Yes, your phone can do everything that this mirror can and more. Well, except work as a mirror. The entire point of this is that this is a household object tha

Yes, your phone can do everything that this mirror can and more. Well, except work as a mirror. The entire point of this is that this is a household object that you need anyway, but that it leaks information that might be useful to you. So you would skip the step of taking out your phone and checking xyz. Yes, you'll only save 30 seconds or so of your time. But that's every day and that's one step you don't have to remember to do.