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What has the iPhone replaced?

What do you no longer need now that you have an iPhone? (Pick all that apply!)

  • A landline telephone

    Votes: 47 61.8%
  • A camera (video or still)

    Votes: 36 47.4%
  • An mp3 player or portable radio

    Votes: 67 88.2%
  • A memo pad, checkbook or diary

    Votes: 46 60.5%
  • A book or magazine

    Votes: 34 44.7%
  • Any number of board games and/or video games

    Votes: 35 46.1%
  • A GPS unit and/or a paper map

    Votes: 47 61.8%
  • A voice recorder

    Votes: 35 46.1%
  • A laptop (at least most of the time)

    Votes: 32 42.1%
  • Something else

    Votes: 13 17.1%

  • Total voters
    76

Brickman

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My iPhone 3G replaced my Treo 755P, iPod Nano, kept me from buying a GPS unit, and has all but replace my Macbook.

Well, not exactly replaced my Macbook. Truthfully it has kept me from buying a Netbook (i.e. Asus eeePC) for short trips. I use to take my laptop for vacations and short business trips, but not any more. Unless I am doing a presentation, need to do some "heavy lifting", or am gone for a week or more, my Macbook stays at home. Usally in my daughters room. :rolleyes:

In fact for most browsing at night on the couch or back deck, my iPhone is my Netbook.:D
 

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Replaces everything on the list for me.
I'd never get rid of my desktop computer, I LOVE the desktop experience.
But the iPhone most certainly replaced my netbook, except for recordning YouTube videos because I still think a front-facing camera is needed for video blogging. They missed a whole market this year in my opinion, all the big YouTubers have iPhones... Think about how incredibly happy they'd be if this year the iPhone could record videos from a front-facing camera? Maybe in the proper 16:9 aspect ratio? Please Apple???.. Please? :(

But anyway yeah it replaced everything for me on a basic level.
 

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