional photographer using a smartphone.
Ebook reader: These fill another function other than just displaying books. They have an e-ink display, making them much more easy on the eyes.
Portable gaming device: The Nintendo Switch would like a word with you.
Video game controller: I shouldn’t even have to explain this one.
Notepad: Maybe in some cases. But typing long lists on a touch screen is absolutely horrible.
Smartphone use for professional images is on the rise, even though professional photographers hate to admit it.
The smartphone is a jack of all trades, and master of none. An absolutely horrid computer and a mediocre phone. Overpriced luxury status symbol that is best replaced with devices dedicated to a particular function that they do better than any smartphone ever will. Never mind the outrageous monthly cost to run the thing.
Replaced what? You and your ideologies? The smartphone companies want to replace YOU, if they could. It’s your money and your ability to buy/sell. If you’re not paying for their products, then YOU are the product. They profile us and the way we think, if the companies can, and the smartphone is the perfect device on which to do it. And they would love to spy on us and control every aspect of our lives. Some of this is quite scary, actually.
Sure, it is easy to connect your phone to your new air conditioner via WiFi or Bluetooth. But by doing so, they can monitor or even control your energy usage. All it would take is an excuse to make a quick reprogramming or software update. It’s convenient, but there’s a tradeoff. What you gain terms of convenience, you loose in terms of your independence and ability to use it freely without it being monitored. With so many devices becoming merged into one and/or becoming obsolete, there’s really nothing they can’t do anymore. We have nothing to rely on, unless you want to be spied on.
Through our materialism and desire for better technology, it looks like we’ve all been so naive as to fall for this scheme big tech has pulled on us. While it is not wrong to innovate and find a good solution for most products, they’ve ‘pulled the wool over our eyes’. If the trends for smartphones keep going the way they’re going, it’s going to get creepy really fast. Why, it even looks as if we’ve all but forgotten that there is even a God looking down on all this crookedness, so what difference does it make? A lot. But let us fear not.