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I think the word processor is about the only device that has been outmoded by the swiss-army-knife approach.
But if you think about it, a word processor is basically a typewriter plus some basic computing features. It makes sense you end up with a computer instead. Typewriters are pretty much gone though so I would count that as one.
Cellphones remain - smartphones are booming, but lots of people still have a more basic featurephone.
Pagers are a good one but still in use by some, but I still had a pager for work up until last year. I think it's still in the drawer - just most of the time we take the cellphone instead.
You'd think mp3 players would be replaced by smartphones, but there's still lots of them. I personally don't like using my cellphone as an mp3 player but I don't play music much any more, so I'm managing.
I think PDAs have been bumped by smartphones (sure, you can find a stray model or two, but they are pretty much dead). Then again a smartphone is basically a cell phone + PDA...
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