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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-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

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Phones 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.

In the US we also briefly got this really cursed thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaFLO

Some 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.

Not forgetting the humble home phone, and car phone.

In some ways one could also include a Game Boy in that list!

I did :) I think you caught me between edits.

More than just some: an iPhone is my preferred device for playing games for Nintento portables. Literally gameboy games.

Let’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?

You're racing ahead. I'm still trying to find the slot where we are supposed to be putting those cassettes in to play them. (-:

Stills 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)

Meh, I'd rather had been born to same parents but as a USA boomer baby.

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