RE: Your phone has replaced almost everything sold in this 1991 Radio Shack ad
January 17, 2014 at 1:09 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2014 at 1:11 am by Ryantology.)
(January 17, 2014 at 12:48 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Not quite. The phone does not:I would argue that, in the case of the first item, every phone I've ever purchased included headphones as a basic accessory (which was not the case with that portable CD player, I might add).
- in and of itself, contain headphones. (Though they're easy to find.)
- Play CDs (although it can play more music than a CD contains, even if it's not big enough for my music library.)
- Detect radar
- have a CB Radio.
- contain Hi-FI speakers. (And I'm sure that without a couple accessories, it won't even drive one.)
To be fair, I'm sure there's an app for the third and fourth items.
In the case of the second, if one says that the main point of a CD player is to play music, well, phones may very well be the biggest reason why reason portable CD players are obsolete. Heck, standalone MP3 players are being rendered obsolete by phones.
There are Android apps that functionally emulate the functions of both CBs and radar detectors.
That just leaves the speakers, which accounts for the 'almost'.
