They started out as telephones. Much like the ones we’d used in our homes for decades. There was only one big difference: they were portable. When cell phones first came to the mass market, they were a huge novelty simply because they allowed us to talk on the phone in our cars. Today, cell phones (now actually considered “mobile devices) can do more than we ever imagined back then. In fact, more often than talking on them, we probably use our cells for other things, like…
 
 E-mailing. As if e-mail wasn’t already enough of an addiction, as many of us have checked it obsessively on our PC’s throughout the day for years now. But now that we can take care of our e-mail correspondence on our phones, we don’t even have to have a computer or an Internet connection to clean out our inboxes.
 
 Video Games. Today’s cell phone video games leave the Ataris and Nintendos of years past in the dust. And we don’t even need a television or console to play them. Not that even the simplest cell phone games, like Bubble Breaker or Snake, aren’t entertaining enough!
 
 Photos. Many of today’s cell phones have cameras with such high megapixel counts that they make carrying a camera separately unnecessary. The Samsung Omnia, for example, has a 5-megapixel camera that rivals many point-and-click digital models.
 
 Movies. Today’s cell phones contain tiny hard drives with enough memory to hold feature films that we can watch while traveling or waiting for our cars to be repaired. We can even record mini-movies of our own, complete with audio! We can also send them to other cell phones to share them with our friends.
 
 And of course, there’s also navigation, texting, web browsing, reading books, listening to music, maintaining address books, keeping track of schedules, viewing documents…

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