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Sharlin 4 days ago

Additional 1991 gadgets you now have in your phone:

- Color TV (screen's a bit tight though)

- VCR

- Pager

- GPS (very recent and expensive in 1991)

- In-car navigation (just barely available in 1991)

- Portable cassette player

- Portable video game console (GameBoy launched in 1989)

- Modem and sound card for the Tandy

- SGI workstation for rendering 3D graphics

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glandium 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Phones in Japan used to receive actual TV. Well, slightly different, but still directly from the waves rather than the internet. Phones used to receive AM and FM, too.

	▲	promiseofbeans 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some still can! Usually more low-mid teir devices. Some of the higher end ones (such as my phone, which is how I know this) have the AM/FM signal processor built into their SoC, but the pins aren't wired to an antena.
	▲	bri3d 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In the US we also briefly got this really cursed thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO

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OJFord 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not forgetting the humble home phone, and car phone.

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accrual 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In some ways one could also include a Game Boy in that list!

	▲	Sharlin 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I did :) I think you caught me between edits.
	▲	yepitwas 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		More than just some: an iPhone is my preferred device for playing games for Nintento portables. Literally gameboy games.

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bilsbie 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Let’s have some fun with this:

Newspaper

Classifieds

Phone book

Rolodex

Photo album

ATM?

Health tracker?

Translator

Dictionary

Thesaurus

Notebook

Scanner

Compass

Flashlight

Sears catalog?

	▲	Sharlin 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Stills camera! Somehow that wasn't yet mentioned. Calendar Egg timer Stopwatch Wrist watch Calendar Encyclopedia Star map and ephemeris TV/stereo etc remote control Heating/AC etc remote control Credit+debit card Language learning cassettes Books Paper maps (in general, not just for car navi) Keys and key cards Bird, plant, insect, mushroom etc guide Level and tape measure (kind of)
	▲	JdeBP 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You're racing ahead. I'm still trying to find the slot where we are supposed to be putting those cassettes in to play them. (-:

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dude250711 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Meh, I'd rather had been born to same parents but as a USA boomer baby.