Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone?

zaba writes "The original iPhone was a dream come true for me. Phone, camera, mp3 player and data all in one device. It had more cpu and memory than my first computer! Several generations of smartphones later, my wife and I have some random smartphones (some iPhone, some Android) lying around. Between privacy concerns, bad batteries, etc. these phones are not worthy of donation. So, I ask you, Slashdot readers, have you done anything fun with an old smartphone? Any suggestions/ideas?"

Comments

Re:Use it as a server

[Nerdfest]

This package actually does a few more things as well ( DLNA, DNS, Dynamic DNS, Email, FTP(S), Proxy, SMS Gateway, Time, HTTP(S), (secure) WebDAV), and the performance seems pretty impressive for what it is. Of course, the power consumption is really low as well. I'm pretty damn impressed by the app in general.

Re:Burn them

[ozmanjusri]

Burn the mother fuckers already, and get on with your life.

Yeah, but those of us who don't have a life can use half-dead Android phones as Arduino controllers.

  Or we could use them with AndroUAV to control our own drones.

http://www.amarino-toolkit.net/

http://developer.android.com/tools/adk/index.html

http://www.instructables.com/id/Androino-Talk-with-an-Arduino-from-your-Android-d/

http://code.google.com/p/androuav/

Re:Burn them

[crafty.munchkin]

I'd use them as a device to stream music somewhere in the house. A bathroom stereo system, maybe put one out in the shed, with the added bonus of it having wifi ability to connect to the net if required.