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Originally Posted by Astrakan
They can't even send text messages?
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Of course, but that's been built into the standard [1] forever (literally, it's mentioned in the earliest drafts). A mobile phone [1], for all intents and purposes, has always had the ability to both make calls and send texts.
But you know what's gone away, far as I know? Pagers. Of course they were never very big on this site of the pond anyway.
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I meant car radios only, with no CD or tape player.
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The point is this: if my specialist device gets features added, whether I need them or not, but otherwise remains unchanged this is not an issue. My phone has a camera? Great, I don't use it, it doesn't replace my digital SLR, but it's still a phone. My car radio has a CD slot? I may or may not use it, but this doesn't take away from the AM/FM reception capabilities.
The same is
not true for ereaders. Games on my ereader? I don't have to use them, and it's still an eink display, with great battery life. Which is not true for tablets, even if they do have a Kindle app installed.
[1] GSM at the very least