- Radio - I can listen to just about anything and stream live broadcasts
- Tapes / CDs / Albums / 8-tracks - a thing of the past but on demand I can find any song, genre, artist or track - WOW.
- Weather - not only can I get the forecast but I can get real time radar (who needs Al Roker - by the way I liked him when he was fat better)
- TV - I can watch sports, music videos, tv shows, bloopers (aka youtube), and random things people upload (PORN)
- Books - Reading your favorite book on your phone is easy. And when you take a break, you can pick up where you left off on your iPad or Kindle
- Calculator
- Alarm Clock
- Flashlight - really?
- Camera - a really good one that doesn't use film and automatically backs up to some mysterious hard drive in the sky
- Games - from driving games, heads up, building things in MineCraft to trivia and flinging birds through the air - there are nearly endless entertaining possibilities
- Timer - I can boil an egg perfectly every time...
- Ticket Broker - find and buy tickets to virtually any event at any time
- GPS Navigation - by car or by street, I can find my way around as long as I have a signal
- Telephone - Oh Yeah and I can speak with people
- Traffic - Real time traffic at my fingertips, really?
- Instant Messaging - Not that this was around 20 years ago but it's here today (naughty or nice)
- Word Processor - That is what we called them back in the day but you could also say typewriter....
- Email - What the heck is that? So commonplace today but so infantile 20 years ago.
- Photo Albums - No more faded and bent photos in your wallet, say hello to real time slide shows
- Video Camera - Remember Clark Griswald in European Vacation "I think he's going to pork her Russ."
- Police Scanner - Where's the Po Po?
- Juke Box
- Video Conferencing
- Online Shopping
- Chauffeur Service
- Instant Banking and payment center
- Rolodex
For Now,
David