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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-c
by Sharlin 1y 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
- accrual 1y agoIn some ways one could also include a Game Boy in that list!
- dude250711 1y agoMeh, I'd rather had been born to same parents but as a USA boomer baby.
- glandium 1y agoPhones 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.
- bri3d 1y agoIn the US we also briefly got this really cursed thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO
- promiseofbeans 1y agoSome 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.
- bilsbie 1y agoLet’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?
- JdeBP 1y agoYou're racing ahead. I'm still trying to find the slot where we are supposed to be putting those cassettes in to play them. (-:
- Sharlin 1y agoStills 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)
- OJFord 1y agoNot forgetting the humble home phone, and car phone.