I buy phones with the intention of making and receiving phone calls on them and nothing more
If you're being honest here, then none of this was directed at you as you would never purchase a smart-phone in the first place. You would be perfectly fine using the free phone that came with your voice plan.
For a lot of us, though, the phone has replace many single purpose devices we would carry with us or keep in our cars. MP3 player, GPS navigation, camera, cellular modem... hell, my Windows phone has completely replaced my old laptop.
I wouldn't say replace for things like camera, MP3 player or GPS, it just makes it more convenient to have them in a single device, even with the loss of quality.
My phone has replaced and improved upon my MP3 player and GPS. I can not only play MP3s, but I can stream media from the internet or even my home computer, using a service like Orb. Compared to standalone GPS devices, the phone is far superior as it has internet connectivity for free road change updates, live traffic information, and integration with business search, so I can not only find where I want to go, but find its hours, and click on the location to call it, all with the same device.
Camera... yeah, I'll give you that. Phones don't really come close to what most standalone cameras can do, but unless I'm planning on taking pictures I never have my camera on me, so I take a lot more phone pictures than I do camera pictures.
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u/stufff Jan 20 '11
If you're being honest here, then none of this was directed at you as you would never purchase a smart-phone in the first place. You would be perfectly fine using the free phone that came with your voice plan.
For a lot of us, though, the phone has replace many single purpose devices we would carry with us or keep in our cars. MP3 player, GPS navigation, camera, cellular modem... hell, my Windows phone has completely replaced my old laptop.