The cellphone went through a period evolution
to become the smartphone we all carry around
today. It went from that big, bulky thing with a
long antenna to a paper thin (well, not really)
smart device that has replaced quite a lot of
gadgets we used to carry around.
Smartphones are smart, and they are really
getting smarter. Artificial Intelligence has
made possible what would have looked like a
scene from a science fiction movie two decades
ago. As much as the evolution of the
smartphone has its ugly sides , there’s no doubt
it simplified our lives in so many ways.
Without the smartphone, we would still be
carrying a lot of gadgets around. Here are
some of the things the smartphone has almost
— or already — killed.
*Digital camera
For professional photographers, the
smartphone will never replace a real DSLR
camera but for a lot of us amateurs, there’s no
need to get a digital camera anymore. OEMs
now know the importance of a great camera
on a smartphone and the introduction of
features like Optical Image Stabilization keeps
improving pictures taken with smartphones.
Photos taken with smartphones can even be
mistaken for DSLR shots.
The smartphone is killing the digital camera
market and that’s a fact. People still buy real
cameras, but the patronage would be way
more than what it is right now if not for
smartphones.
**Pocket Computer
Popularly know as “organizer” in Nigeria years
back, this was one of the gadgets we
millenials thought was cool. An organizer
served as your scientific calculator, your
reminder, your notebook, your address book
and more.
***Calculator
Calculator? Nobody uses them anymore… well,
maybe in the classroom. But in real life,
traders would rather calculate with their
smartphones and for day-to-day financial
audits, a lot of us depend on the calculator app
on our smartphones.
****Music Player
Remember the popular Sony Walkman? These
gadgets are dead thanks to the smartphone.
You can literally store thousands of music
tracks on your smartphone. The music app on
certain smartphones can fetch lyrics and even
download more songs. Why then should
anyone think of getting a portable music player
when the smartphone does everything?
******Handheld Game Console
Well, hardcore gamers will never take this. As
a matter of fact, some of these real gamers
believe mobile gaming sucks, but since a lot of
us are always on the go, gaming on mobile is
all we can do. The smartphone will never
replace PSP and Nintendo DS but trust me,
mobile gaming is a big deal and it has shrunk
the portable game console market.
*****Bedside Alarm Clock
Everyone used to rely on the bedside alarm
clock to wake up every morning but now? Of
course, one can safely assume that maybe one
in ten people still use it — old people and
those who chose not to use smartphones.
***** Pocket Radio
Who needs this when almost every Android
phone now comes with FM radio?
And even more gadgets…
There are many more gadgets the smartphone
has replaced and as time goes on and these
phones get smarter, more and more gadgets
may become extinct. What other gadget has
the smartphone replaced in your view?

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I guess you missed the portable GPS Navigation Systems

You are really on point

I see atm becoming outdated soon
I'm a freek of science fiction movies
I remembered watching a movie were touch screen is a fiction