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Ask Slashdot: Best Use For an Old Smartphone?

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday August 23, 2012 @03:06PM from the what's-old-is-new dept.

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?"

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Re:Replace the batteries by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-23 16:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

Intelligent people don't even HAVE a TV.
Intelligent people have a TV but don't watch what you watch. You're confusing the device for the content.
They don't need a plan by opentunings · 2012-08-24 00:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

Lots of organizations donate old cell phones to the underprivileged. The point is that the telcos are required to accept calls from cellphones dialing 911, regardless of whether they have a plan or not. As long as the old cell phone has a charge and a signal, it provides security to folks who might have (say) a problem with spousal abuse, or...